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Anthropic has filed a public S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, opening its books for the first time. The Claude developer reported about $16.3bn of revenue in the six months to June and a net loss of $80.7bn, most of it tied to fair-value changes on convertible instruments rather than cash burn.
Sources AnthropicU.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionInvestmentNews
Harry Kane won the 2026 Ballon d'Or at the London Palladium, becoming the first English winner since Michael Owen in 2001 and only the fifth Englishman to take the prize.
Sources The IndependentESPN
Microsoft is offering a voluntary exit package to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce, in the United States, Canada, India and the United Kingdom, according to a memo from chief people officer Amy Coleman.
Sources MicrosoftReutersTechCrunch
Brent for December fell 1.2 per cent to $115.37 a barrel as a Saudi delegation led by defence minister Khalid bin Salman arrived in Tehran, with Pakistani and Turkish officials due to join the talks.
Sources PriceOfOilCNBC
Meta is seeking up to $95bn of new equity to fund data centres, cloud capacity and other AI infrastructure. The first phase is about $35bn, split between $22.5bn of Class A common stock and roughly $12.5bn of mandatory convertible preferred shares sold through forward-sale agreements.
Sources Meta Investor RelationsReuters
Apple has given the iPad mini its first OLED display: 8.5 inches, 1,200 nits peak brightness and an optional nano-texture finish, inside a 5.4mm body rated IP67 for water and dust.
Sources Apple Newsroom
US equities opened the week higher as Anthropic's filing revived the AI trade. The S&P 500 added 0.70 per cent to 7,676.77, the Nasdaq Composite 0.83 per cent to 26,169.38 and the Dow 0.28 per cent to 52,361.58.
Sources Reuters (via Yahoo Finance)
Police in Seoul have arrested seven people accused of using generative AI to break into about 90 organisations and steal 8.2 million records, the country's first large-scale AI-assisted hacking case.
Sources Yonhap News AgencyKorea JoongAng DailySeoul Economic Daily
Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley are arranging $63bn of financing to buy Broadcom accelerators and networking equipment that will be leased to Anthropic, with Blackstone providing the committed second-lien portion.
Sources Reuters (via WHBL)Reuters (via Central Oregon Daily)
The memory shortage is now cutting handset volumes. Samsung's mobile division has asked suppliers to trim fourth-quarter component deliveries by 20 to 30 per cent, and Apple has reportedly cut October orders for some iPhone 18 Pro parts by 15 to 20 per cent.
Sources The Korea HeraldMoneyToday
The United States' Pax Silica and China's World AI Cooperation Organization are pulling smaller economies into competing technology stacks, the Associated Press reports.
The second round of the DFB-Pokal is decided across Tuesday and Wednesday, with 16 places in the last 16 at stake and four all-Bundesliga ties in the draw. Borussia Dortmund host Werder Bremen on Tuesday at 20:45, shown by ZDF, while Hamburger SV meet Eintracht Frankfurt and third-tier Rot-Weiss Essen welcome RB Leipzig at 18:00.
Sources DFB
Tesla and Nvidia are putting a combined 3.7 trillion won, about $2.8bn, into Samsung Electro-Mechanics' chip-substrate capacity, according to Korean press reports.
Fleetwood Town host Premier League champions Arsenal on Tuesday in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup, the first competitive meeting between the clubs. The League Two side have won all three home ties without conceding, beating Chesterfield, Shrewsbury and Sheffield United at the 5,300-capacity Highbury Stadium.
Sources ArsenalFleetwood Town
Korean chipmakers led an early rebound in Seoul, with Samsung Electronics up 2.82 per cent and SK hynix up 3.45 per cent after the Philadelphia semiconductor index gained 2.82 per cent in New York.
Sources Seoul Economic Daily