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Last updated Saturday, November 7, 2026 — 3:30 AM EST
Prospective investors have pushed Anthropic to lower the roughly $1.5 trillion valuation it is preparing for a November listing, with some floating $1.2 trillion or less, and the roadshow may slip.
OpenAI said Thursday its security-specialized GPT-6 Cyber model found 81 Firefox flaws and built 948 working Linux kernel exploits in testing, leading it to rate the system ‘critical’ and restrict access.
The global sell-off in artificial-intelligence shares deepened Friday in Asia, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 falling the most in more than a year and sliding into a technical bear market.
Election results and a wave of ballot measures have heightened fears of data-center regulation, with more than half the projected United States hyperscaler pipeline sited in states newly open to restrictions.
Wall Street’s best post-midterm rally in 44 years lasted one day: the Nasdaq plunged more than 5 per cent Thursday into correction territory as technology shares shed roughly $3 trillion.
DuckDuckGo is courting school districts after Google said schools may switch off Gemini but cannot keep Google Search without its other artificial-intelligence features. ‘Forcing AI on school children: how a monopolist behaves,’ the company’s public affairs chief wrote.
Forty-four of the 45 data-centre measures on midterm ballots nationwide ran against the industry. Harwood, North Dakota, population 940, was the sole constituency to vote the other way, rejecting a home-rule measure 325 to 105.
Google will disable Gemini, NotebookLM and other AI tools for school-age accounts next year unless administrators opt in, a reversal that leaves schools choosing between its AI features and its search engine.
Technology shares fell for a second day on Friday as investors questioned the returns on artificial intelligence spending, pushing the Nasdaq 100 into its third correction of 2026 and capping the index’s worst month since March 2025.
Microsoft confirmed Monday that it is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees in the United States, Canada, India and Britain, a figure approaching a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce.
Anthropic filed its public S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, taking the final step toward an initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT that reports have said could value the AI company at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion.
