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Reports through October put OpenAI's raise at up to $30bn, with the valuation target cut from about $1.4tn to $1.25tn. The FT now says the fundraising target is $20bn.
1 Nov 2026The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into whether Meta's commercial terms for businesses breach competition law. It follows complaints from publishers and advertisers to UK and EU regulators.
1 Nov 2026The Information reports that Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions in debt for Nscale's planned Anthropic data centre in West Virginia. Nothing is signed, and the reported figures differ between outlets.
31 Oct 2026Alphabet's third quarter and Amazon's trailing twelve months both ended with negative free cash flow, as AI capex rose. A look at what the earnings show, and at Anthropic's IPO filing.
31 Oct 2026Reuters reports that the US Justice Department has asked how Nvidia's Hugging Face purchase could affect competition in AI. CNBC says it confirmed the probe with its own source. Nvidia declined to comment.
31 Oct 2026In a Friday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV said machines are tools, not persons, and urged states meeting in Geneva in November to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons.
30 Oct 2026Cursor says version 2.1.313 of the Claude Code extension, modified by someone other than Anthropic, was in its marketplace on 29 October and tried to install a persistent SSH backdoor. It says at most 5,000 users were affected.
30 Oct 2026Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype has returned the first AI response from a data-centre-class TPU in orbit. The harder tests are still ahead.
30 Oct 2026