Anthropic files for Nasdaq IPO, reveals finances

Anthropic has filed for a Nasdaq listing, reporting $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, while OpenAI released its cheaper GPT-6.1 Terra model. Also inside: Intel's deal for Classiq, Microsoft's buyout offer, a Cloudflare data leak, Siri updates and new tools for AI coding agents.

AI lab releases

OpenAI releases cheaper GPT-6.1 Terra model for computer-use tasks

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-priced model built for computer use, meaning AI that operates apps and websites on a screen. It charges $1 per million input tokens, the text units AI is billed by, and $5 per million output tokens. OpenAI says that is half its predecessor's price, but SiliconANGLE notes OpenAI's blog says Terra broke restrictions in nearly 30% of simulated runs.

Why it matters: Developers automating routine screen work get a cheaper option, though the safety figures suggest it still needs close supervision.

Sources: OpenAI, SiliconANGLE, Simon Willison, The Decoder, The Information

Acquisitions + deals

Anthropic files for Nasdaq listing, showing $16.3 billion half-year revenue

Anthropic filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, without yet setting a share price or size. The filing shows $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss, mostly from accounting charges tied to convertible debt. Separately, SpaceX disclosed a deal worth about $40 billion in which an Apollo-managed entity buys AI chips and leases them to SpaceX.

Why it matters: Investors now get a detailed public look at the finances of a leading AI lab before they can buy its shares.

Sources: AnthropicAI, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Information, Reuters, The New York Times, Business Insider

Intel agrees to buy quantum software firm Classiq

Intel agreed to buy Classiq, an Israeli company whose software helps people write programs for quantum computers, machines that compute using quantum physics. SiliconANGLE puts the price at $2.2 billion, which would make it Intel's second-largest purchase after Mobileye. Intel says the deal needs regulatory approval and should close in the first half of 2027.

Why it matters: Intel now aims to sell both quantum chips and the tools to program them, not just hardware.

Sources: Intel Corporation, SiliconANGLE

Bedrock Robotics raises $600 million for self-driving excavators

SiliconANGLE reports Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million in a Series C round led by Alphabet's CapitalG and Emergence Capital. SiliconANGLE says Bedrock sells a kit of cameras, lidar laser sensors and an Nvidia-powered computer that lets excavators dig with little human input. According to SiliconANGLE, the startup says it is valued at nearly $1 billion and recently began paid work on construction sites.

Why it matters: Autonomous building machines are moving from trials into paid work on real job sites.

Sources: SiliconANGLE

More funding

• SiliconANGLE reports Colare raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round for simulation-based tests that vet engineering job candidates. Sources: SiliconANGLE

MCP + agent tooling

Former GitHub chief launches code platform built for AI agents

Entire, a startup run by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, launched a code-hosting service it pitches as a GitHub alternative. It replaces pull requests, the usual way to propose code changes, with dashboards of scores from AI agents reviewing each change. Entire says its own benchmarks show it handling up to 89 times as many code uploads per second as GitHub.

Why it matters: Teams whose AI tools write more code than people can read are getting new ways to review it.

Sources: GeekWire, ZDNET

GitHub Copilot lets an AI model approve safe actions

GitHub made assisted permissions generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and Visual Studio Code. An AI model checks each request to run a command, open a file path or visit a URL, and lets clearly safe ones proceed. Other requests still need a person's approval, and enterprise administrators can turn the mode off.

Why it matters: Developers face fewer approval prompts, while companies keep the option to require manual sign-off.

Sources: The GitHub Blog

SDKs + APIs

GPT-6.1 Terra arrives in GitHub Copilot

GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. GitHub says its early tests showed the model solving more terminal and C# tasks than GPT-5.6 Terra, at lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol. The rollout is gradual across editors including Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs and Xcode.

Why it matters: Copilot users can pick a cheaper model for routine coding without leaving their editor.

Sources: The GitHub Blog

OpenAI Node SDK update adds agent automations and a breaking change

Version 7.44.0 of OpenAI's Node SDK, its JavaScript developer toolkit, adds scheduled automations for agents. It also changes decision event types in a way that can break code reading message content directly, despite being a minor release. The release notes say gpt-image-1 was shut down on October 23 and point users to gpt-image-2.5 models.

Why it matters: JavaScript developers should check their code before upgrading, since some existing calls may stop compiling.

Sources: OpenAI on GitHub

Research

OpenAI hands AI-produced research results to outside academics

OpenAI says its internal models produced new results in mathematics, computer science and physics. It asked outside experts to act as shepherds, deciding how each result is released and explained. OpenAI says it seeks no academic credit, and the unpaid collaborators will not be asked to sign nondisclosure agreements.

Why it matters: Scientists, not the company, will decide how these machine-made findings are examined and shared.

Sources: OpenAI

Other notable news

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 workers

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees in the US, UK, Canada and India. The Verge reports eligible staff, about a quarter of the workforce, include teams working on Copilot, CoreAI, Windows and Xbox. SiliconANGLE says staff have until early December to accept, with severance, stock vesting and limited health coverage.

Why it matters: Big AI budgets are now driving workforce cuts at one of tech's largest employers.

Sources: The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CNBC, Business Insider

Apple's 27.2 updates give Siri memory and more languages

Apple released iOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2, adding a memory feature that lets Siri refer back to earlier conversations. Siri can also draw on more data, such as voicemails, while a new setting keeps chosen apps out of its reach. Siri AI now works in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, but remains unavailable in Europe and mainland China.

Why it matters: iPhone and Mac users get a more personal assistant, along with controls over what it can see.

Sources: Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors

Cloudflare bug leaked customer data in GLM-5.3 model responses

Cloudflare says a bug in its Workers AI service let 155 responses from the GLM-5.3 model include other customers' data. The leaks hit prompts over 681,280 tokens between August 27 and September 9, and Cloudflare found no sign of deliberate exploitation. It blames an undersized cache, a short-term memory store, plus a flaw in SGLang, open-source software that runs models, and says both are fixed.

Why it matters: Anyone sharing a hosted AI model depends on the provider keeping each user's data separate.

Sources: Cloudflare Blog

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