OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO
OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO

OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $ 1.4 trillion. Reuters reported the plan on Monday, citi…

Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year
Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year

Elon Musk’s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own share plan. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in…

Nscale reportedly faces investor pushback on its $30B IPO valuation
Nscale reportedly faces investor pushback on its $30B IPO valuation

Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. A valuation of $16bn to $19bn would be more likely to attract buyers, a group …

Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units

Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares rose as much as 11% in Stoc…

TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027
TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027

TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar terms, according to T…

Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons
Berkshire Hathaway puts another $330m into Bending Spoons

Berkshire Hathaway is buying 10 million new Bending Spoons shares at $33 each. The Milan-based company announced the deal on 14 October. The $330m private placement adds to the $600m Berkshire invested at Bending Spoons’ Nasdaq listing in July. The two…

Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk

“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI pro…

Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn
Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn

Anthropic’s planned stock market debut is “an unprecedented test of investor gullibility,” independent research firm New Constructs said in a report titled “Anthropic Is The Most Ridiculous IPO of 2026.” The firm puts the AI company’s equity at as litt…

Rakuten raises record ¥400B from bond sale driven by retail investors
Rakuten raises record ¥400B from bond sale driven by retail investors

Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about ¥3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025’s rec…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers

Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. “A lot of investors have no clue what…