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Anthropic’s Private Shares Soar to $185 Amid AI Frenzy – $183B Valuation, Major Deals & $1.5B Lawsuit

Anthropic’s Record-Breaking Rise: $13B Mega-Funding, Big Tech Deals & the AI Showdown in 2025

Anthropic Developments and News as of November 3, 2025 In summary, Anthropic in late 2025 stands as a centerpiece of the global AI drama – a startup-turned-goliath with extraordinary funding, big-tech allies, and cutting-edge AI models, all vying to shape the future of AI. Its recent moves – from mega-financing and TPU mega-clusters to enterprise-friendly AI tools – illustrate both the immense potential and the grand challenges of the AI revolution. As Anthropic races OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI and others, the world will be watching to see if this safety-focused upstart can lead in innovation without losing its soul to
3 November 2025
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Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

Apple Nears $4 Trillion as Record Market Awaits Big Tech Earnings Showdown

Market Hits Record Highs Ahead of Earnings Wall Street enters this week in a euphoric mood. Major indices closed at record highs on Monday, with the Nasdaq up 1.4%, S&P 500 +0.8%, and Dow +0.5% ts2.tech. Investor sentiment has been boosted by hopes that a U.S.–China trade truce is imminent and by confidence that the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy. News that President Trump and China’s Xi plan to meet on Oct. 30 to hash out a trade deal “clearly boosted sentiment,” powering rallies in trade-sensitive tech and industrial stocks ts2.tech ts2.tech. At the same time, a cooler-than-expected inflation
27 October 2025
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IBM Stock Soars on Quantum Breakthrough and AI Revival – Key Updates (Sept 25, 2025)

IBM’s AI Revolution Sends Stock Soaring as Big Blue Takes on Tech Giants

Stock Performance: Riding High into October IBM’s stock has been on a steady upswing and enters October 2025 trading near its highest levels in years. The stock closed at $288.37 on Friday, Oct 3 markets.financialcontent.com, essentially flat to slightly up over the past few days. It’s hovering just shy of its 52-week peak (around $296) after a late-September jump. In fact, IBM briefly hit an intraday high near $296 in late September when news of a quantum computing breakthrough with HSBC sparked a rally of over 5% in a single day ts2.tech. As of the first week of October, shares are
6 October 2025
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Game-Changing AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Surprises & Global AI Showdowns (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Game-Changing AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Surprises & Global AI Showdowns (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Breakthrough: AI Finds Consciousness in ‘Unresponsive’ Patients One of the week’s most striking research breakthroughs came from Stony Brook University, where scientists unveiled an AI system called SeeMe that can detect “covert consciousness” in patients with acute brain injuries news.stonybrook.edu. In a study of 37 coma patients, SeeMe’s computer vision algorithms analyzed subtle, involuntary facial muscle movements in response to verbal commands (like “open your eyes”), movements so slight they’re invisible to the naked eye news.stonybrook.edu. Remarkably, the tool identified signs of awareness 4–8 days earlier than standard bedside neurological exams news.stonybrook.edu news.stonybrook.edu. Lead researcher Dr. Sima Mofakham explained the
10 September 2025
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AI Stocks Shake Markets: Big Tech Surges, Mega-Deals, and Bubble Warnings (Sept 7–8, 2025)

AI Stocks Shake Markets: Big Tech Surges, Mega-Deals, and Bubble Warnings (Sept 7–8, 2025)

AI Stock Market Performance: Rallies, Slumps & Record Volume The past few days highlighted just how volatile – and influential – AI-focused stocks have become across global markets. In the U.S., major “AI winner” companies saw mixed fortunes. On Friday, Broadcom (AVGO) stunned the market with a +9.4% surge after revealing a massive new $10 billion order for its AI chips and hiking its sales outlook reuters.com. That blockbuster order (from an unnamed customer) reinforced Broadcom’s status as a backbone of AI data centers, and its stock jump helped lift tech indexes even as broader markets wobbled. The company’s quarterly results
8 September 2025
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AI Stock Frenzy: $10 B Deals Ignite Rally as Big Tech Sounds Alarm

