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Anthropic begins testing IPO waters, hires specialist firm that helped Google

Anthropic has started laying the groundworks for an initial public offering. — With a valuation north of $300 billion, Anthropic would be one of the world’s largest IPOs. (Picture: generated)

Just as the AI lab is chasing a funding round said to value it at more than $300 billion, The Financial Times reports they are also considering going public.

This stems from hiring Wilson Sonsini, which assisted Google and LinkedIn in their initial public offerings, and apparently having talks with «big investment banks.» They have also hired Krishna Rao, the former Airbnb executive who played a key role in their IPO in 2020, CNBC says.

The timeline does not seem clear, while the report indicates that it could happen as soon as 2026, it also notes that the talks are in informal and early stages.

Anthropic has 300,000 business and enterprise customers, and is aiming to triple its annual revenue to around $26 billion next year, Reuters writes.

Its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, and would be a test of investors’ appetite for loss-making companies with huge investment bills, FT notes.

Read more: Scoop by The Financial Times, writeups from Reuters and CNBC.

SoftBank sold $5.83 billion of its Nvidia stock in October: Here’s why

People were thinking SoftBank had seen a bubble forming. Far from it, according to its CEO. — The massive stock sale fueled a lot of rumors and worries. (Picture: generated)

Known for its massive stakes in emerging technologies, SoftBank’s disclosure of the sale caused a 2% dip in Nvidia’s share price and inflated talk of an AI bubble.

Now CEO Masayoshi Son has revealed that it certainly wasn’t because they were taking profit before any downturn. On the contrary:

— I was crying to sell Nvidia shares, he told the FII Priority Asia forum in Tokyo, and says he «didn’t want to sell a single share,» adding that «I respect Jensen, I respect Nvidia so much,» according to Business Insider.

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Altman declares «Code Red» at OpenAI, plans Gemini 3-beating model

OpenAI has put ads on hold until it can release a Gemini 3-beating model. — All other initiatives are on hold as OpenAI prepares its next model. (Picture: generated)

Competition is heating up in the AI chatbot market, as highlighted in the last weeks, with new, capable models from Google, Anthropic, and a new Codex Max from OpenAI.

This has now caused Altman to delay other initiatives, such as ads, to focus on making a better ChatGPT, paywalled The Information writes, citing an internal memo.

They are apparently planning to release a new reasoning model next week that will be «ahead of Gemini 3.» But this needs a little more polishing on the «experience.»

Just last week, a developer revealed ad code in the latest ChatGPT beta — meaning that their work on ads was fairly advanced and almost ready to ship.

This work is now on the back burner, at least until next week, when OpenAI hopes to reclaim their crown.

Read more: The Information (paywalled), and Reuters. Discussion on r/Singularity.

Runway announces Gen-4.5, goes straight to top of video leaderboard

You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.

They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.

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Surf like its 2022 with this plugin — with a cutoff on ChatGPT launch

Slop Evader ignores all content created after 2022. A draconic way to skip the AI slop. — By setting the clock back some three years, you are guaranteed an experience without AI slop. (Picture: screenshot)

While ChatGPT is celebrating its three year anniversary, one of the unfortunate side effects has been mountains of AI-written slop all over the web.

This is often known as the Dead Internet Theory, or the Great Enshittification, caused by tonnes of low cost, low effort AI-created internet content.

Enter this new plugin, Slop Evader, which can take control of searches on Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange and Pinterest, and set responses to only show content from before November 30, 2022.

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Three years since the debut of ChatGPT 3 — the first AI chatbot

Little did OpenAI know of how the AI age was about to ignite with their research bot. — ChatGPT was launched on an unsuspecting world some three years ago today, and promtly exploded in users. (Picture: Generated)

If you’re in the USA, today marks the third birthday of the first ChatGPT bot from OpenAI, on November 30, 2022.

It was launched «expecting a small research audience,» OpenAI’s Nick Turley says on x.com, but «within hours, the usage was far beyond anything we’d prepared for.»

