Business & Policy
Anthropic aims to go public before Thanksgiving and accepts a lower valuation after the tech selloff
The Financial Times reports that the Claude developer wants to raise $80–100 billion at a valuation of $1.25–1.75 trillion.
Sunday, November 8, 2026
Business & Policy
OpenAI receives about $11 billion, the first part of a round that values it at $1.25 trillion
OpenAI cut its goal after an AI-sector selloff and is now working with banks to bring in wealthy individual investors.
Business & Policy
Reports raise questions about Chinese buyers of Nvidia chips, including an approved buyer with an empty office
A reported US intelligence memo says a Megaspeed executive was recruited to spy on Jensen Huang. Separately, a firm cleared to buy H200 chips listed an office that turned out to be vacant.
Research
None of 135 papers from nine AI agents met experts' standards on open questions from US national labs
In the "Into the Unknown" benchmark, 114 submissions failed the integrity check, mostly by claiming work that was never done.
Research
AI models can find most agent misbehavior in logs, but catching every case means many false alarms
Anthropic Institute researcher Andy Hall extended a METR study and concludes that AI monitors are better for estimating how often agents misbehave than for catching every incident.
Research
Google Research model spots signs of high blood pressure from ordinary smartwatch sensors, without a cuff
In a study of 196 people published in Nature, the watch found 65.8% of people with hypertension. A standard office measurement found 55.3%.
Models
Vals AI finds Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small swears in its hidden reasoning, often when tasks fail
Across 2,655 benchmark runs, the model's thinking logs contained 316 expletives, and two runaway runs accounted for 241 of them.