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TREE NEWS update: Anthropic disclosed in a newly released S-1 filing that it is preparing for a large-scale IPO, with rapid revenue growth offset by a long list of risks including a narrow customer base and uncertainty over needed compute supply. The company signaled it could spend up to $750 billion in the coming years to secure more computing power, including deals still under negotiation.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic plans to spend more than $600 billion on compute and could spend as much as $750 billion securing computing capacity, the company said. The AI developer reported $16.3 billion in first-half revenue against roughly $9 billion of compute spending, and recorded an $80.7 billion loss on financial matters. The figures put the scale of its infrastructure commitments far above its current revenue base.

TREE NEWS update: Google said Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are now available on Google Antigravity. The two Anthropic models join the platform as part of the listed model lineup. No further details on availability, pricing or rollout were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Amazon Web Services is expected to receive $5 billion worth of Nvidia GB300 racks, Business Insider reported. The GB300 is Nvidia’s latest-generation rack-scale AI system. The expected deployment would represent a significant capital commitment by AWS to Nvidia’s newest AI hardware.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, the company announced. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Orchestra Bio’s business focus and the size of the transaction were not specified in the available material. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest move to expand through M&A.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed internally consolidating leading AI laboratories into a single organization to centrally manage frontier-model risks. The proposal faces steep obstacles, as both OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing IPOs and rising commercialization priorities make deep cross-competitor coordination difficult to achieve.

TREE NEWS update: HSBC Holdings CEO Georges Elhedery said AI is a key enabler for reshaping the bank, but cautioned investors to be selective rather than make all-in bets on the underlying infrastructure. In remarks reported by CNBC, he stressed the need to assess the quality of tenant agreements and contract pricing, noting that not all data center projects have sufficiently strong contracts and some may prove more challenging.

TREE NEWS update: French AI company Mistral released the Voxtral 3 family of speech models, including the Voxtral Small Transcribe 3, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3, Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 transcription models and the Voxtral Speech 3 text-to-speech model, along with a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit that supports speaker diarization, voice cloning, function calling and SIP telephony. The transcription models support more than 50 languages, with API pricing from $0.0035 to $0.008 per minute and text-to-speech at $13 per million characters.

TREE NEWS update: Mastercard has opened early access to its machine-to-machine payment system Agent Pay for Machines, giving developers initial buyer and seller APIs, a developer toolkit and a sandbox environment while the product remains in pilot and not yet commercially available. Mastercard previously completed end-to-end pilots with Cloudflare, Ant International, BVNK, AIsa, Base and Coinbase, including a demo at Cloudflare Connect in which an AI agent paid a service provider via Coinbase’s x402 protocol with Base as the on-chain settlement network. The system, first announced in June, supports card, bank account and stablecoin payments.

TREE NEWS update: Google released new Gemini tools aimed at small business owners, the company said. The launch extends Google’s Gemini AI offerings to a small-business audience. The announcement did not disclose pricing or a release date.

TREE NEWS update: France’s Mistral released Voxtral 3, a model that handles both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, the company announced. The release covers transcription and voice synthesis in a single model. Mistral did not disclose pricing, availability details or benchmark figures in the announcement.

TREE NEWS update: AMD and Intel have agreed to make oneDNN the default open-source library for x86 acceleration in PyTorch. AMD has also joined the UXL Foundation as a steering member to advance the oneDNN PyTorch work. The collaboration aims to simplify AI development on x86 CPUs.

TREE NEWS update: Mastercard has opened early access to AI agent payments and demonstrated the capability live at Cloudflare Connect. In the demo, an AI agent ran a sample ad campaign across nine payments to two merchants on a single approved budget. The move shows Mastercard testing agent-initiated transactions within its payments network.

TREE NEWS update: Mastercard has opened early access to its Agent Pay for Machines product, following pilot programs with Coinbase, Base, Cloudflare and other partners. The service is designed to let AI agents carry out payments on behalf of users. The early-access launch follows the completion of those partner pilots.

TREE NEWS update: A federal judge in Mississippi on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a civil rights group’s lawsuit accusing Elon Musk’s xAI of violating environmental laws to power its AI data center. District Judge Debra Brown said the EPA may intervene in the case but cannot unilaterally terminate it under the Clean Air Act once it joins.

TREE NEWS update: US Director of National Intelligence and AI affairs chief Jay Clayton said the artificial intelligence working group’s recommendations on responsible AI development will be published “very soon.” Asked in an interview when the proposals would be issued, Clayton said they would be released gradually but declined to commit to a specific date.

TREE NEWS update: Dema Technology and Ant Group’s embodied-intelligence unit Ant Lingbo have entered a deep strategic partnership to industrialize physical AI, the companies said. The pair will combine Lingbo’s embodied-model technology base with Dema’s logistics engineering capabilities to carry out industrial validation and deployment of embodied-intelligence technology under real warehouse operating conditions.

TREE NEWS update: US Director of National Intelligence and AI affairs chief Jay Clayton said recommendations from the AI working group on responsible AI development will be released “soon.” Asked on CNBC when the recommendations would be proposed, Clayton said they would be rolled out gradually but declined to commit to a specific date.

TREE NEWS reports: Scotiabank estimates that at a $1.5 trillion valuation, Anthropic’s equity would be worth about $16 per share to Alphabet, roughly 5% of its stock value, and about $27 per share to Amazon, nearly 10% of its stock value. The bank said an Anthropic IPO would convert one of the largest private AI holdings on both companies’ balance sheets into a publicly priced asset, with Amazon benefiting more from the stake. It also flagged Anthropic’s growing importance as a Google Cloud and AWS customer.

TREE NEWS reports: ARK Invest’s updated open-source valuation model puts Tesla at about $4,400 per share by 2031, implying a roughly $17.5 trillion market capitalization under its base case. Monte Carlo simulations across 32 variables produce a bear case near $3,300 and a bull case near $5,000, with annualized gains of 53% and 66%, respectively. ARK expects Robotaxi to generate about 80% of enterprise value by 2031, while cumulative Optimus sales reach about 1 million units.