• October 8, 2026
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Anthropic Cuts Prices With Haiku 5.5 as It Nears an IPO

The model arrived on October 7 with a price tag attached to the announcement, which is not how Anthropic usually introduces its products. Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in…

  • October 8, 2026
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SpaceX’s Push for Launch Spectrum Meets Boeing, Lockheed and Hospitals

The filing arrived at the Federal Communications Commission on October 7 carrying a number that would have sounded absurd a decade ago: ten thousand launches a year. To reach that…

  • October 8, 2026
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Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Meets a Wall of Skepticism

Michael Burry, the investor who bet against the housing market before the 2008 crash, has a new target. A research firm has pegged Anthropic’s value at $150 billion, about 92%…

  • October 8, 2026
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The AI Chip Boom Is Moving to the Bond Market

The companies spending the most on artificial intelligence are increasingly borrowing to pay for it. Broadcom Inc. is in talks to arrange financing of more than $50 billion to fund…

  • October 8, 2026
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OpenAI’s New Model Turns Answers Into Things You Can Click

For two years, ChatGPT answered questions with text. On Oct. 7, OpenAI began pushing out a version that answers with interfaces. The company rolled out GPT-6 to every tier of…

  • October 8, 2026
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TSMC Sets Another Revenue Record as AI Demand Holds

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is running ahead of its own forecasts, and the gap keeps widening. On Oct. 8, the world’s largest contract chipmaker said September revenue rose 54.6% from…

  • October 8, 2026
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Samsung’s Profit Surges 782% as AI Chip Demand Outruns Supply

Samsung Electronics Co. crossed a line on Oct. 8 that no quarter of its history had ever reached. In its preliminary guidance for the third quarter, the company said operating…

  • October 8, 2026
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LG Energy Solution’s Profit Rises, With a Big Assist From Washington

LG Energy Solution Ltd. opened its third-quarter results on Oct. 8 with a number that looked like a clean turn in its favor: operating profit of 756 billion won, or…

  • October 8, 2026
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The Engineer Behind Tesla’s Optimus Leaves to Build Different Robots

Ashish Kumar spent years teaching Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot how to think. Now he is leaving the human shape behind. Kumar has co-founded a San Francisco startup, Intelligent Machines, that…

  • October 8, 2026
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SpaceX’s Borrowing Costs Jump as Chip-Financing Talks Rattle Bondholders

The headline was about chips, and the reaction came from the bond market. After reports that SpaceX is in talks with banks and investors to borrow $40 billion to buy…