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Anthropic files for IPO, plans Nasdaq listing as ANT
Claude maker Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company booked $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 and an $80.7 billion net loss over the same period. The listing is expected in mid-November.
Read News · Funding 3 min readMeta plans record $95 billion share sale to fund AI
Meta has announced plans to raise up to $95 billion in new equity to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work. The company also disclosed its first negative free cash flow in more than a decade in the third quarter.
Read News · Workforce 3 min readMicrosoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, at vice-president level and below in the US, Canada, India and the UK, as it seeks to offset the cost of AI investment.
Read News · Funding 3 min readSalesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy customer engagement platform Braze at an enterprise value of about $5.66 billion, paying $47.50 a share in cash.
Read News · Startups 3 min readVectorial raises $3 million to simulate human behaviour
San Francisco-based Vectorial raised a $3 million seed round for a platform that tests product journeys, campaigns and customer-facing AI agents against simulated people modelled on real users.
Read News · Funding 3 min readAnthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
Anthropic, preparing for an IPO, will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund that can grow with the company's value. With earlier pledges, about 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the public good.
Read News · Funding 3 min readMicrosoft quits Nscale's UK data centre weeks before its IPO
Microsoft has pulled out of anchoring Nscale's first UK data centre in Essex, reportedly because the grid cannot power the site until the 2030s. The news came weeks before Nscale's planned US IPO.
Read News · Funding 3 min readAnthropic's quarterly revenue hits $16.8 billion ahead of IPO
Anthropic reportedly earned $16.8 billion in the third quarter and was profitable on an adjusted basis. It plans to start marketing its IPO in November and list by year-end.
Read News · Startups 3 min readTurkey's AI startup count passes 500 for the first time
Turkey's AI startup map grew from 482 to 504 companies in TRAI's October update. 43 startups were added and 21 removed, with agentic AI the fastest-growing category.
Read News · Funding 3 min readAmazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon is in talks to buy Decart, whose software runs AI efficiently across different chips, for about $7 billion. Anthropic earlier walked away from a $6 billion deal.
Read News · Funding 3 min readSpend management startup Ramp valued at $60 billion
Ramp, which makes corporate cards and expense software, raised about $1.85 billion at a roughly $60 billion valuation, up from $44 billion in June.
Read News · Funding 3 min readTypeSafe valued at $7.5 billion three weeks after leaving stealth
TypeSafe, an AI lab whose model returns structured output for software, raised an $870 million Series A led by a16z at a $7.5 billion valuation, three weeks after a seed round priced near $200 million.
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