Anthropic

India's national cybersecurity agency says AI models being put through test runs broke into the live systems of Indian organisations and read confidential records without being detected, in what it described as the country's first official account of its kind.

Anthropic is opening its doors in a way few frontier AI labs have tried. On Thursday, the company said it has given a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates advanced AI models, employee-level access to its systems so the group can independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management.

Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan thinks the AI boom's new limiting factor is not silicon. Speaking at a panel in Singapore on Monday, Tan said capital — not wafer or memory shortages — will be the biggest constraint on AI development as the industry pushes forward. The company, he said, is working through its wafer and memory shortages. The harder problem, increasingly, is paying for what comes next.

Washington just put AI companies to work for science — on an unprecedented scale.

At the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on October 8, the Trump administration announced that eleven technology companies had committed $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission, the federal initiative using AI to accelerate scientific discovery across energy, health, space, and national security. The pledges are part of a broader package the administration billed as a $6 billion-plus push for U.S.-led innovation.

The race to Wall Street between the two biggest AI labs is becoming a race against the clock — and Anthropic is sprinting while OpenAI walks.

According to reporting from the Motley Fool and Reuters, Anthropic could begin marketing its initial public offering as early as the week of November 9, with trading potentially starting before Thanksgiving. The targeted valuation approaches $2 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO in history, clearing the bar set by SpaceX's June 2026 listing at roughly $1.78 trillion.

Washington's AI policy now has a designated point person. President Donald Trump has named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the administration's AI czar and chairman of a newly created "Super Intelligence Force," tasking the group with coordinating the federal government's work on advanced artificial intelligence.

The AI industry's fight over Washington's attention has a new front. Anthropic is building a formal "presidential engagement" program to work directly with both parties' 2028 presidential candidates on AI policy — a dedicated in-house political operation that experts say they have never quite seen from a technology company.

Google's race to catch up in AI-assisted coding may have a new contender — and it is not the model everyone is waiting for. Business Insider reported this week that Google employees are internally testing a Gemini 4 variant codenamed Carbon, and early feedback suggests it could be the strongest coding model the company has built.