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Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it turned a profit, the Financial Times reported. At up to $2 trillion, that quarter annualized puts the listing near 30 times sales.
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General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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Google's AI news program now includes more than 400 publications, with CNN, Axios and the Financial Times the latest to join. Google will pay participants, though financial terms were not disclosed.
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CoreWeave co-founder Brannin McBee told the Financial Times the company wants insurers' "unlimited" capital to reach 8 GW by 2030. Insurers can buy chip-backed loans only with investment-grade ratings, and the 2032 bond closed at 14.5% on October 13.
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Marine Le Pen says she would cut France's EU budget contribution by 11 billion euros in 2027 if she wins next year's presidential election. France's public debt is already 119% of GDP, and economists cited by the FT call her savings plan unrealistic.
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A central bank analysis found 55.2% of AI-firm investment came from other AI firms, a commentary on channelnewsasia.com reports. Nvidia's $30 billion OpenAI stake and up to $105 billion guarantee add to as much as $135 billion tied to its own chip demand.
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Kraken parent Payward is buying Saldo Finance, owner of a Lithuanian bank, at an undisclosed price, with closing expected in 2027. Closing needs regulatory approvals, and one deal is thin evidence that exchanges now buy banks.
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The 10-year Treasury yield reached about 5.22% from 4.75% in August, a level last seen in 2007, Axios reported. Wall Street analysts say heavy AI borrowing could make financing harder for the government, other companies and households.
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Leaked records show the Kremlin-backed A7 network listing UK fintech Wooshpay as a payment route to China and Hong Kong, capped at $50,000 a day. The published documents do not settle whether Wooshpay knew, so its partners have only the listing to assess.
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OpenAI says its annualized revenue run rate is about $50 billion, not the $70 billion in earlier reports, a $20 billion gap that weighed on AI stocks. The higher figure was an estimate investors built to compare OpenAI with Anthropic, so the stocks moved on the gap between an outside estimate and OpenAI's own number.
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Chancellor John Healey has internally ruled out aligning capital gains tax with income tax before the 28 October Budget, the Financial Times reported. The Treasury has not confirmed it, so sellers can treat full alignment as unlikely this quarter while waiting for the Budget statement itself.
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Starbucks has denied the Financial Times report that it worked with advisors on a Chipotle takeover; Chipotle has declined to comment. Two of the three finance executives in Chipotle's 2024 succession plan have since left, so any reunion with Brian Niccol would be partial.
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The FT's Katie Martin says the S&P 500 without its AI component has fallen 7% since the end of August while the index itself hit a record. On her account, stocks, real estate and infrastructure are one AI position under different labels.
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Reuters estimates US banks would pay $79 billion more in annual interest if AI agents moved $3.8 trillion of savings into 4% accounts. That is enough to erase the net income of 32 banks, but only if every dollar of that pool moves.
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OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September, short of the $68 billion to $70 billion reported last month. Oracle and OpenAI's chip suppliers fell 3% to 6% on Thursday on the strength of a private company's investor deck.
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Starbucks said it is not buying Chipotle, days after the Financial Times reported it had hired advisers to work on a takeover proposal. Chipotle, valued at $47 billion, did not immediately respond, and Starbucks reports Q4 results with FY27 guidance later this month.
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Japan's government told ministries, local authorities and companies to patch known flaws and tighten supplier security after 20-plus firms disclosed attacks. For operators the practical items are supplier maps, contractor logins and how long ID images are kept.
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is seeking up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for a new AI acquisition fund, the Financial Times reported. Outside money would pay for the next deals, while SoftBank's own balance sheet still carries the debt it took on to buy into OpenAI.
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FCA has held talks with prediction-market operators as Polymarket and Kalshi explore UK entry, the Financial Times reported. Its 2026 perimeter report classed the financial products it examined as binary options, banned for retail clients since 2019.
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Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI or add to the $800 million it has already invested, the Financial Times reported. Owning the open-weight lab, last valued at $25 billion, would put the chipmaker in the model business alongside the AI labs that buy its GPUs.
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