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Anthropic Sued Over Claude's 'Misleading' $100-a-Month Subscription Limits
A class-action lawsuit claims Claude's Max plan promises dramatically expanded usage but buries critical restrictions in hard-to-find fine print. Subscribers say what they paid for and what they got are two different things.

Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in first teaser for AI biopic 'Artificial'
After Amazon dropped the film, Neon will release Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI biopic in US cinemas on Christmas Day, with a New York Film Festival premiere in October.

Google and Accenture Launch Joint Team to Put AI Engineers Inside Big Companies
Google holds just 6% of enterprise AI spending against rivals at nearly 40% each. A new unit training 1,000 dedicated engineers is its latest push to close the gap.

Mistral raises €3 billion to build AI that companies can keep behind their own walls
The French AI company closed the largest equity round in European tech history, led by Samsung, to expand its bet that businesses want powerful AI they can fully control.

A fire at a $3.2 billion AI data centre left firefighters going in blind
When a blaze broke out at a partly-built New York data centre, the local fire crew found no alarms, no sprinklers, three dead hydrants, and safety documents that had apparently burned along with everything else.

Talking to Your Phone Could Replace the Customer Feedback Form
A startup called Voicebox wants you to scan a QR code and say whatever you think, out loud, in about 20 seconds. Voice dictation has finally got good enough to make that work.

AI Is the Office Intern, Not the Boss: Why Designers Are Not Being Replaced
Business leaders say generative AI will handle grunt work and free up designers to do more creative thinking, not take their jobs.

Nvidia's investment portfolio hit $99 billion. Here is what it is buying and why.
The chip maker behind most of the world's AI hardware is now one of the biggest strategic investors in tech, committing more than $40 billion in 2026 alone.

Two-year-old British AI firm Nscale is chasing $3.5 billion before a possible IPO this month
The compute startup, founded in 2024, is in talks to raise $1.5 billion in convertible notes and $2 billion from Nvidia as it eyes a stock market listing.

The Real AI Bottleneck Is Not the Chip. It Is Where the Data Lives.
AI systems are straining under real-time demands, and the weak point is not processing power. It is memory, storage, and the pipes connecting them.

Anthropic's Planned IPO Puts a Powerful Outside Group of Trustees Under the Microscope
As Anthropic eyes a stock market debut that could value it at $2 trillion, investors are asking hard questions about an unusual arrangement: a small external board that controls the company's direction and answers to no shareholders.

Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbing
The company, which builds large-scale data centres for clients including OpenAI and Oracle, has tripled its valuation in under a year and is now weighing a stock market listing.

AI platform cuts delivery routing time from 20 minutes to two and a half
Logistics firm OneRail has launched OmniStar, built on Nvidia's AI software, to help retailers pick the cheapest and fastest delivery option for each order in near-real time.

SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customer
The AI data centre builder backed by SoftBank and its partners OpenAI and Nvidia is heading to the stock market while carrying heavy losses and a frank admission: its near-term future depends almost entirely on OpenAI.

Mira Murati's AI Lab Is in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $40 Billion Valuation
Thinking Machines, the startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, is reportedly seeking fresh funding at a valuation more than three times higher than its last round, even as some co-founders have left.