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Anthropic next week plans to proceed with formal marketing to potential investors for its upcoming initial public offering, say people familiar with the matter. The IPO roadshow will follow two weeks of volatility for tech stocks after investors reacted to massive AI spending plans from Amazon and Google and a Democrat landslide in the mid-term elections. On Friday tech stocks rebounded but ended the week down 3%. Anthropic is continuing with plans to list its shares the week of Nov 16th, before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. It’s been expected to raise more than $80 billion at a valuation of $1.5 trillion, but recent concerns about the AI-related stocks and spending could prompt it to seek a lower valuation. An Anthropic spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

“A Tesla Flying Car? I Don’t Know, Man” #Auto Future https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-flying-car-faa/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=437a6fdfc0a80b328ee6b6faa7a37d30

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Waymo confirms it will split (https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/waymo-confirms-its-shaking-up-its-uber-relationship-in-january-2028/ ) with Uber in January 2028. #Auto Future

Spot on. Once you see it handle unmarked construction zones and unexpected detours in real-time, it's really hard to go back to basic lane-keep assist. #Auto Future https://medium.com/@joe_62117/buying-a-car-without-fsd-is-buying-a-flip-phone-4f83db16d6f0

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In Apple’s first earnings under new chief executive John Ternus, the company reported sales growth slowed in its fiscal fourth quarter. Total revenue for the September quarter was $114.5 billion, up from 12% from the previous year, its slowest sales growth for the year. The iPhone business remained strong, advancing 17% to $57.6 billion. The iPad and wearables segments declined 10% and 8%, respectively. The services business continued to stagnate, growing slightly less than 10% to $32 billion in September sales. That was the slowest quarterly growth for services—which includes iCloud subscriptions, App Store and Apple TV, among others—in more than three years. Apple said it projects services growth of between 8% and 9% for the current quarter that ends in December. Apple said it expects total sales to grow between 7% and 10% for the current first quarter, showing a continued cooldown. Apple was trading down nearly 3% in after-hours trading. https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/apple-sales-cool?rc=gzsl71

Bending Spoons running massive multi-million dollar software platforms like Vimeo and Evernote with a core team of only ~60 people each is wild. Is hyper-lean post-merger integration the new blueprint for PE and public tech, or are we sacrificing long-term product innovation for short-term margins? #The Most Important Thing https://cloud.substack.com/p/5-interesting-learnings-from-bending?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=10969&post_id=220576074&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6hfx4&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Leaders of three U.S. House committees have summoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a closed-door briefing later this month over his ties to Alice Huang, a tech executive reportedly identified as a Chinese spy. The New York Times reported last month that U.S. officials had found the Nvidia CEO had a “close relationship” with a Chinese businesswoman who allegedly shared intelligence with Beijing authorities. The businesswoman, Alice Huang, was an executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. House China Committee Chair John Moolenaar, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford sent a letter to Jensen Huang requesting him to appear before the three committees for the briefing on Nov. 18. “It is vital that Congress determine the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk,” the leaders said in the letter. #Topic of War #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 #ScholER https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

Fireworks, a startup that helps developers run and train open-source models, in the last week has told some of its large customers including Harvey of a recent, more serious hack to its systems, according to two people with knowledge of the breach. The hack exposed data from some Fireworks customers, the company said Monday. Now some of Fireworks’ customers, who spend millions of dollars on its services per year, are considering switching to other providers, one of the people said. The incident highlights the increased security risks companies face, as AI-powered breaches become more common. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-fireworks-hack-threatens-1-billion-business?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+RTSU+-+Aut&utm_content=1109&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=129&rc=gzsl71