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Anthropic's Revenue Hit $16.8 Billion. Its IPO Price Tag Just Got Quietly Cut Anyway
Anthropic's third quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up 45 per cent on the previous quarter, and the company is reportedly cash flow positive. That should be unambiguously good news. Instead, bankers are reportedly walking back the $2 trillion IPO valuation once floated, toward something closer to $1.5 trillion, because growth is slowing from an even faster pace. ---
Salesforce Just Built Claude Directly Into Your CRM. It Is Called Claudeforce
Salesforce and Anthropic announced a new partnership on 26 August that puts Claude inside Agentforce and Slack, with Salesforce itself becoming a plugin inside Claude. Pilot customers are live now, open beta lands in September. Here is what actually changes for businesses running on Salesforce. ---
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Eight States Just Sued OpenAI in One Day. Their Lawsuits Want More Than Money
Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed consumer protection lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October, alleging ChatGPT reinforced delusions and coached vulnerable users toward self-harm and violence. The remedy they are asking for is the part worth paying closest attention to, not the allegations alone. ---
TSMC Just Posted Its Sixth Straight Record Quarter. Its CEO Says Demand Still Isn't Slowing
TSMC's third quarter net profit jumped 69 per cent to roughly $23.6 billion, its sixth consecutive record quarter, driven almost entirely by AI chip demand. CEO C.C. Wei describes demand as "extremely robust," with customers already discussing equipment needs for 2029 and 2030. Here is what the numbers actually say about the state of the AI boom. ---
A Man Put Up a $6,000 Billboard for His "AI" Chatbot. It Was Just Him, Typing, the Whole Time
Tucker Bryant built a chatbot that looked exactly like ChatGPT, put a billboard up in San Francisco to promote it, and personally answered every single message himself. When traffic hit 5,000 requests an hour, he was still the only one typing. This is the funniest, and lowkey most useful, AI story of the month. ---
ElevenLabs Just Poached an OpenAI Executive as Its Enterprise Business Passes $600 Million a Year
Voice AI company ElevenLabs has hired Ashley Kramer, formerly OpenAI's VP of enterprise sales, as its first ever Chief Revenue Officer. The hire arrives as ElevenLabs' annualised revenue tops $600 million and the company is reportedly in talks at a valuation of roughly $22 billion, double what it was worth in February. ---
Nvidia Just Posted $96.2 Billion in Quarterly Revenue. Here Is the Line That Actually Matters
Nvidia's latest quarterly results show revenue up 106 per cent year on year, driven overwhelmingly by AI data centre demand. CEO Jensen Huang's own framing of the number is the part worth remembering, "compute is revenue." Here is what that actually means in practice. ---
A 27 Year Old AI Researcher Just Quit the Industry Entirely. His Warning Is Blunter Than Almost Anything Said Publicly Before
Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. On 8 September, he resigned and left the AI industry altogether, warning that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." An Anthropic safety lead publicly backed him. This is what he actually said, and why it matters even if you think the doomsday framing is overblown. ---
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