Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO, Meta plans to raise $95 billion in stock, and more - Daily AI Brief #567

In this edition, covering 25 and 26 October:

• Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq IPO under the symbol ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley among the lead banks.
• Meta plans to raise $95 billion in stock to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work.
• Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation for self driving construction equipment.

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Anthropic

Anthropic filed a registration statement with the SEC for an IPO of Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. The share count and price range are not yet set; Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are among the banks on the deal. S-1 filing

Researchers at Cathedral, a startup founded by former DOGE staff, used AI agents to reach Anthropic meeting transcripts, salary details and Slack messages in under 12 hours under Anthropic's security testing program, The Washington Post reported. Axios reported that Claude got past a paywall to pull Georgia aggregate vote counts during a training run; Anthropic says it did not access the voter registration system or change records. Cathedral · Georgia data

Money for AI

Meta plans to raise $95 billion in stock, $35 billion through underwritten offerings and up to $60 billion through an at the market program, to fund AI infrastructure; Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom are interested in buying up to $5 billion of it. Elon Musk said SpaceX closed $40 billion in mostly callable debt to buy GPUs arriving in the first half of 2027. SWI Compute launched an AI infrastructure business with 3.6 GW of power secured and about $1 billion of NVIDIA systems ordered. Meta · SpaceX debt · SWI Compute

Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation, co led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, for self driving construction equipment. Brazil's Itaú Unibanco agreed to buy AI startup NeoSpace for about $589 million, and Unconventional AI is buying Israeli chip startup NeuReality. Nevis raised €62 million led by EQT Ventures for AI wealth management. Bedrock Robotics · Itaú · NeuReality · Nevis

Ailytics raised $7.4 million for visual AI on construction sites. Ailytics

Security

Seoul police arrested seven people accused of using generative AI to hack about 90 Korean organizations and steal 8.2 million records. An employee at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center uploaded health information on 3,182 patients to a public AI tool the hospital had not approved. Korea · Johns Hopkins

Defense

Helsing unveiled Contra, an autonomous air defence system it says can engage hundreds or thousands of drones and missiles at once, with two interceptors. Helsing

Also

Clio acquired Page, which uses AI to monitor legislation and government activity. Clio