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Anthropic IPO: Amazon’s $6.2B Notes, Alphabet’s $10B [2026]

Anthropic filed its final IPO paperwork on October 26, 2026, and the proposed Nasdaq ticker is ANT, according to CNBC’s live coverage of the filing. The document skips the numbers most traders want first. It names no share price, no share count and no company valuation. What the filing does show is who has been…

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Slate x Smarties: 6 Candy Wraps for EV Trucks [2026]

Slate Auto has found a new way to make a plain electric pickup look like a pack of candy. According to Engadget, the company is partnering with Smarties on six pastel vehicle-wrap shades for the Slate, its two-door electric truck built around customization. The announcement landed on October 27, 2026, and it is the clearest…

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Verizon Rules Out Starlink MVNO, Eyes 4-6 Year Fight [2026]

Verizon’s chief executive left a door open and bolted another one shut on the same day. According to a report on Verizon CEO Dan Schulman’s comments about Starlink, he sees ways to work with satellite providers, including Elon Musk’s service. He also said Verizon will not hand any satellite provider an MVNO deal. The remarks…

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iPad mini in Japan: ¥119,800 Start, Nov. 6 Launch [2026]

Apple has given the iPad mini an OLED screen and the A20 Pro chip, and Japan is where the price tag landed first. According to ASCII.jp’s English edition, the new iPad mini starts at ¥119,800 including tax for the Wi-Fi model, with the Wi-Fi + Cellular version beginning at ¥144,800 including tax. Pre-orders in Japan…

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Function Calling on 4 LLMs: 13 Steps, 60 Min [2026]

Function calling lets a language model ask your code to run a tool, then read the result and keep working. Every major vendor ships it, but the request formats differ in exactly the details that break code. On October 27, 2026 the four newest models you are likely to wire up are GPT-6.1 Sol on…

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Cowboy Space Big Iron: 20,000 Satellites Planned [2026]

Cowboy Space Corporation has unveiled Big Iron, a stainless steel launch vehicle whose upper stage stays in orbit as a megawatt-class data center, SpaceNews reported on October 27, 2026. The rocket is the delivery system for Stampede, the company’s proposed orbital data center constellation, and Cowboy Space has already filed an FCC application covering 20,000…

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AI Super PACs Clash: $125M vs $100M+ in Primaries [2026]

The Silicon Valley AI political groups that spent the year lining up behind friendly candidates are now spending against each other. CNBC reported on October 27 that Leading the Future, Public First Action and Innovation Council Action backed rival candidates in at least six primary races where their preferred picks competed head to head. That…

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Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta as part of expanded AI partnership amid Zuckerberg’s $97.5 billion fundraising push

Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta as Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant prepares one of the largest equity fundraising efforts in corporate history to finance its growing artificial intelligence ambitions. The investment, announced Tuesday, deepens a relationship between two […] The post Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta as part of expanded AI…

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