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  1. CNBC Technology
    AI score73

    Anthropic Pursues IPO Under Public Benefit Corporation Structure, Lawyers and Analysts Flag Investor Risks

    CNBC reports that Anthropic plans to list at a valuation of $1.5 trillion or higher, and its public benefit corporation (PBC) structure requires the board to balance public interest with shareholder returns. Lawrence Hamermesh, a Delaware corporate lawyer, noted that PBC law defines the word "balance" vaguely, and that directors' defenses citing the pursuit of public benefit purposes would make accountability harder. Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney said that an independent trust electing a majority of directors, and seven co-founders holding 50.1% of voting power through a single Class F share, will limit shareholders' influence over the company's operations.

    #Industry news#Anthropic

  2. CNBC Technology
    AI score71

    Alphabet's earnings miss expectations, search revenue growth slows to 12%

    Alphabet's third-quarter earnings fell short of expectations across the board, with search and other revenue up 12% year over year to about $63 billion, missing expectations for a second consecutive quarter, while search query volume growth was the highest in five years. Search revenue growth slowed from 19% in the first quarter to 17% in the second quarter and then to 12% this quarter, with the company citing exchange rates as the biggest factor. The stock fell about 13% on Thursday after the earnings release, its largest one-day drop on record, and free cash flow for the quarter was negative $9 billion. Cloud revenue doubled to nearly $31 billion, with cloud backlog of about $560 billion.

    #Industry news#Google#OpenAI

  3. CNBC Technology
    AI score56

    Microsoft cuts annual capital expenditure to $170 billion, Alphabet maintains guidance of $195 billion to $205 billion

    Microsoft lowered its annual capital expenditure forecast from $175 billion to $170 billion, while Alphabet maintained its guidance of $195 billion to $205 billion; the spending figures for both companies came in below analyst expectations. Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said that third-party GPU suppliers have experienced delays, and some available compute capacity will be pushed back to the first half of 2027; Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi said that external compute capacity only came online at the end of the third quarter, and Alphabet's shares fell about 10% after hours. Shares of CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN and Oracle fell after the earnings releases, and Gartner predicts that by 2030, 80% of neocloud companies will be acquired or cease operations.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  4. CNBC Technology
    AI score55

    ServiceNow stock plunges 27% after earnings, worst single-day performance since its IPO

    ServiceNow shares fell 27% on Thursday, marking the worst single-day performance on record, after the company's third-quarter results fell short of expectations, reigniting market fears about AI disruption. Revenue for the quarter rose more than 20% year over year to $4.11 billion, roughly in line with LSEG analysts' expectation of $4.10 billion, but adjusted earnings per share of $1.00 came in below the $1.02 expected. Although the company slightly raised its full-year 2026 subscription revenue forecast to $15.78 billion to $15.79 billion, with net new AI average contract value growing 65%, Citi analyst Tyler Radke noted that the investment in its newly formed forward-deployed engineering team has yet to deliver immediate returns, and the market will have to wait until next year to see an inflection point.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  5. CNBC Technology
    AI score63

    Microsoft plans to issue $25 billion in bonds to support AI infrastructure expansion

    Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to issue $25 billion in bonds, using its S&P AAA rating to finance infrastructure expansion. Management has set a 2026 capital expenditure target of $170 billion to meet demand from customers such as Anthropic and OpenAI. The company said the net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, share repurchases, acquisitions, and repayment of existing debt. The offering is expected to close on November 4. Microsoft's earnings report on Wednesday showed positive free cash flow, while Alphabet's free cash flow was negative for the second consecutive quarter, and Meta and Amazon also reported negative free cash flow this week; Oracle announced a new $10 billion bond issuance plan the same day.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  6. Rohan Paul
    AI score64

    TechCrunch says that after Anthropic's IPO, public shareholders will have almost no say over the board

    TechCrunch reports that Anthropic's IPO will give public shareholders almost no say over board membership. Its long-term benefit trust holds Class T shares, which can elect and remove a majority of directors, and its members include Ben Bernanke; the 7 co-founders jointly hold another class of shares, with most of them controlling 50.1% of shareholder voting rights and 3 board seats. The board's nominating committee can block the trust's choice of 1 designated director or removal without cause, and refer that decision to an employee vote; founder control can be voluntarily ended 10 years after listing, or automatically terminated when there are fewer than 3 founders.

