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  1. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score60

    Qualcomm Announces Acquisition of PickNik to Expand Open Source Robotics and Physical AI Capabilities

    Qualcomm announced that it has agreed to acquire robotics software company PickNik, which has long maintained the open source robot manipulation framework MoveIt. Qualcomm stated that MoveIt will continue to be open source under its existing license, and it plans to integrate MoveIt and PickNik's commercial platform MoveIt Pro more closely into the Dragonwing robotics platform, while also advancing integration with the Arduino VENTUNO Q development board. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions.

    #Industry news#Open-source ecosystem#Embodied AI

  2. SiliconANGLE
    AI score76

    Meta plans to offer up to $95 billion in stock to finance AI data center construction

    Meta announced it will offer up to $95 billion in stock to finance data center projects, with the first round of transactions totaling $35 billion, about two-thirds of which comes from common stock, while NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in subscribing to up to $5 billion. The company will also issue $12.5 billion in Series A depositary shares, each representing one-twentieth of a Series A mandatory convertible preferred share, and these securities will convert into Meta common stock on August 15, 2029. Meta subsequently plans to raise up to an additional $60 billion through an at-the-market offering, with issuance beginning early next year. The funds will be used for four AI superclusters, among which the Hyperion campus in Louisiana is expected to provide 5 gigawatts of computing power, and Meta will also build 10 new power plants to meet its energy needs.

    Same story · 17 reports

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

  3. Unite.AI
    AI score94

    OpenAI Says Its Model Produced Results in Three Research Areas: Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics

    On October 26, 2026, OpenAI announced that its internal model had produced three research results in the fields of mathematics, computer science, and physics, including a counterexample to the long-standing Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) in computational complexity theory. In mathematics, the model provided a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in arbitrary dimensions, and thereby resolved the Kakeya conjecture and the Stein restriction conjecture; the output was obtained on October 18 and Lean formalization was completed the next day. The computer science result was verified by a group led by Russell Impagliazzo, Ramamohan Paturi, and Ryan Williams, and OpenAI agreed to disclose all raw data and fund related conferences; the physics result provided a rigorous existence proof for a four-dimensional quantum field theory with gauge fields and interacting fermions, and also included a pure Yang–Mills existence proof, with the group led by David Gross deciding to temporarily not disclose the AI-produced materials and to write up the results themselves.

    Same story · 17 reports

    #Papers/Research#Reasoning#OpenAI

  4. CNET
    AI score69

    Microsoft offers voluntary severance to about 60,000 employees, while ramping up AI infrastructure investment

    Microsoft announced that it is offering voluntary severance to about 60,000 employees at level 70 and below in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, roughly a quarter of its total workforce; the company did not say how many would ultimately accept. Microsoft previously disclosed that it would invest about $116 billion in property and equipment in fiscal 2026, mainly for cloud and AI data centers, about $50 billion more than in fiscal 2025. According to Bloomberg, the program covers teams including Xbox, Windows, Copilot and finance, but excludes some data center, sales and marketing personnel.

    Same story · 15 reports

    #Industry news#Microsoft

  5. BleepingComputer
    AI score74

    Former South Korean Penetration Tester Arrested for Stealing 8.2 Million Records Using ARTEX AI

    Seoul police arrested 7 suspects, among whom the main culprit, who had previously worked as a penetration tester, used the ARTEX AI penetration testing framework to attack more than 90 organizations and steal 8.2 million records. In 38 incidents, the suspect demanded 360 million won (approximately $270,000) in ransom in exchange for not leaking the data. Police said this is South Korea's first case in which a suspect was arrested for using generative AI to carry out large-scale hacking and data theft, and noted that AI has lowered the threshold for cybercrime.

    #Safety / alignment#Agents#Industry news

  6. LMSYS BlogFirst-party
    AI score58

    SGLang discloses cross-request KV cache leak and releases v0.5.21 fix

    SGLang officially disclosed that Cloudflare reported on September 9, 2026 that its GLM-5.3 deployment on Workers AI had a cross-request KV cache leak. The cause was that in the PD-disaggregated deployment, the prefill pool capacity of 681,280 tokens was smaller than the configured 1,048,576-token context length, so rejected requests still entered the handoff process and read the caches of other sessions. Upstream fixes #36988 and #38935 make rejected requests return an error before entering the disaggregated handoff, and introduce a delayed-release mechanism that releases slots only after receiving ABORT_ACK from each prefill rank or after a timeout. v0.5.21 now protects Mooncake and NIXL deployments by default, and MORI support and related metrics will be released with v0.5.22.

    An aborted request's launched writes land in KV cache slots that have already been reassigned to another request.