Launch page is still live
On the preserved introduction page at OpenAI, it says «we are presenting ChatGPT, and look forward to feedback from users to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of the model.»

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Developer finds ad references in latest ChatGPT beta

ChatGPT with ads? They could actually pay for more features while offering a revenue stream for OpenAI. — These little lines of code could be a harbinger of ads on the ChatGPT app. (Picture: Tibor Blaho)

This seems unconfirmed by anyone else, but strongly suggests that OpenAI is working on an ads product for their chatbot.

Tibor Blaho discovered the changes in the beta app for Android while doing routine versioning work for his job at AIPRM.com, which integrates tightly with ChatGPT.

He also likes to «share what is coming next with people who care about ChatGPT and Claude news.»

The new code indicates an ads «bazaar,» and a «SearchAd» with a «SearchAdsCarousel.»

Presumably, ads would begin rolling out on the free version of ChatGPT, where it could pay for offering more features. Or there could be affiliate marketing in the shopping links they just announced.

Google is already rolling out ads on their AI products, and Copilot and Perplexity have started using ads on shopping and follow-up-questions, notes Blaho.

Read more: Tibor Blaho’s x.com post, Bleeping Computer, discussion on r/Singularity.

Google puts «test» ads in AI Mode — and they use AI for targeting

Google's ads in AI Mode have been spotted in the wild, yet Google is already serving ads in Overviews. — Ads are the lifeblood of Google and this was only a question of time. (Picture: Adobe)

If you’ve been using AI Mode or AI Overviews this week, you might have seen something familiar from Google: Ads.

Google has long been signaling their intent to start experimenting with ads in AI outputs, and thinks some relevant ads might be sufficient.

These ads can appear above, beneath and within the results, Google says. And adds:

— For ads to show within the AI Overviews, the ads must additionally be relevant to the content of the AI Overviews.

For Google’s AI Mode, they are still «testing» and have been running with select ads since May, 2025, writes Engadget.

To match you with relevant ads, or even glean some kind of intent from your query, Google uses AI, and then relies on its deep catalog of advertisers to find a match.

U.S. patent office: AI is like any other tool, and can’t hold patents

AI is just another tool, says the USPTO, and it cannot legally hold patents. — The patent for AI discoveries should go to the user, the USPTO says in a filing. (Picture: Adobe)

The USPTO is out with new guidelines on AI, reported by Reuters, and says quite frankly that AI use is like any other tool, like «computer software, research databases» that «assists in the inventive process.»

They go on to say that AI may «provide services and generate ideas, but they remain tools used by the human inventor who conceived the claimed invention.»

Therefore, AI itself can’t be considered an inventor under current U.S. laws, the document says.

In a departure from Biden administration policies, where AI could be considered a co-inventor, the patent office now says «there is no separate or modified standard for AI-assisted inventions.»

That should mean that using AI to concieve of an invention means the user gets the patent, as with any other tool. This has yet to be tested in U.S. courts, Reuters reports.

Read more: The patent notice, writeups by Reuters, Engadget.

AI will be involved in nearly all future games, says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney

Tim Sweeney of Epic Games says we might as well disclose what kind of shampoo the developer uses in relation to labelling AI use. — Arc Raiders discloses AI use in development on Steam. (Picture: screenshot)

Weighing in on platforms like Steam’s policy of labeling games that use AI, Sweeney opined on x.com that AI will become ubiquitous in gaming:

— It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.

He went on to say that the only place where labeling makes sense is for art exhibits and content licensing marketplaces «where buyers need to understand the rights situation.»

Stores like Steam and Itch.io have been allowing games made with AI since January 2024, Games Industry Biz writes, but they require developers to disclose its use.

They further write that, as of July 2025, about seven percent of games on the Steam store use AI in some way, compared to just one percent in the previous year.

Read more: context at Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer and Games Industry Biz.

