29 September 2026

Anthropic's IPO prospectus: $42 billion net loss in 2025 and a warning of "existential" AI risk

Anthropic devoted 80 of the 261 pages of its prospectus to risks and warns in it that advanced AI may pose "catastrophic or existential threats to humanity," Reuters reports. The document shows that the company's revenue grew twelvefold in 2025, to almost $4.6 billion, and its net loss was $42 billion. At the valuation above $2 trillion that investors are hoping for, it would be the largest stock market debut in history.

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PewDiePie unveils Ajax - an AI model that doesn't refuse to answer and runs on a home computer

YouTuber PewDiePie presented Ajax - an AI model that can run on a home computer and from which he removed the refusal mechanism. It is a fine-tuned version of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B. It powers Odysseus, the YouTuber's earlier project: an assistant running on the user's computer that handles email and calendar and browses the web. According to the author, OpenAI banned his account twice while he was working on the model, once for distillation, that is, training one model on another model's answers.

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Apple considered replacing 5,000 tech support staff with AI agents

Apple recently considered laying off about 5,000 tech support employees, whose duties would have been taken over by AI agents serving customers by phone and online, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The company has put those plans on hold indefinitely.

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OpenAI unveils dots at DevDay, agents that work around the clock on their own cloud computer

On September 29, at its DevDay conference in San Francisco, OpenAI presented more than 20 new features, including dots - ChatGPT agents built on GPT-6 Astra that have their own computer and browser in the cloud, connect to more than 4,000 apps and work for the user around the clock. Dots are rolling out first to Pro and Business Premium subscribers. The company also released GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that according to OpenAI nearly matches GPT-6 Astra in coding and computer use at one fifth of the price.

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