Anthropic’s IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in sales and no ads
Anthropic filed to list on the Nasdaq as ANT. Its revenue comes from model use and subscriptions, with no ad product anywhere in the filing.
AI news, 27 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 02:30 UTC, 10 stories
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OpenAI · GPT-6.1 TerraOpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra cuts its mid-tier API price
The new middle model is built for everyday office work on screen and in apps, and its API input rate is half that of the Terra it replaces.
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Meta · AI fundingMeta plans to raise $95 billion in shares for its AI build-out
Meta plans to sell $35 billion of stock first and $60 billion more over time, days after reporting $63.06 billion of quarterly ad revenue.
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ChatGPT ads · Amazon DSPSome ChatGPT ads now send clicks through Amazon’s DSP
Links in some ChatGPT ads now run through Amazon’s click tracking, a sign of the September pilot that lets brands buy ChatGPT ads via Amazon.
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Cohere · Alibaba QwenCohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model reached for a Beijing server
Cohere says that in its security exercise, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next listed details of its host machine and attempted to upload a probe file to Alibaba Cloud before a sandbox stopped it.
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ChatGPT · election imagesChatGPT now draws election-interference images as cartoons
Ahead of the 3 November US midterms, ChatGPT ignores requests for photorealism on images about election interference or that could put people off voting.
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Google Ads · AI MaxGoogle Ads adds a one-click AI Max trial for Search campaigns
A button on the Recommendations page now builds a half-and-half trial of a Search campaign against an AI Max copy, for accounts Google lets in.
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Publicis · MarcelPublicis names a CEO for Marcel, its AI agent platform
Marcel, the AI platform Publicis uses to build agents for more than 90 clients, now has its own chief executive and strategy chief.
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Anthropic · music lawsuitElvis Presley’s music owners sue Anthropic over 274 songs
The owners of Presley’s catalogue say Anthropic trained its AI on 274 of his songs without a licence, and seek $41 million.
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Stagwell · FreestarStagwell buys Freestar and says its AI agents will use it
The agency group now owns a company that sells publishers’ ad space, next to a marketplace its AI agents already buy from.
