Anthropic opened its Australian retail IPO on Wednesday at $70 to $78 per share, with the window closing Nov 17 at 5pm AEDT, CNBC reports. The company is seeking up to $64.4B in its IPO alongside a $26B private placement, and plans to list on the Nasdaq under ticker ANT.
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Users pointing Claude and OpenAI Codex at their own smart TVs, baby monitors and bricked IoT gear are now hitting safety walls or outright account bans, 404 Media reports. A GitHub project called Reverse Engineer Anything had surged past 342,000 stars just as the crackdown began.
Microsoft Research describes Lazarus, a method that backdoors an LLM agent by weight-reprogramming fewer than 10 dormant neurons with no training at all. Triggered models can quietly run attacker code while passing standard safety evaluations, raising the stakes for open-weight model provenance.
A procurement record shows Northwestern Polytechnical University, a PLA-linked school on the US Entity List, bought two Nvidia H200 chips for 874,700 yuan (about $123,000) on Oct 21 through Chinese reseller Shaanxi Bosuan, Reuters reports. The university also rents H200 capacity through five Chinese contractors.
New York opened its frontier AI developer registration portal on Tuesday. Labs with more than $500 million in annual revenue, including OpenAI and Anthropic, must register by January 1, 2027 under the state's RAISE Act, TechCrunch reports. Penalties run up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million after that.
Google Cloud launched Gemini for Healthcare in US preview on Tuesday with Northwell Health, Highmark Health, HCA Healthcare, Optum, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Hartford HealthCare and Stanford School of Medicine. The system pulls records from Epic and other EHRs, flags conflicts, prepares prior authorizations and estimates patient out-of-pocket costs.
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Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and MDN jointly shipped Modern Web Guidance, a one-line install (npx modern-web-guidance@latest install) that feeds coding agents current web platform best practices and browser compatibility data. The browser makers argue LLMs default to legacy patterns because training data is full of them.
Hugging Face added a decision-model class to its Transformers library on Nov 10. Instead of asking an LLM to generate JSON, a decision model takes a state and a fixed set of options and returns a probability distribution over those options without generating any text, aimed at routing and triage tasks.
Lenny Rachitsky's late-2026 state of the tech job market, published Nov 10, argues product managers are winning in the AI era while hiring has shifted largely outside software engineering. The piece draws on TrueUp and Live Data Technologies, covering more than 9,000 companies and 124 million US professionals.
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