The Claude developer applied on 26 October 2026 to list on Nasdaq as ANT. Revenue for the six months to 30 June was 14 times the year before, and almost 90 per cent of the $80.7bn net loss is a non-cash charge for the rising value of its own convertible notes.
China's securities regulator cleared Citigroup Global Markets Holdings to establish a wholly owned brokerage in Shanghai, ending an application that had been pending since December 2021 and returning Citi to onshore securities six years after it left its Orient Citigroup joint venture.
SpaceX's results for the quarter to 30 September 2026, filed with the SEC on 20 October, show the renamed Super Intelligence segment overtaking Starlink on revenue while absorbing $16.4 billion of capital spending in three months.
Reuters reported on 18 October 2026 that Microsoft has terminated its agreement at Nscale's data centre in Loughton, Essex, where the grid connection has slipped to the 2030s. Nscale says it still intends to build and is looking for alternative power.
TSMC published its third-quarter results on 15 October 2026: revenue of $46.72 billion above its own guidance, a sixth consecutive record profit, and a gross margin of 66.4 per cent that the chief financial officer tied to the early two-nanometre ramp.
The 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences went to two American economists whose models underpin how central banks time interest rate and spending decisions. Woodford was due to set his students an exam that morning when Stockholm called at 4:30am.
Firmus cited market volatility and said it will raise privately instead, Reuters reported from Sydney on 9 October 2026. The company has two leased data centres in operation, about $30 billion of debt according to analysts working for its own lead managers, and a prospectus projecting $5 billion of annual earnings within five years.
Wolfspeed's Form 8-K of 7 October 2026 sets out a conditional 30-year, $1.5 billion senior secured loan from the US Department of War, delivered in four tranches and conditioned on the company raising at least $750 million itself and equitising most of its convertible notes. The Department of War would take warrants over 7.5 per cent of the equity, plus governance rights that survive until repayment.
AWS chief executive Matt Garman committed more than $1 billion over five years to US communities hosting Amazon data centres, said the company no longer uses nondisclosure agreements with the government agencies it works with, and pledged annual publication of energy and water figures. The fund averages about a tenth of one per cent of Amazon's planned capital spending for 2026 alone.
Software that plans, acts and completes work with supervision.
An AI agent is a system that uses a model to plan and execute multi-step tasks by calling tools, reading and writing data, and taking actions in software environments, typically with a human setting goals and reviewing outcomes.
