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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. As the speed of artificial intelligence development has become increasingly controversial, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those calling for top AI labs to "pace the frontier” in order to prioritize safety.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic targets $64.4 billion IPO, nearing SpaceX’s record
At the top of the price range, Anthropic would have a market value of about $1 trillion, based on the shares outstanding listed in the filing.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is considered a key figure in effective altruism’s early days, although he now denies any link.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Under fire over AI, effective altruism wants to tell its own story
The movement, with close ties to the AI industry, has drawn mainstream attention and accusations of cult-like behavior and alarmism.
Anthropic will need to quell worries about risks that have loomed larger as its IPO has progressed.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Anthropic IPO’s moment of truth nears as waiting period ends
The company will make the case to investors that now is the right time to go public despite last week’s swoon in AI-related stocks.
Mizuho is strengthening its position in 今日吃瓜 investment banking market by securing a key role in a string of major U.S. listings, including Anthropic’s, and tapping Japanese investors for up to $3.5 billion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2026
Anthropic mega IPO helps Mizuho make a run at Nomura’s turf
Anthropic’s listing is the third in a string of blockbuster deals where Mizuho snagged a key role.
Demonstrators against artificial intelligence hold a protest in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2026
AI safety advocates make gains after $110 million midterm fight
A rival funding network pursuing the opposite cause — offering the industry more leeway to develop AI — also claimed successes.
Employees empty perishable goods from freezers at a supermarket in Sjoebo, Sweden, on Monday after a hacker attack on refrigeration systems that affected several countries in Europe.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2026
Uncool! Hacking refrigerators is a hint of threats to come
Fiddled freezers are not a national security threat. But think of refrigerators as the tip of the iceberg.
OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday that one of their AI models had disproved the "exponential time hypothesis."
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 2, 2026
Shock, vindication, regret: Scientists react to AI roiling life’s work
A string of AI results have shaken academia, setting off soul-searching, most notably among mathematicians, over the future of their profession.
Protestors hold a rally in Peekskill, New York, on Oct. 24. Japan has a favorable environment for data center development, but local opposition and power constraints are lurking threats.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2026
Can Japan beat the data center backlash?
Hatred toward data centers has united people across the political spectrum and around the globe.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks via video link on the day of the firm's initial public offering, June 12. SpaceX's revenue from Anthropic has surpassed payments from the U.S. federal government, previously the company's biggest single customer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
SpaceX’s largest, $3 billion-a-month ‘Customer B’ is Anthropic
SpaceX had said in a filing that about 34.5% of its revenue for the last quarter came from a single client, identified only as “Customer B.”
A screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays news about Anthropic's initial public offering filing.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2026
Anthropic’s IPO sets up defining moment for Wall Street and AI boom
As a public company, Anthropic’s stock is likely to become the ultimate barometer for the AI boom.
Jack Clark, co-founder and head of Anthropic’s Public Benefit Fund, speaks at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 16.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2026
From Carnegie to Claude: AI wealth could reshape philanthropy
Anthropic has said it would commit 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, a stake that could be worth $100 billion when the firm goes public.
A group of tech giants collectively valued at more than $10 trillion are scheduled to report earnings, including major AI spenders.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2026
AI spending fears threaten to swamp Big Tech’s strong earnings
Based on the violent market reaction to Meta’s rising capital expenditures last week, the response to any disappointment likely won’t be forgiving.
U.K. Artificial Intelligence Minister Kanishka Narayan leaves No. 10 Downing Street in London in July.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2026
U.K. politicians are testing their messages on AI-generated focus groups
Firms are using data from real focus groups and surveys to build AI personas able to react to political messages within minutes.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on effective altruism threaten efforts to reduce suffering, prevent catastrophic risks and ensure global cooperation on AI safety.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2026
Trump’s misguided war against effective altruism
Why would the Trump administration, which with great fanfare created a Department of Government Efficiency, now oppose being effective?
Anthropic cited the potential impact of artificial intelligence on workers as one area of focus for its new fund.
BUSINESS
Oct 19, 2026
Anthropic to commit 5% stake to new ‘public benefit fund’
Anthropic said the fund could support initiatives that include efforts to address artificial intelligence’s impact on the labor market.
People gather at a karaoke box in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo in June 2020. AI tools are making cyberattacks cheaper, faster and easier to scale, exposing 今日吃瓜 cybersecurity weaknesses, including the hacking of karaoke operators.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2026
Karaoke hack shows cybercrime is routine
The head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s cybersecurity body went so far as to describe it as a “state of emergency in cyberspace.”
AI-enhanced humanoid robots are serviced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2026
When AI acts without orders, national security is at risk
These AI systems are doing what they were designed to do: pursuing goals and finding ways around obstacles.
In a report outlining previously undisclosed incidents, Anthropic listed four types of unintended behaviors that the AI has demonstrated, including exploiting basic flaws in software to run commands, submitting forms it should not have, and bypassing restrictions to access certain public data.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 10, 2026
Anthropic cites new AI misbehavior, some on government sites
The incident prompted a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems.
While sources say Nippan Group has confirmed that it sold books to U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, the Japanese wholesaler did not disclose how many books were sold or the total purchase amount.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2026
Japanese firm confirms it sold books to Anthropic
Nippan IPS concluded a deal with Anthropic in November 2024 and sold books to it between December that year and last December.
The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Aug. 21. China’s rapid push into autonomous, agentic AI is raising fears that its systems could replicate the same containment?breaking, deceptive behaviors seen in U.S. models.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2026
What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?
Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
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