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Anthropic reported third-quarter revenue of $17bn and an operating loss of $567m, and put its commitments at $895.4bn, almost all for computing.
Brent fell 7.63% to $104.77 on hopes of an Iran deal, and a US official later confirmed defensive strikes on Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz.
MIT researchers showed GPT-6 Astra editing 0.016% of a small model’s weights without gradients, lifting its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%.
Four MIT researchers report that a frontier model can read and rewrite neural network weights without gradients or training. Critics call the claim overstated.
Full storySource: Anthropic filing, via Yahoo Finance.
Broadcom leads with about $161bn of equipment leases, ahead of Google at about $121bn. The figure for SpaceX’s AI unit, $120.5bn, is a ceiling, and Amazon follows at $110bn.
Chollet wrote that a grating habit of language model prose is turning each sentence into a witty slogan, with no regard for which sentences need emphasis.
LeCun said words are discrete objects associated with thoughts, and that the sense of thinking verbally is an illusion.
Anthropic’s amended IPO filing shows third-quarter revenue of $17bn, up from $11.6bn in the second quarter, and an operating loss after one profitable quarter.
· Fortune · Yahoo FinanceNew risk language in the filing says Anthropic may imminently meet its policy’s definition of progress dramatically accelerated by AI, while no current model is designated above that threshold.
· TechCrunchThe new agent benchmark covers 206 tasks in 11 domains, including finance and quant trading. Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0%, with Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9% for about a third of the cost.
· GDPx · Unite.AIOpenAI said it will use its own models in an internal sprint with Cathedral Systems to find and fix vulnerabilities, and more than quadrupled rewards for critical findings.
OpenAI on X · AlphaSignalClosed-form, nonasymptotically valid intervals for sub-Gaussian means under martingale dependence match the Gaussian width \(\sigma z_{1-\alpha/2}/\sqrt{n}\) to first order, adapting to the true standard deviation.
Across nine models and three classification tasks, enabling reasoning raises agreement between models, while individuals who elicit longer reasoning traces receive less consistent predictions.
Overlapping multi-day scenarios shift expected shortfall estimates systematically downward, weakening capital coverage. Serial dependence acts the same way and heavy tails amplify both effects.
For random walks with positive drift, the deepest and longest drawdown episodes are eventually distinct under light tails but coincide with probability tending to one under heavy tails.
WTI settled at $96.46 and Brent at $104.77 on Monday on hopes of a deal with Iran. After the close, a US official told AP of defensive strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.
The PHLX Semiconductor index closed at 10,328.33 on Monday. About 7 in 10 S&P 500 stocks rose, yet the index fell 0.51%, with Intel down 8.8%.
Apple reported revenue of $114.48bn, up 12%, in John Ternus’s first results as CEO, and warned of lower margins in the holiday quarter. Shares ended the extended session down 2.81%.
· 9to5Mac: the results · 9to5Mac: the sharesThe ISM manufacturing index rose a percentage point in October, its tenth month of expansion, with production at its highest since November 2021 and the prices index still elevated.
· Institute for Supply Management