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Top storyEconomyThe Guardian

Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion

Tech firm announces two-part fundraising after Elon Musk warns hundreds of AI startups face collapse Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced plans for a $95bn (£71bn) fundraising to cover its AI expenditure, even as Elon Musk warned that funding for smaller players in the sector was

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EconomyTechCrunch

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

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SocietyMIT Technology Review

Will the real Anthropic please stand up

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays

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TechnologyThe Verge

The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site. The change comes days after The Verge reported that an AI agent could be used to take advantage of The RealRe

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TechnologyOpenAI

ChatGPT’s expanding world of work

Explore OpenAI Signals data on 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how people use ChatGPT for work and how usage changes over time.

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EconomyThe Verge

Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filing

Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its business, from how much its executives are making and plans for spending its IPO billions to the risks that could derail its ambitions. At more than 300

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PolicyTechCrunch

SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.

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