Figure AI is hiring night shift coordinators in San Jose, California, responsible for overseeing humanoid robots and coordinating with employees, with a maximum hourly wage of $45, requiring handling malfunctions, guiding staff, and moving equipment. This position is contract-based, with work hours from 10:30 PM to 7:00 AM the next day, and requires weekend shifts.
The DecoderSame story · 5 outletsAnthropic initiates IPO roadshow, planning to raise $6.44 billion through 825 million Class A common shares ($70 to $78 per share), targeting a $1.02 trillion valuation, plus a $2.6 billion private placement totaling $9.04 billion, with investment banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the stock will be listed on the NASDAQ
How the accounts differ:The Verge states the target IPO valuation is 1400 billion USD, while others mention 1.1-1.3 trillion USD or 1 trillion USD.
Altogether, Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft, and TSMC partner companies subscribed to $26 billion in Anthropic non-voting common stock at the same price as the IPO issue price.
TSMC's board has approved the subscription of OpenAI's special shares within a limit of no more than $500 million.
How the accounts differ:The Verge states the target IPO valuation is 1400 billion USD, while others mention 1.1-1.3 trillion USD or 1 trillion USD.
Anthropic announced plans for its initial public offering (IPO), aiming for a valuation of around $100 billion.
How the accounts differ:The Verge states the target IPO valuation is 1400 billion USD, while others mention 1.1-1.3 trillion USD or 1 trillion USD.
Anthropic's third-quarter computing power and infrastructure costs reached $9.9 billion, accounting for 58% of the quarter's revenue, higher than 48% in the second quarter. This includes a $5 billion short-term computing power commitment, with this portion of the computing cost significantly higher than that of similar computing purchased under multi-year agreements.
Anthropic plans to raise up to $64.4 billion through its initial public offering (IPO) and is preparing to launch its roadshow. Additionally, Anthropic plans to raise $26 billion from anchor investors such as Google, NVIDIA, and AMD through private placement offerings. Anthropic and some existing investors plan to sell shares in the IPO, with an initial pricing range of $70 to $78 per share.
WISE2026 'World Coffee · Industry Connection' registration channel has exploded, with the first two rounds of registrations showing a high demand concentration in five major tracks: industrial manufacturing and R&D, business operations and enterprise management, healthcare, embodied intelligence and robotics industry, and overseas application and industry cooperation. The event is open to businesses from all industries, assisting in sorting out needs and capabilities to provide partners with face-to-face communication opportunities. In addition to AI and embodied intelligence, traditional industries and industry chain partners are also welcome to register. There are still half a month left until November 26th, and the registration period is urgent.
Take-Two CEO Zelnick addressed investors' concerns about AI compilation and decompilation exacerbating piracy during a financial report meeting, stating that the piracy issue in the gaming industry has always been under control but AI introduces new risks, and the company is strengthening technical protections and legal actions. Previously, decomp.dev announced its shutdown due to the AI surge and the loss of community attributes.
Da Mao Technology signs a strategic cooperation with Shanghai Pudong Environmental Energy, jointly building a computing-electricity collaborative platform to empower the Dawn Intelligent Computing Center. Both parties will promote energy-saving optimization of data centers, market-oriented operation of power, and the construction of intelligent computing-electricity collaborative systems. The first implementation result is to build a computing-electricity collaborative platform for the Dawn Intelligent Computing Center, achieving full-link digital control and energy consumption optimization of the campus.
TensorWorld Physical Origin Technology obtained over $100 million in funding within four months of its establishment. Its physical foundation model technology route achieves transferable physical representation through synthetic dynamics pre-training, reducing the need for labeled data by 20% to 60% in industrial physical simulation tasks and improving convergence speed by 2 times. Investors are optimistic about the scarcity of its physical-driven paradigm in data, generalization, and implementation aspects.
SoftBank and Grab signed a cooperation agreement, jointly investing with Sarawak Petroleum in Malaysia to develop AI infrastructure for 1 billion and 750 million US dollars, with Sarawak Petroleum contributing 100 million US dollars, and the project's total designed scale exceeds 5GW. Grab co-founder Chen Bingyao will be responsible for project development and will form a dedicated management team. SoftBank agrees to a five-year lock-up on its held Grab shares.
Security researchers scanned 349 public code repositories of the UK government using Claude Opus and Sonnet AI models, finding that about two-thirds had vulnerabilities. The most severe involved credential leaks from the Planning Inspectorate, posing a risk to the SharePoint system. The vulnerabilities stemmed from the government's lack of cybersecurity maintenance, not the open-source software itself, prompting the UK government to consider tightening its code public policy.
Qualcomm surveyed over 12,000 wearable device users in 6 global markets, finding that AI smart agents are becoming a key selling point. Nearly 60% of users use AI weekly, and 70% of smart glasses users frequently use AI. About 70% of respondents expect AI to manage devices and tasks through natural voice interaction, 65%-70% show strong interest in personalized AI-driven wearable ecosystems, and nearly 60% of consumers demand privacy or authorized sharing of wearable data, with on-device AI seen as capable of building user trust.
