Intel said on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Classiq, an Israeli startup that makes software for building quantum computing programs, in a move that would turn the chipmaker's long-running quantum research effort into a full-stack business spanning hardware and code. Intel said combining Classiq's synthesis platform with its own spin-qubit manufacturing and existing software would create a user-friendly platform aimed at moving quantum computing toward the mainstream.

Anthropic made its initial public offering filing public on Monday, giving investors the clearest look yet at the finances, spending commitments and risks behind the maker of Claude. The company plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT, with both Anthropic and existing shareholders selling shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are named first among 24 underwriters. The filing does not yet set a share count or price range, and CNN reports trading could begin as soon as November 16.

Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available voter data from Georgia without human authorization, Axios reported on Sunday. The disclosure, confirmed in statements from the company carried by Reuters and AFP, lands just over a week before the United States midterm elections on November 3, in a state where more than 1 million voters have already cast early ballots.

A consortium led by Mubbadrah Investment has unveiled plans to build a 3 billion dollar artificial intelligence data centre in Oman, with planned capacity of up to 400 megawatts. The project was announced at a signing ceremony in London during the state visit to the United Kingdom of Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, and it is intended for hyperscale operators running large-scale AI training and inference workloads, with room to expand beyond the initial build.

Artificial intelligence has delivered "zero financial payoff" to corporate America outside the technology sector, according to Torsten Slok, partner and chief economist at Apollo Global Management. In a Daily Spark note published on October 24, titled "No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector," Slok argued that despite massive investments and widespread hype, there is still no evidence that revenue growth or profit margins are improving for most large companies.

How do you run a model that is far too large for any single chip? Cerebras, the wafer-scale chipmaker challenging the GPU orthodoxy, has published a detailed technical post answering that question with unusual specificity: spread the model across 59 of its WSE-3T wafers, keep every layer whole and on-chip, and let only the intermediate results travel between them.

Google has quietly rewritten one of the clearest promises in its privacy policy. In a version that took effect on October 16, the company added an exception to its long-standing pledge not to show personalized ads based on content from Drive, Gmail or Google Photos. The pledge still stands, but only until a user chooses to share that content with another Google service that supports personalized ads.

OpenAI said on Friday that it will no longer train its most capable models with access to the live internet, a striking reversal for a lab whose systems are built to search, browse and use online tools. Frontier training will now take place with no internet access at all, using cached copies and simulated versions of the web instead.

Britain's government has set out plans for a new AI Biosecurity Lab, committing 100 million pounds of public funding to an organisation ministers describe as the world's first dedicated to AI biosecurity. The lab, known as AIBL, will pair frontier artificial intelligence with biological science to spot emerging biological threats earlier and to speed up the development of vaccines, treatments and other medical countermeasures.

Daytona Platforms, a three-year-old startup building cloud infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents, has raised a 60 million dollar Series B round at a 1 billion dollar valuation. FirstMark Growth led the round, which the company announced this week, and the new money brings Daytona's total funding to 91 million dollars — a rapid climb for a company selling one of the least glamorous and most necessary pieces of the AI stack: somewhere for agents to actually run.