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In Form S-1/A No. 2, Anthropic priced 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 (up to $1.02T valuation) as Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft, and TSMC agreed to buy $26.0B of non-voting Class N stock at the IPO price for $84.6B net proceeds. Not financial advice.
Bitdeer lifted Q3 revenue 89% YoY to $320.7M on 86.4 EH/s, but cut its balance-sheet Bitcoin stash 97.7% YoY from 2,029 BTC to 47 BTC to fund 332 IT MW of AI cloud capacity. Not financial advice.
Six months after completing its May 11 combination with Udemy, Coursera committed to laying off roughly 10% of its global workforce, booking $14M to $17M in cash severance and benefits charges across Q4 2026 and the first half of 2027.
Hashimoto joins on Nov 16 at a $675K base salary with a 90% bonus target and 240% equity target before succeeding retiring CFO Paul Lawrence on Jan 15, 2027.
Agents powered by Gemini Carbon generated over 6M lines of Lean proofs for Signal's production cryptography, cutting human review to 1% of the codebase and catching 2 reintroduced bugs.
Funded accounts rose 18% YoY to 4.39M with $20.8B in assets, yet weaker retail crypto volume cut net contribution 13% to $186M and GAAP profit from $57M to $15M. Not financial advice.
TSMC reported October 2026 consolidated net revenue of NT$586.89B, up 14.7% from September and up 59.7% year over year, pushing January-to-October revenue up 43.3% to NT$4,485.62B as AI wafer shipments continue accelerating in Q4.
Swapping third-party LLM calls for its proprietary Base 1 model turned Wix's vibe-coding unit from a Q1 margin drag into a 58% gross-margin business in two quarters.
In December 1999, Nissan Motor Co. sued a North Carolina computer repairman for $10,000,000 to seize Nissan.com. His legal birth name was Uzi Nissan. He spent over $3,000,000 across eight years of federal court battles, defeated the dilution claim at the Ninth Circuit, and kept his family name.
Strategy routed 66.3% of last week's common stock sales to retire preferred shares. MARA liquidated $3.02B in Bitcoin this year to wipe out $750M in BTC-backed loans. Bitdeer kept just 47 BTC of the 3,855 it mined in Q3 to build a $2.9B AI cloud backlog.
Pudgy Penguins sells toys across 3,100 Walmart and 1,800 Target stores. Chimpers signed a six-year global licensing deal. Claynosaurz streams to 90 million TV homes. Why real-world consumer wins do not lift secondary NFT prices.
Agility Robotics listed on Nasdaq at a $2.5B equity value with $175,000 in six-month revenue and $54,000 from outside customers. Six days earlier, Symbotic signed a $6B expansion to run wheeled robots across 25 Walmart hubs.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows customer inference took just $4,812M of its $33,242M nine-month revenue, while R&D burned $19,240M. Inside Revolut, 2,000 engineers show why the lab cannot stop spending.
On the fomo app, weekly spot token trading has fallen from nearly $2.4 billion in August to $295.7 million. Over the same last week of October, its perpetual futures notional volume hit a record $1.03 billion.
DoorDash handled 993 million orders last quarter. Outside AI agents have placed several hundred since they were switched on. A 50-agent colony in Minecraft sent 5,900 messages and never took off. Where agents get measured, the numbers are small.
