Monday, November 9, 2026

Filing: Anthropic now aims to raise up to $69.3B in its IPO (opens reuters.com)

Reuters saw emails to bankers with details of the IPO filing that Anthropic sent and then retracted; TechCrunch says the valuation range is expected this week.

Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines (opens techcrunch.com)

Anthropic bought billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.

Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 "intelligence usage packs" when monthly usage caps are met (opens 9to5mac.com)

Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” when monthly usage caps are met, starting in its Creator Studio apps — Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features. Now the first 'intelligence usage packs …

Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes (opens openai.com)

A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.

AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information (opens forbes.com)

AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month — Two customers told Forbes they had already substantially moved their business off Fireworks' systems, with one describing a series …

SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases (opens bloomberg.com)

SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice — SpaceX plans to construct, own and operate a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility at its company town in Starbase, Texas …

Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget (opens stork.ai)

Baidu says its AI research agent sped up its next ERNIE model (opens thenextweb.com)

Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve, an AI system that runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on GPUs and more than sixfold on Kunlunxin chips. All figures are Baidu’s own.

IBM plans to bring Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to enterprise customers (opens thenextweb.com)

IBM will put Claude Mythos in Concert Protect for vulnerability scanning; TNW separately reports Cisco adding it to AI Defense for red teaming.

Commerce halted its Megaspeed probe after Nvidia stepped in, NYT reports (opens thenextweb.com)

The Commerce Department stopped its investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia’s general counsel contacted the agents running it, Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett reported for The New York Times. The case moved to the Justice Department.

Sequoia partners reportedly blindsided when Roelof Botha joined SpaceX board (opens techcrunch.com)

A new report claims Sequoia's recent changes undo the legacy of the firm's former steward.