    #Safety / alignment#English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem

  7. East Money
    AI score70

    Meta plans to raise $95 billion through equity financing to invest in AI infrastructure; Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom intend to subscribe up to $5 billion

    Meta disclosed in a regulatory filing that it has launched a public equity offering of approximately $35 billion and plans to raise up to an additional $60 billion through an at-the-market offering of non-voting Class C shares, to fund investments in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence. Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom have expressed intent to collectively subscribe up to $5 billion of Class A stock in this offering, but the intent is non-binding. Meta expects 2026 capital expenditures to be between $135 billion and $145 billion, and the $60 billion at-the-market offering is expected to launch no earlier than the first quarter of 2027.

    Same story · 17 reports

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

  8. East Money
    AI score88

    Anthropic Submits S-1 Filing to SEC, Officially Launches IPO

    On October 26, Anthropic submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, officially initiating the IPO process. It plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol ANT; the number of shares to be issued, the price range, and the listing date have not yet been determined. The prospectus shows that the company's revenue in the first half of 2026 was $16.286 billion, with a GAAP net loss of $80.748 billion, of which $72.388 billion came from fair value changes in convertible notes, derivative liabilities, and SAFEs; on a non-GAAP basis, adjusted operating profit for the first half was $1.618 billion. Founder LLC, composed of 7 co-founders, holds Class F shares carrying 50.1% of voting power, while the Class A common stock held by public investors carries only one vote per share.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  9. Wired AI
    AI score69

    Anthropic IPO Prospectus Omits Multiple Key Financial Figures

    Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus S-1 on Monday, disclosing its business, strategy and risks, but omitting revenue figures for the most recent quarter (ended September) and details of lease agreements related to compute investment. A footnote in the prospectus shows that since December 31, 2025, the company's future minimum payment obligations under compute and infrastructure leases it has initiated or amended total approximately $417 billion, and if all agreements are fulfilled, it would bear a minimum of approximately $808 billion. Several scholars interviewed noted that the omitted information may widen the information gap with outside investors and could affect IPO pricing.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  10. Yicai
    AI score55

    AI Spending Surge Drives Record Annual US Investment-Grade Bond Issuance

    Driven by a surge in artificial intelligence spending that has pushed companies to take on more debt, US investment-grade bond issuance this year is expected to set a historical record on Monday, surpassing 2020's $1.75 trillion, with year-to-date issuance reaching $1.76 trillion once Monday's trades are priced. Since 2026, AI-related financing in the global high-grade bond market has exceeded $300 billion, nearly three times the full-year 2025 level. This year the US has seen nine deals each sized at least $25 billion, and apart from Skydance Corp.'s acquisition financing, all came from technology companies.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  11. CTech
    AI score78

    Anthropic Files Prospectus: 2025 Revenue of $4.59 Billion, Risk Section Warns AI May Threaten Human Survival

    Anthropic filed its prospectus ahead of its Nasdaq IPO, with 2025 revenue of $4.59 billion, up 1087.8% year over year, while operating losses widened 170.5% to $8.06 billion. In the first half of 2026, revenue was $16.29 billion, up 1300.3% year over year, and operating losses narrowed to $693 million. The prospectus devotes nearly 100 pages to listing risks, warning that AI without adequate safeguards could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity, while also stating that such risks could harm the company's business.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#Safety / alignment#OpenAI

  12. 404 Media
    AI score60

    Proton will re-interview employees about their AI usage, and the results may affect whether they stay or go

    Proton told employees on Monday that it will conduct company-wide re-interviews on how employees use AI. Internal emails described these interviews as "having consequences," with evaluation results to be included in organizational and talent reviews that could lead to changes in roles, responsibilities, and employment relationships. The emails show that CEO Andy Yen has already interviewed more than 40 senior leaders in the engineering and product departments first; the re-interviews are scheduled for November 4 to 11, with interviewers drawn from a pool of leaders outside their teams and reporting lines who are deemed to have strong AI capabilities.

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

  13. TechSpot
    AI score93

    Anthropic Files S-1 for IPO, Plans Nasdaq Listing

    Anthropic has submitted its S-1 filing to the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ANT. The number of shares to be offered and the price range have not yet been disclosed; earlier reports said the target raise could be as high as $100 billion. The filing shows revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, with second-quarter revenue of $11.6 billion, up 1368% year over year, while compute and infrastructure spending rose 300% over the same period. Shares held by the seven co-founders together carry 50.1% of shareholder voting power.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  14. The Decoder
    AI score83

    Anthropic Files S-1 Prospectus: First-Half Revenue of $16.3 Billion, Compute Commitments Exceed $780 Billion

    Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the underwriting; Yahoo Finance reports that Wall Street expects a valuation of about $2 trillion. Revenue grew from $376 million in Q1 2025 to $11.6 billion in Q2 2026, totaling $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026, and Q2 marked the first GAAP operating profit of $974 million. Compute contracts signed with Broadcom, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others total approximately $780 billion to $810 billion; costs are largely fixed, while revenue fluctuates with usage.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  15. t3n
    AI score80

    Anthropic releases prospectus, plans to list on Nasdaq in November 2026

    Anthropic has released a roughly 400-page prospectus, planning to list on Nasdaq in November 2026 under the ticker symbol ANT. The prospectus shows a net loss of about $1.5 billion in 2023, about $42 billion in 2025, and nearly $81 billion in the first half of 2026; over the same period, revenue rose from $41 million for the full year of 2023 to about $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, and was $16.8 billion in the third quarter of 2026. Anthropic has signed multi-year agreements with Google and Amazon, each worth more than $110 billion, and it must pay even if compute demand falls short. The seven founders retain 50.1% of voting rights, and the previously announced donation plan is noted in the prospectus as not legally binding.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  16. Zhidongxi
    AI score58

    Qujing Technology Completes Over 1.3 Billion Yuan Series B Financing, Raising a Cumulative 2.4 Billion Yuan This Year

    Beijing-based AI Token production service provider Qujing Technology has completed over 1.3 billion yuan in Series B financing, jointly led by Zhecai Innovation, Xiaoshan Capital, ICBC Investment, Zhongguancun Science City, and others, raising a cumulative 2.4 billion yuan this year. The funds will be directed toward expanding AI Token production capacity, upgrading the ATaaS platform, and R&D on underlying inference technologies. Qujing says its daily output of high-quality AI Tokens has grown more than a hundredfold to the trillion level, and that it runs trillion-parameter large models on domestic chips through solutions such as domestic PD heterogeneous collaboration.

    Same story · 6 reports

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

  17. Zhidongxi
    AI score88

    Anthropic Files S-1 for IPO Under Ticker ANT, Reports $80.748 Billion Net Loss in First Half of 2026

    Anthropic has submitted an S-1 registration statement to the SEC, planning to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT; the number of shares offered, price range, and listing date have not yet been disclosed. The prospectus shows revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up about 1,300% year over year, and a net loss of $80.748 billion, of which $72.388 billion came from fair value changes on convertible notes and similar instruments. As of September 30, 2026, more than 1,900 customers had contributed over $1 million in revenue each over the past 12 months, with a net revenue retention rate of about 900%.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  18. heise online
    AI score60

    Cloudflare CEO Says php2shell Is Just the Beginning: AI Finding Vulnerabilities Will Bring Years of Security Crisis

    Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Reuters that the recently disclosed php2shell and Broccoli2Shell vulnerabilities are just the beginning, because more and more people are using AI to find security vulnerabilities; he expects the coming years to feel like the sky is falling every week. Cloudflare was one of the first companies to detect and block php2shell attacks, and Prince said he knows of a series of severe vulnerabilities in other critical software components but did not disclose the project names. VulnCheck's Patrick Garrity and secuvera's Tobias Glemser also agree that the interval between vulnerability discovery and exploitation is steadily shrinking, with the latter advocating continuous maintenance of software.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Safety / alignment#Industry news

  19. Robotics & Automation News
    AI score60

    Bedrock Robotics Completes $600 Million Series C Funding at a $4.1 Billion Valuation

    Bedrock Robotics announced the completion of a $600 million Series C funding round at a post-money valuation of $4.1 billion, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, with existing investors including Nvidia continuing to participate, bringing the company's cumulative funding to nearly $1 billion. The funds will be used to expand the deployment of fully autonomous excavators at commercial construction sites in the United States. The company said that by mid-August 2026, fully autonomous excavators had completed paid work at real commercial construction sites, that its total customer base has more than doubled since 2025, and that it has added contractor customers such as Haydon, covering multiple states in the Midwest and South Atlantic regions.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  20. The New Stack
    AI score63

    Anthropic S-1 Disclosure: Models Released in the Past Six Months Contributed Over 80% of Q3 Revenue

    The S-1 filing submitted by Anthropic ahead of its Nasdaq listing shows that models released during the six months ended September 30 contributed more than 80% of the company's third-quarter revenue. The filing states that between April and September 2026, the company released a total of 8 publicly available Claude models and 3 restricted-access Mythos models, but did not disclose the specific revenue of each model. The filing also mentions that heavy enterprise users of Claude Code spend about 20 times as much as other enterprise users, and Reuters, citing attendees at an October 14 investor meeting, reported that the company's third-quarter revenue was $16.8 billion.

    Same story · 128 reports

    #Industry news#Anthropic