AI Stock Frenzy: $10 B Deals Ignite Rally as Big Tech Sounds Alarm

Key Facts Broadcom’s $10 B Order Ignites AI Stock Rally Broadcom became the week’s biggest AI stock story after disclosing a $10 billion order for custom AI chips from an unnamed “new customer” – widely presumed to be OpenAI – and projecting above-consensus sales next quarter. Its shares soared 9.4% on Friday in response, buoying the broader tech sector even as overall indexes ended slightly down. The mega-deal validates the explosive demand for AI infrastructure, given that training advanced models like ChatGPT requires enormous compute power. Analysts cheered Broadcom’s fortunes as a sign that the AI boom is far from peaking. CEO
7 September 2025
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Tech Shockwaves: Space Triumphs, Cyber Strikes, and Big Tech Bombshells Rock Weekend (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Tech Shockwaves: Space Triumphs, Cyber Strikes, and Big Tech Bombshells Rock Weekend (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts In-Depth Report Space & Telecom: Historic Reusability and the Satellite Internet Race SpaceX’s 500th Landing: SpaceX achieved a new reusability milestone on Sept. 5 by successfully landing an orbital booster for the 500th time space.com. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted 28 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center, then its first-stage booster touched down ~8½ minutes later on the Just Read the Instructions droneship – the 27th flight and landing for that particular booster, and SpaceX’s 500th orbital-class landing overall space.com. This achievement – reached just 3 years after the 100th landing – underscores how routine (and cost-saving) rocket reusability has become
7 September 2025
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AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Summary Authors vs. AI: $1.5 Billion Settlement and New Copyright Battles Content creators scored a major victory against AI firms.Anthropic – maker of the Claude chatbot – agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who alleged the startup illegally downloaded millions of pirated books to train its AI bloomberg.com. The unprecedented deal (about $3,000 per book for ~500,000 titles) is being called the largest-ever copyright recovery in the AI field axios.com ts2.tech. Under the agreement, Anthropic will delete all illicit book data taken from shadow libraries and pay authors for past use axios.com. “This settlement
7 September 2025
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SpaceX Launch Frenzy, Big Tech Showdowns, and Tesla’s Robotaxi Gambit – Tech News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

SpaceX Launch Frenzy, Big Tech Showdowns, and Tesla’s Robotaxi Gambit – Tech News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Key Facts Google Dodges Breakup, But Faces $425 Million Privacy Verdict Alphabet’s Google scored a major legal victory in its landmark U.S. antitrust case, avoiding a forced breakup of its empire. On Sept 2, Judge Amit Mehta ruled against splitting up Google’s core businesses, allowing it to retain control of Android, Chrome, Search and more ts2.tech. The judge opted for lighter remedies (like curbing certain exclusive deals) instead of the “scorched-earth” approach of dismantling the company. Markets rejoiced – Alphabet shares rocketed 9%, adding over $200 billion in value ts2.tech. Analysts called it a pragmatic outcome. “This removes a significant legal overhang and
5 September 2025
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Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 3–4, 2025): Fines, Launches & Big Tech Moves

Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 3–4, 2025): Fines, Launches & Big Tech Moves

Google Dodges Antitrust Breakup, Shares Soar Alphabet, Google’s parent company, won a major reprieve in its landmark U.S. antitrust case. On Sept 2, Judge Amit Mehta ruled against breaking up Google, allowing it to retain control of Android and Chrome reuters.com. The decision lifted a huge cloud of uncertainty: Alphabet stock rocketed over 9% in one day, adding about $210 billion in value reuters.com. The ruling permits Google to keep paying partners like Apple to make Google the default search, though it bans some exclusive deals reuters.com. Analysts cheered the “pragmatic” remedy. “This outcome removes a significant legal overhang and signals the
4 September 2025
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AI Revolution Roundup: GPT-5, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Big Tech Showdowns – Top Stories (Sept 2–3, 2025)

AI Revolution Roundup: GPT-5, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Big Tech Showdowns – Top Stories (Sept 2–3, 2025)

Consumer AI: New Tools for Translation and Shopping Both Google and Amazon introduced significant AI-powered features for everyday users. Google Translate added major upgrades that blur the line between translator and language teacher. Users can now carry on a conversation with someone in another language, and the app will automatically translate both sides in real-time with spoken audio and on-screen text ts2.tech. Google also unveiled an AI-driven practice mode that acts as a personal tutor – generating interactive listening and speaking exercises tailored to the user’s skill level, directly challenging Duolingo’s AI language lessons ts2.tech ts2.tech. These beta features launched
3 September 2025
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Global AI News: Flirty Chatbot Scandal, Major Breakthroughs & Big Tech Showdowns (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Global AI News: Flirty Chatbot Scandal, Major Breakthroughs & Big Tech Showdowns (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Key Facts Business and Industry Developments Meta’s AI strategy – build, buy, or partner: Meta Platforms pursued a multi-pronged approach to AI. It signed a deal to license Midjourney’s image-generation technology, integrating the startup’s “aesthetic” imaging tools into Meta’s future products reuters.com reuters.com. At the same time, Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs team has explored partnerships with rivals: internal discussions considered using Google’s Gemini and even OpenAI’s models to power Meta’s AI assistant features reuters.com reuters.com. A Meta spokesperson confirmed an “all-of-the-above” approach – developing its own world-class models (like the upcoming Llama 5) while also collaborating externally and open-sourcing when
30 August 2025
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