    #Industry news#Anthropic#OpenAI

  7. Rohan Paul
    AI score60

    Cognition Receives Investment Offers at $70 Billion to $80 Billion Valuation

    Cognition has received investor offers valuing it at $70 billion to $80 billion and is seriously considering closing a funding round before the end of the year, but negotiations are still at an early stage and terms may change. The offers came just weeks after Cognition raised more than $2 billion in September at a $48 billion valuation. At $70 billion to $80 billion, investors would be paying roughly 78 to 89 times its revenue, up from 53 times at the $48 billion valuation. The range would also exceed the $60 billion SpaceX paid in stock to acquire Cursor parent Anysphere.

    #Industry news#Agents

  8. Rohan Paul
    AI score81

    Anthropic IPO filing shows $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments

    Anthropic's IPO filing shows it holds $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments, a scale exceeding that of Amazon and Microsoft; among U.S. non-bank companies, only Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet hold more, and it exceeds the combined total of Nvidia and Apple. Its cash and equivalents rose from $17.4 billion at the end of 2025 to $112.4 billion as of June 30, with interest income of $11 billion in the first half of the year, higher than its operating loss of $693 million. Over the same period, undiscounted obligations for leases not yet commenced rose from $50.2 billion to $321.4 billion, with an additional $265.6 billion in fixed or minimum guaranteed commitments; after June 30, it signed new agreements with approximately $245 billion in minimum payments, and Anthropic said it may settle some leases by issuing convertible bonds rather than cash.

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    #Industry news#Anthropic

  9. Rohan Paul
    AI score60

    Oracle expects free cash flow of at least $30 billion in fiscal 2029

    At its investor day, Oracle set a target of expecting free cash flow of at least $30 billion in fiscal 2029, whereas investors had previously expected a negative figure. In fiscal 2026, the company consumed $23.7 billion in free cash flow to build AI data centers for customers including OpenAI, and this year it plans capital expenditure of $90 billion to $95 billion. CFO Hilary Maxson said free cash flow will turn positive in the second half of fiscal 2028, provided that capital expenditure peaks in fiscal 2027 and fiscal 2028 and then declines and new capacity begins generating revenue. Oracle also set a cap of $20 billion on new financing through fiscal 2030, split equally between equity and debt, after having completed a $20 billion stock offering. After the announcement, the stock rose as much as 9.6%, while the shares had fallen 33% year to date as of Tuesday.

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  10. Rohan Paul
    AI score63

    Microsoft Azure quarterly revenue grew 48% year-over-year to $33.2 billion, with shares up about 4% after hours

    Microsoft Azure revenue grew 48% year-over-year to $33.2 billion, beating analysts' expectation of $32.3 billion and driving Microsoft shares up about 4% after hours. Data center spending for the quarter was $45.2 billion, below Microsoft's own expectation of more than $50 billion due to construction delays, while free cash flow fell 27% year-over-year to $18.6 billion. Signed future revenue reached $677 billion, up 73% year-over-year and slightly below the previous quarter's $678 billion; Microsoft did not update its paid Copilot seat figures, last reported at 30 million in July. Microsoft is offering buyout packages to up to 60,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India to control costs, after its total headcount had already fallen 2% year-over-year.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Industry news#Microsoft

  11. Rohan Paul
    AI score68

    Google Cloud quarterly revenue up 103% year-over-year to $30.7 billion

    Google Cloud revenue grew 103% year-over-year to $30.7 billion, while cloud business operating income more than tripled to $11.1 billion, driven mainly by demand for AI infrastructure. Google's model APIs currently process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, more than 4 times the level a year ago, and the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users. TPU chip sales are making a substantive contribution to cloud growth; Oracle has begun offering TPUs, and OpenAI is reportedly also purchasing them, but Google expects most TPU revenue to materialize only by 2027; AI data center spending pushed free cash flow to a negative of more than $9 billion, wider than last quarter's $5.9 billion shortfall, while shared AI research costs rose 71% year-over-year to $7.7 billion.

    #Industry news#Google#English text is being prepared.

  13. Rohan Paul
    AI score60

    ServiceNow Beats Earnings Expectations, Yet Stock Still Falls 19% After Hours

    In the September quarter, ServiceNow's revenue grew 20.5% year over year to $4.106 billion, exceeding its own quarterly target, but the stock still fell 19% after hours as the market worried that AI agents are eroding its per-seat SaaS business. Signed revenue for the next 12 months grew 20.5% year over year to $13.65 billion, and the company expects that growth rate to slow to 18.5% this quarter, while total revenue guidance is about $4.25 billion, up about 23%. AI transaction volume grew 80% year over year, and the 2026 AI annual contract value target was raised from $1 billion in January to $1.7 billion, but it remains small compared with the expected subscription revenue of about $15.77 billion in 2026.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  14. Rohan Paul
    AI score61

