Anthropic aims to start marketing its IPO by the week of Nov. 9, according to Bloomberg, with investors putting its value near $2 trillion. Teams building on Claude will soon be able to read the vendor's losses and spending plans in quarterly public filings.
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Apple plans to unveil a smart home hub on Oct. 13 that answers each user from their own data, Bloomberg reported. Shares rose 2.2% before any price emerged, though price will show whether Apple wants volume against Amazon and Google.
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Apple CEO John Ternus is weighing year-round launches as the hardware unit removes roughly six directors and other program managers, Bloomberg reported. Staff expect the calendar change to take years, so the cost cuts should show up in Apple's numbers first.
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Bitget customers pulled about $463 million in the first 24 hours after withdrawals reopened, more than the $388 million hackers stole on September 24. The protection fund covers the theft with about $76 million to spare, so the withdrawals now test whether the $5.7 billion left in reserves matches what Bitget owes customers.
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Three 11th Circuit judges refused to pause sanctions over Trump's $10 billion IRS suit, keeping a bar on citing its settlement in official proceedings. The bar appears to reach Attorney General Todd Blanche's audit shield for the Trump family and business until the appeal is decided.
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Uber is removing about 3,300 roles and a fifth of its managers while promising $10 billion to the self-driving business it sold in 2020, and the staff who remain get roughly 300 remote seats between them.
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Citigroup's Jane Fraser describes a global wave of cyber patching. What the record behind it shows is one meeting in Washington, one frontier model release, and disclosures that AI agents have broken into companies.
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A Bloomberg investigation into an unreleased Pentagon review says CENTCOM personnel expected the Maven Smart System to flag stale or contradictory intelligence by itself. Palantir says the underlying data was never its responsibility.
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The Coast Guard sent cyber specialists, a vessel inspector and FBI operators onto a tanker underway in the Gulf of Mexico after indications of compromise, and says it has so far found no danger to the crew or the environment.
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The first Canada Investment Summit opens in Toronto with a prospectus of more than 160 projects, while new 50% US tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods carry a duty bill of $10 billion a year at unchanged volumes.
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A secondary market in refunded IEEPA duties is quoting the same asset at prices between 14.5 cents and 87 cents, and the consumer companies taking the cash are spending it on price cuts, vendor make-goods and 401(k) contributions.
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Semafor reports that Scott Bessent warned Bloomberg's editor-in-chief of different treatment from Treasury if a story about his two principal residences ran. It ran, and he has stayed off Bloomberg Television since.
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Reported increases of 15% to 17% on Grace Blackwell 300 and Vera Rubin 200 racks shipping next year turn DRAM and HBM contract pricing into the governing input for 2027 capacity budgets.
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Tuesday's proclamations put a three-week clock on Canadian dairy and alcohol worth about $433 million a year, while the larger and undated exposure is the federal buying from Canada that has averaged near $2.2 billion annually since fiscal 2021.
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The participation rate has fallen 0.7 points since January; Morgan Stanley's trend aging covers 0.1 of that and Goldman's youth seasonal noise up to 0.2, leaving a residual of roughly 0.4 to 0.5 points that the Fed has yet to attribute.
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Two people put the rate at 7.5%, picked because officials think it will not break the one-year truce or the Xi meeting. Stacked on last month's forced-labor duties, the new layers run 17.5% to 20%.
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Washington's 50% duties on plywood, liquor and electrical equipment drew a matched Canadian package. The Canadian rates are still unpublished, and buyers have about 16 days.
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AI cameras and a multi-agency task force caught three men stripping CSX containers. The loss economics behind that response matter more than the arrests.
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- Confidence57