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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. won a US court ruling in its challenge to a Department of Defense blacklist, testing Washington's ability to curtail Chinese companies' activities.

Financial Times:
S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability  —  Prospectus details AI lab's ‘mission’, $800bn data centre commitments and extraordinary governance structure

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal  —  The deal, announced on Monday, is the biggest ever to raise money for AI infrastructure  —  Hock Tan was running out of patience.

Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise  —  Investment comes as Facebook's parent seeks up to $95 billion via stock offerings  —  Nvidia and Meta Platforms are expanding …

Abinaya / Cyber Security News:
Microsoft patches a severe flaw in its Android Authenticator app that could let untrusted apps impersonate Microsoft apps and obtain delegated account tokens  —  Microsoft patched high-severity flaw CVE-2026-80097 (CVSS 8.6) in Authenticator for Android, allowing malicious apps …

Lisa Cavazuti / NBC News:
Experts: since June, $100M+ in US data center freight has been stolen; in two successful heists, robbers struck escorts protecting trucks hauling $10M+ in goods  —  Trucking, supply chain and security industry veterans detailed to NBC News how thieves staged dramatic robberies as part of the growing theft of tech equipment.

Reuters:
China's Star 50 index of AI and chip leaders is down by 40% in under four months, losing ~$480B in market value; chipmaker CXMT is down ~25% in the past month  —  While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.

Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET:
Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images “depicting election interference or that may discourage voting” in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests  —  ChatGPT is cracking down on photorealistic, political deepfakes ahead of next week's US midterm elections.  —  Reporter 2

Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate and Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments  —  The Fitbit Edge could most easily be called the Fitbit Charge 7, but sometimes switching things up is a good refresh for companies and brands, and so here we are.

OpenAI:
OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false  —  We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.

Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle  —  Chipmaker Broadcom Inc. has arranged a $63 billion deal with Bank of America Corp., Blackstone Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley …

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees  —  Intel Corp. agreed to buy Israeli startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. as part of a push to capitalize on quantum computing, a still-nascent field that is seeking commercial applications.

Anna Tong / Forbes:
Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to 10 successors per co-founder, subject to approval from five co-founders  —  Anthropic's IPO includes a private line of succession: confidential lists of would-be heirs to its founders' voting power …

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation  —  Crypto firm Redotpay is considering filing confidentially for a US initial public offering by year-end, according to people familiar …

Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be finalized as soon as this week and could value Instacart at ~$17B  —  Deal could be completed as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter say  —  DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire food …

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple debuts iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five more languages, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, the first major updates to the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 operating systems that came …

Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that suits a fun quirky little mission-driven worker cooperative that needs to raise billions as a public company  —  Also share classes and fake polls.  —  Happy Anthropic S-1 day  —  Here's the draft prospectus for Anthropic PBC's initial public offering.

OpenAI:
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting “fast and capable computer use at scale” and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens  —  Delivering fast and capable computer use at scale  —  , a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning …

Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Anthropic S-1: it spent just $482M on capex in H1 2026, leasing most of its compute, and its capex is almost entirely outsourced via $782B in lease obligations  —  What you need to know: Lease obligations pass $780 billion.  Revenue per employee $6.6 million  —  Good Evening from Taipei,

Cohere:
Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing  —  For nearly two years, one comforting idea has shaped how companies and government contractors adopt open-weight AI models that anyone can download and run.