    Microsoft returns to the US bond market, planning to issue at least $25 billion in bonds

    Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is returning to the US bond market for the first time since its $17 billion bond issuance in 2017, planning to raise at least $25 billion through up to 10 tranches. Its 40-year bond pricing is close to the long-term bonds of Alphabet and Amazon, despite Microsoft having a higher AAA rating. Hyperscale cloud providers and data center developers have issued more than $313 billion in investment-grade bonds this year, nearly three times the total for 2025, driving global bond issuance to a record $6.61 trillion.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  15. Rohan Paul
    AI score67

    Oracle plans to increase computing capacity to approximately 10GW within three years, with AI remaining performance obligations rising to $638B

    At its Investor Day, Oracle laid out its computing expansion roadmap, increasing from approximately 1GW in FY25 to approximately 3GW in FY26, and plans to reach approximately 10GW by FY28. Its remaining performance obligations (RPO) increased from $138B at the end of FY25 to $638B at the end of FY26, adding approximately $500B in contracted business in one year. Based on Oracle's own estimate of approximately $11B to $16B in annual revenue per 1GW at full capacity, approximately 7GW corresponds to annual revenue of approximately $77B to $112B.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  16. Rohan Paul
    AI score67

    Texas grid audit freezes interconnection, Anthropic's Texas data center refinancing stalls

    Bloomberg reports that the Texas grid audit, rather than AI investment demand, has become the key constraint on refinancing for Anthropic's Texas computing campus. Banks led by Morgan Stanley have shelved a $5 billion to $7 billion junk bond issuance tied to the Texas data center leased by Anthropic. The pause stems from Governor Greg Abbott freezing approvals for new grid connections for data centers until Texas regulators complete the audit; this leaves 7 banks holding $14.2 billion in one-year loans already disbursed, with each bank exposed to about $2 billion.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic

  17. Rohan Paul
    AI score58

    Anthropic Discloses That About 250 Customers Spend Over $10 Million Annually

    Anthropic reports that over a 12-month period, about 250 customers spent more than $10 million on Claude. Every company in the Fortune 10 pays Anthropic more than $100,000 per year, and more than 50% of the Fortune 500 and more than 30% of the Global 2000 also reach this level. In 2025, customers paying more than $100,000 annually contributed 76% of Anthropic's revenue, compared with 90% in 2023.

    #Industry news#Anthropic

  18. Rohan Paul
    AI score72

    After the Hugging Face intrusion incident, OpenAI expands misalignment monitoring to frontier model training and deployment

    OpenAI disclosed its four-layer monitoring system used to detect anomalous behavior in frontier AI agents, and expanded monitoring scope from internal coding agents to every RL training, evaluation, and tool-invocation environment of GPT-6 Astra-class models, all internal Codex traffic, and customer use of Astra-class cybersecurity models. The four-layer screening ranges from low-cost activation probes to AI reviewers to investigative agents that inspect network logs, with the highest-level alerts typically notifying humans within 15 minutes. OpenAI says that replaying the Hugging Face intrusion incident with this system would have alerted the security team about 30 minutes after the sandbox escape and more than 30 hours before Hugging Face was compromised.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Safety / alignment#Agents#OpenAI

  19. Rohan Paul
    AI score58

    Trump Designates US Dependence on Imported Robots and Industrial Machinery as a National Security Threat

    Trump announced that US dependence on imported robots, industrial machinery, and their components constitutes a national security threat, on the grounds that foreign-sourced robots are inside manufacturing and defense systems and handle sensitive data, posing cybersecurity risks. The first round of response is not tariff increases but negotiations, with the Commerce Department and USTR required to report progress within 180 days; if no agreement is reached by then or the agreement is ineffective, the president may impose additional tariffs, levies, or quotas, or launch an investment incentive program for domestic production.

    #English text is being prepared.#Embodied AI

  20. Rohan Paul
    AI score67

    Anthropic accounts for 34.5% of SpaceX's Q3 revenue, becoming its largest customer

    Bloomberg disclosed that Anthropic accounts for 34.5% of SpaceX's Q3 revenue of $14.575 billion, surpassing the U.S. government to become its largest customer. SpaceX's filing labels this customer only as Customer B, and the related payments are for renting Nvidia GPU compute capacity at its Memphis data center; this compute leasing business also serves Google. Anthropic's S-1 filed on October 26 shows that its arrangement with SpaceX reaches up to $120.5 billion by 2029, while its commitments to Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are minimum values of at least $114.5 billion, $110 billion, and $44.9 billion, respectively.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic