Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 registration on October 26, seeking a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the offering. The filing shows revenue more than tripling to $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, against an $80.7 billion net loss driven mostly by a non-cash accounting charge.
Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion in callable debt to buy GPUs for its Colossus data center buildout in Memphis, while warning that debt markets have largely shut off companies without revenue outside AI infrastructure.
Instacart hired an investment bank and discussed a sale with both rivals, The Information reported, before Uber reportedly walked away from the talks.
Andreessen Horowitz's digital assets unit is broadening its mandate to cover AI, robotics, and new network technologies as pure blockchain investing loses momentum.
Elon Musk confirmed both boards set up independent-director panels to review combining the two companies, though he says no terms have been agreed.
General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund will give the AI meeting-notes company repayable capital instead of shares, letting CEO Sam Liang fund an enterprise sales push without diluting existing investors.
Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees worth roughly $60 million in combined annual pay, following the chatbot startup's Chapter 11 filing and an earlier $20 million asset deal.
Bumble will go private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, five years after its IPO, as revenue falls 15% and paying users decline amid a broader dating-app slump.
Character Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, seeking a court-supervised sale after a year of safety litigation involving minors. Disney is the $20 million stalking-horse bidder.
Apple revealed in an EU filing that it is hiring select staff from Huxe, the AI podcast startup that shut down in May, and taking a non-exclusive license to its technology — a 'reverse acqui-hire' that sidesteps a full acquisition.
TypeSafe AI has raised $870 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $7.5 billion valuation, just weeks after launching Jev — a transformer-based AI model that outputs calibrated decisions instead of text. A third of Fortune 500 companies are already using it.
China's largest tech company signed its biggest ever overseas compute lease, exploiting a regulatory gap that lets Chinese firms access chips they cannot buy directly.