AI could already displace 11.7% of the US workforce, MIT survey finds

AI savings are ramping up, and this could only be the beginning. — AI could replace jobs totaling $1.2 trillion in wages, the study finds. (Picture: Adobe)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released a new report on a simulation of workforce roles that finds over ten per cent could be replaced by AI as it stands today, CNBC reports.

Not content with taking over 30% of coding work, this new survey simulates interactions between 151 million workers across the USA and how they are affected by AI.

The survey initially finds that role shifts in tech, computing and information technology amounts to 2.2% of wage expenditures, but when you add in support functions like human resources, logistics, finance and administration the number grows significantly.

The survey is not meant to predict exactly whose jobs will go, but to give a snapshot for policymakers about what AI already can do — today, not tomorrow.

The total number for this 11.7% workforce reduction is a reduced wage bill of $1.2 trillion.

Read more: get the full, detailed story on CNBC. See also: tag/work.

AI slop can ruin genuine recipes — and Thanksgiving

AI can offer impossible or unworkable recipes, so it's better to get your cooking guidance from expert pros instead of AI slop. — Always double check AI information — especially when it comes to what you eat. (Picture: Adobe)

Beware of AI generated recipes, Bloomberg writes.

This season is the first where AI use is prevalent, and while it might seem to offer easy guides, real recipe writers are sounding the alarm that AI slop is often just plain wrong — and sometimes also dangerous.

In practice, human expert recipe bloggers have seen their traffic drop from 40 to 80% on their Thanksgiving recipes — at a time when you should probably double check your information, and your common sense.

So, when Google’s AI overview tells you to bake a cake at three to four hours on 160°C, it is probably time to touch grass — or maybe the charcoal that would ensue.

Read more: Original reporting by Bloomberg, summary by Gizmodo.

OpenAI can’t use the word «Cameo» inside and outside of Sora

OpenAI is now barred from using the "Cameo" word, which is a major feature in the Sora 2 generator — Sora 2 is barred from making use to the term until December 22, when a new hearing will be held. (Picture: generated)

Sora’s launch wasn’t just about the ability to make realistic short-form videos, but heavily featured the «Cameo» ability.

This lets you create custom characters of friends or yourself and re-use your «Cameo» in different settings.

Not so fast, said the makers of the real «Cameo,» which sells custom-made celebrity videos or greetings. This is their whole business model, and they promptly sued to get their name back.

Now, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee has granted a temporary restraining order on the use of the word by OpenAI — inside the app and elsewhere — until a hearing can be held on whether or not the ban should be made permanent on December 22.

Read more: scoop by CNBC, writeups by Engadget and Gizmodo

Warner Music Group and AI music app Suno drop lawsuits, start partnership

You can soon legally remix music on Suno, but you'll have to pay up. — WMG is dropping its Suno lawsuit and will instead opt them in through licensing deals. (Picture: Adobe)

Capping off a flurry of deals lately, one of the largest music publishers in the world is turning to cooperation instead of litigation.

The deal with Suno will allow «new fan experiences» for artists who have «opted in» and will see Suno making a lot of changes to receive licensing for the music.

Starting in 2026 with a new model, free users won’t be able to download their music from the site, and paid users can increase their downloads for more payment.

— AI becomes pro-artist when it adheres to our principles: committing to licensed models, reflecting the value of music on and off platform, and providing artists and songwriters with an opt-in for the use of their name, image, likeness, voice and compositions in new AI songs, said Robert Kyncl, CEO of WMG.

Read more: WMG’s press release, Suno’s community comment, writeups by The Verge and Music Business Worldwide.

Nvidia responds to report that Meta might use Google’s TPU chips

A deal between Meta and Google might see custom TPU chips installed on Meta's data centers, as the industry looks for Nvidia alternatives. — Talks between Meta and Google on custom chips has Nvidia slightly worried, but not much. (Picture: generated)

News on the talks was posted by The Information on tuesday, and caused Nvidia to drop 3% and Google to tease a $4 billion valuation in the markets.

Under the deal being discussed, Meta would start renting compute on Google’s Tensor Processing Units as early as next year, Reuters reports.

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