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Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is Japan’s undisputed king of tech VC, but his personality contrasts sharply with the image you probably have of U.S. based tech investors. Descriptions from people who know him make him sound gentle and soft. He talks often about being sad and crying when things aren’t going well. Judging from a new report from Bloomberg, it sounds like insiders at Softbank are worried he’s about to do some of his worst crying in yea

OpenAI, one of the companies most responsible for pushing generative AI into the mainstream with its popular ChatGPT LLM, could file for an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this week. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on paperwork for an IPO. The company reportedly plans to file confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Excha

Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. is engaging in some unusual and creative equity-raising practices for a large, publicly traded company. Long story short: it’s raising gobs of investor money that it can put toward expanding its footprint in AI hardware. It plans to raise $80 billion via new “equity offerings” per Bloomberg. That includes $40 billion in new stock dripped into the stock market starting in the third quarter (meaning probably starting in

Last month, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon delivered a speech to the graduates of the Wharton School about how easily he can make music with artificial intelligence—a message that was not exactly well-received. During an appearance on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, the banker who moonlights as a DJ remixed the message to produce something that sounds a little more revolutionary—even if he’s probably full of shit. Near the end of his hour-long conversation

Despite an expected record-breaking IPO, SpaceX will still have to follow the rules and wait at least a year before it’s added to the S&P 500, the benchmark behind many Americans’ retirement funds S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Thursday that it is keeping its eligibility rules intact for the S&P 500 and several other major indexes. Indexes are benchmarks that track specific slices of the stock market. The best known is the S&P 500, which tracks 500 of the

Bernie Sanders is making the case in Washington that since modern AI systems were built using the intellectual and creative outputs of all of humanity, the revenues they generate should go directly to the people—not just to a small cohort of tech moguls. On Thursday, Senator Sanders—an Independent from Vermont—introduced a bill which, if passed, would create a sovereign wealth fund for the United States’ AI industry. The fund would be valued at roughly $7

When Anthropic first disclosed Mythos in April, it sent an anxious shockwave through much of the cybersecurity sector. The new AI model was allegedly so ruthlessly effective at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in existing software that the company said it was holding off on a public release and would only grant access to a small group of early testers, including the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Another wave of fear reverberated this

Anthropic's IPO is six times oversubscribed and on track to become the largest public offering in history View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 2026 Anthropic is on track for the largest IPO ever, with orders exceeding available shares by a factor of six. That's according to Bloomberg. The Claude developer and its co-founders aim to raise up to $64.4 billion through the public offering and another $26 billion via a private placement, wh

A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM. The significance the paper is groping toward is that this so-called “J-Space” inside Claude is sort of like one leading idea about human consciousness—global workspace theory. The J-Space, according to my reading of the paper, is an ostensibly brain-like separation between something more like automatic data-crunching in the backgro

A planned funding round at Hangzhou, China-based hedge fund and unexpected AI juggernaut DeepSeek has probably been cancelled. According to a very delicately worded Bloomberg report, this comes just on the heels of the supposed leak of a long, off-the-cuff conversation with the company’s reclusive founder and CEO, Liang Wenfeng, that went viral. The conversation in question would read as extremely dull to most people, but went viral for being more than a b

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Since the dawn of the new millennium, there have been at most several thousand startup tech companies across the U.S. that have achieved unicorn status—crossing the $1 billion valuation. Eric Lefkofsky, 55, the Chicago-based serial entrepreneur best known for co-founding online daily deals site Groupon, has given rise to six of them, evolving from discount coupons for pedicures to potentially lifesaving cancer treatments

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new report from Stanford Medicine’s Brainstorm Lab and the tech safety-focused nonprofit Common Sense Media found that leading AI chatbots can’t be trusted to provide safe support for teens wrestling with their mental health. The risk assessment focuses on prominent general-use chatbots: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta AI, and Anthropic’s Claude. Using teen test accounts, expert

SpaceX has agreed to begin removing the temporary gas turbines powering part of its massive Colossus AI data center complex. But the last of them may stay up until July 2027. Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite, and AI company announced Thursday that it had entered into an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality establishing a timeline for removing all 69 mobile turbines at its power facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The Southaven po

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Several major companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and competitor Anthropic — are eyeing enormous stock market debuts as soon as next year, all vying to attain an astronomical valuation north of $100 billion. In late October, OpenAI was rumored to be laying the groundwork for a mammoth IPO that would boost its value to $1 trillion, further raising the stakes as the AI industry is starting to struggle t

In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation, it’s being reported that Anthropic might soon buy the AI lab Decart for roughly $6 billion. Decart doesn’t promote itself via the sort of drab, enterprise-focused coding and productivity tools you may associate with the home of Claude Code. Anthropic has never released an image generator, let alone

Getty / Futurism AI companies are looking to spend trillions of dollars on data centers to power their increasingly resource-intensive AI models — an astronomical amount of money that could threaten the entire economy if the bet doesn’t pay off. As the race to spend as much money as possible on AI infrastructure rages on, companies have become increasingly desperate to keep the cash flowing. Firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Oracle are exhausting existing

The downfall of the world’s most famous adherent of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was a cataclysmic astroid strike, dismantling one of Effective Altruism’s leading institutions and leaving the movement in ruins. After Bankman-Fried’s 2023 fraud conviction , and his broader heel turn, it’s become common to see people speak about effective altruism in the past tense, as if it’s a dead religion or a fad that simply ra

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apparently told Time’s Alex Heath, “I think it’s a good time to slow down.” That story, published Tuesday, was about OpenAI slowing down model development in light of recent safety headaches, such as its agents apparently taking a turn for the rebellious during safety evaluations. But OpenAI’s journey to profitability may also be slowing down, according to an anonymously sourced Wall Street Journal story published Tuesday.

Getty Images After being merged with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, SpaceX is gearing up for a $1.25 trillion IPO — but since the entity is still currently private, it’s remained mostly out of reach of everyday investors. But Powerlaw Corp, a fund that owns stakes in buzzy and not-yet-public companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, is giving retail traders an early taste of what could be in store for them. As Bloomberg reports, the $1.2 billion fund