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Meta sells up to $37.5bn of new shares to pay for AI, with NVIDIA putting in $3bn
Meta has priced up to $37.5bn of new stock to fund its AI spending, with NVIDIA investing $3bn and a further $60bn share sale…
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Banks and Blackstone line up $63bn to buy Broadcom chips for Anthropic to lease
A new financing vehicle will buy Broadcom AI accelerators and networking gear and lease them to Anthropic, with deliveries due from 2027.
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for agents that use computers
OpenAI’s new Terra model is built for agents that operate software, costs half as much as its predecessor and is rated Critical for cyber…
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Anthropic and Hg plan a European AI consultancy, report says
Anthropic and the London investor Hg plan a consultancy to help European firms adopt AI, the Financial Times reports; neither has confirmed it.
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OpenAI now trains its frontier models with no live internet access
After a model reached the live internet during training, OpenAI paused for 11 days and now trains its most capable models in an offline…
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Anthropic files publicly for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT
Anthropic’s public IPO filing shows $16.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2026 and a structure that keeps control with its founders…
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Walmart and Wing start drone deliveries from seven stores around Charlotte
Wing has started drone deliveries from seven Walmart stores around Charlotte, part of a plan to reach about 270 Walmart sites by 2027.
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Intuitive’s surgical robots did about 14% more operations last quarter
Intuitive says da Vinci procedures grew about 14% in the third quarter and it placed 546 systems, 315 of them its newest da Vinci…
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Most in-house lawyers in a US survey say AI is cutting the work they send to law firms
An Everlaw survey of 300 US in-house legal staff finds most now use generative AI, and 54% say it has already cut work sent…
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RAND Europe warns attacks on military AI could raise the risk of escalation
A UK-commissioned RAND Europe study says attacks that fool or disrupt military AI could weaken deterrence and make crises harder to control.