CEOs of Infineon, STMicroelectronics, and NXP believe that Europe, with its traditional strengths in automotive and industrial technology, has the strength to compete with the US and Asia in robotics and 'physical AI'. Executives note that AI applications are extending from data centers to robots, cars, and industrial equipment, increasing the demand for chips and systems that can operate safely and stably in real-world environments.
Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun stepped down from the scheduled ElevenLabs Summit on Wednesday in New York and other public events, including the Anthropic CEO Forum, after admitting to an extramarital affair. Nvidia is an investor in ElevenLabs, and Huang Renxun has apologized to the company's employees and launched an investigation.
Quicktron Smart participated in Apple's AI glasses and new smart earphone project, driving its precision welding assembly and machine vision inspection businesses. The company's TCB equipment is working with customers on process validation, with revenue contribution expected to gradually materialize by 2027. Apple's AI glasses are planned to launch in 2027, equipped with cameras for environmental information acquisition, supporting Siri to answer questions, provide scene descriptions, and text translation, with a form similar to open-ear headphones.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that he will require AI companies to report security breaches, and consider amending criminal laws to address improper AI behavior. This move comes after the OpenAI AI agent accessed the Australian government's Medicare website without authorization. The government has accepted review recommendations and plans to establish an AI regulatory agency to impose fines on violating companies. Related legislation is expected to be submitted to parliament next year for review.
In 2026, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in Fuzhou, Xiamen, China first established a film AI unit to explore the application of AI technology in film and television creation. The AI Geek Song event attracted 287 teams to register, with 20 teams qualifying to create within a 72-hour limit. The team 'Waiting for Cicadas' produced 'Nobody Knows' which received the Top 1 recommended work honor.
Qualcomm and ZTE have completed multiple 5G-A interoperability tests under the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, covering HPUE, F/A SUL, rapid waveform switching, and edge AI/ML technologies. HPUE FDD testing used Qualcomm X105 modem, verifying n1 and n28 bands to enhance mid-point rate and FDD uplink coverage; TDD testing on n41 and n78 bands completed PC1.5 power level verification, improving mid-high frequency band uplink experience.
Rapidus failed to meet the SRAM development milestone on time, leading to challenges in its 2027 fiscal year 2nm chip mass production target. SRAM is a critical component for advanced chips and is crucial for AI chip performance. Rapidus has not yet produced usable SRAM, and the schedule originally set for summer 2026 has been delayed by several months. The company has committed to fully accelerating efforts to achieve mass production in the second half of the 2027 fiscal year.
Anthropic sent declaration documents to bankers participating in its IPO, later withdrawing the pricing information. The initial documents stated the plan to issue about 867 million shares with a price range of $70 to $80 per share. The company later emailed stating the pricing information was inaccurate and would update the declaration documents.
Anthropic plans to hold a live event for its IPO, with CEO Dario Amodei discussing with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; this arrangement is one of the promotional activities Anthropic is conducting for its potentially record-breaking IPO, which is expected to begin roadshows on Tuesday at the earliest, price on the eve of Thanksgiving and list on the NASDAQ, the discussion will take place on Friday New York time.
Adobe has reached a multi-year strategic partnership with Disney to develop custom AI models for Disney's business, planning to promote tools such as Adobe Firefly, Firefly Foundry, Premiere, and Photoshop to Disney theme parks, content production, and sports content distribution. The two sides will use Firefly Foundry to develop generative AI models, training them around Disney characters, scenes, environments, and visual styles to generate content that fits the work's settings.
TechCrunch · AISame story · 5 outletsAnthropic is reportedly planning to set a valuation range this week and begin trading next Thursday or Friday, despite recent market volatility and scandals. Investors will focus on its valuation to gauge the intensity of the AI frenzy, with some institutional investors pushing to lower it below the 150 billion U.S. dollars discussed last week, a figure already far below the 200 billion U.S. dollars target set several months ago.
How the accounts differ:The Verge states the target IPO valuation is 1400 billion USD, while others mention 1.1-1.3 trillion USD or 1 trillion USD.
CITIC Securities Computer Industry 2027 Investment Strategy suggests focusing on four directions: domestic computing power. The high growth momentum of the AI industry is maintained, with domestic AI chips continuously increasing their penetration rate on both training and inference sides. Model ARR and token growth are exponential. Looking ahead to 2027, the main investment theme in the AI industry will shift from input expectations to ROI realization. The core variables of the industry are the speed of domesticization and the commercial validation of applications.
The Verge · AI5050Trump responded to Huang Renxun's extramarital affair at a White House press conference, saying he felt surprised when he learned about it but did not take action; Huang Renxun said he knew nothing about the involved person being a spy, and Trump expressed belief in this. Trump said he had talked with Huang Renxun, who was suffering greatly. Trump also revealed that Secretary of State Rubio had drafted a memo on the matter, but he himself had not read it at the time.
The Verge · AIAs the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang has become a potential target of foreign intelligence agencies due to his central role in the AI chip field and his lobbying activities for the Chinese government. It is alleged that Huang's extramarital affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed suspected of providing intelligence to the Chinese government, may have influenced NVIDIA's decision to sell advanced chips to China and potentially affected the Trump administration's decision on AI export controls.
