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AI Business

Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price

The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.

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AI2Day OriginalAI Business

AI as a business story quadrupled on our site this week. Here's what we actually wrote about.

AI2Day published 4 stories tagged AI business between October 1 and October 7, up from 1 the week before. Four different outlets carried the thread. That is signal worth checking, not a trend worth betting on.

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AI Business

Sam Altman Called Cerebras a 'Close Partner' and Stopped a 20% Slide

Four sentences from OpenAI's CEO lifted Cerebras stock 6.3% in premarket trading. The margin numbers still need to improve before the rally means anything.

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AI Business

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won't Go Public Until Its AI Is Safe Enough

The CEO has tied an IPO to safety milestones with no date attached. That is a significant promise from a company that needs cash and has had a rough few weeks.

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AI Security

Anthropic's IPO Filing Warns Its Own AI Could Try to Blackmail People and Resist Being Shut Down

The company's draft prospectus reportedly devotes nearly a third of its pages to risk factors, including behaviours its models have already shown. Revenue hit $4.6 billion in 2025. The losses were larger.

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AI Business

Sam Altman says taking OpenAI public in 2026 would be 'ill-advised'

The CEO cited AI safety concerns and a turbulent market as reasons to wait, even as the company has already begun formal IPO paperwork with regulators.

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Frontier Labs

Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO this year and says uncontrollable AI is possible

The OpenAI chief told Fortune that 2026 is the wrong moment to go public, and admitted that an AI system beyond human control could theoretically be built. He promised to halt development before that happens.

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AI Business

AI's doom warnings are getting louder. Are they real, or just a strange kind of bragging?

An Anthropic researcher quit over existential fears, his old employer's alignment lead said there's a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all, and an IPO is weeks away. A TechCrunch podcast asked the obvious question: does anyone actually believe this?

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Robotics

Wang Xingxing Built the World's Cheapest Humanoid Robots. Now the Question Is Whether He Can Let Go.

Wang Xingxing built China's leading humanoid robot company by controlling everything, down to screw lengths. A rare deep-dive by a Chinese financial magazine asks whether that approach can scale.

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AI Business

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.

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AI Business

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.

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AI Business

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.

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AI Business

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.

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AI Business

ChatGPT Will Now Show Ads to Free Users in India

OpenAI is rolling out advertisements inside ChatGPT for its free and low-cost subscribers in India, starting with 50 brands and a self-serve ad tool arriving next month.

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AI Business

OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Losing Executives Even Faster. Here's Why.

More than a dozen senior leaders have left OpenAI since January. The company's co-founder is quietly picking up the pieces, and a closely-watched stock market debut hangs over everything.

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