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TREE NEWS update: Anthropic plans to sell shares to UK retail investors through investment platform RetailBook in its IPO, using the UK’s Public Offer Platform mechanism, which lets it avoid producing a UK prospectus. RetailBook, a licensed POP operator, will coordinate the offering and other platforms can submit orders to it. The company filed for its IPO on Monday and plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The plans are not final and may still change.

TREE NEWS reports: Professional analysts went along with their AI agent’s hidden opinion 86% of the time, and few credited the AI for the influence. The research indicates AI systems can quietly sway expert judgment without users recognizing the source of the shift. The findings raise questions about transparency and oversight as AI agents are increasingly embedded in professional decision-making.

TREE NEWS update: Google released its frontier AI model Gemini 4 Carbon, the company said. The announcement names the model as a frontier-tier release but gives no further details on capabilities, availability or pricing. Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s latest addition to its Gemini model line.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic is working to sell its shares to UK retail investors through investment platform RetailBook, people familiar with the matter said. The move would give individual British investors exposure to the AI company’s equity via a retail-focused platform. No pricing, share count or fundraising figure was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic said Claude is now available to IDC customers as IDC Quanta. The offering makes Anthropic’s Claude model accessible to customers of the research and data firm IDC under the IDC Quanta name. No further terms, pricing or launch date were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Google and Xreal have released the Xreal Aura, a wired XR glasses product running on Android XR, Google said. The companies also launched Connected APPs Platforms aimed at developers. No pricing, availability date or further specifications were disclosed in the announcement.

TREE NEWS update: A heavily redesigned MacBook Pro featuring a touchscreen has been released in the UK. The launch marks the first MacBook Pro model to ship with a touch-enabled display. No pricing, specification or availability details beyond the UK release were given.

TREE NEWS update: Apple’s Touch MacBook event started with CEO John Ternus delivering remarks. The event is underway, with Ternus speaking at the opening. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: Google is using Oracle’s cloud platform as an additional channel to sell its Tensor Processing Units, stepping up competition with Nvidia in the AI chip market. Google began selling TPUs to external customers only in the second quarter of this year, despite starting in-house chip development in 2013. Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian worked at Oracle for more than 20 years before joining Google in 2018.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has added more than 60 legal-focused connectors to its Claude platform, the company said. The connectors link Claude to legal tools and data sources, expanding the assistant’s integrations for legal workflows. Anthropic did not disclose further details about the individual connectors.

TREE NEWS reports: PIMCO has reduced its positions in two of the largest AI-related debt deals by about 50%. The bond giant had invested in roughly $18 billion of Meta-related bonds in 2025 and $10 billion of Oracle-related transactions. The cuts were made while the bonds were trading at high prices, as AI debt financing has accumulated to about $500 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia released its Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe model on Hugging Face and ModelScope, making it available through both model hubs. The listing gives developers access to the speech-recognition model on the two platforms. No further details on licensing, pricing or performance were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: DiffuSpace released and open-sourced Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, a mixture-of-experts model with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion activated. The model outperforms Mercury 2.5 and same-size autoregressive Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on agentic coding and other key tasks, generating up to 5-10 times faster than the latter. Clover scales 5x over its predecessor with unchanged speed and stronger intelligence, indicating scale potential for the dLLM paradigm.

TREE NEWS reports: Federated Hermes chief investment officer Debbie Cunningham said borrowing by AI companies may actually create demand for U.S. Treasuries, as hyperscalers including Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta park unused cash in money market funds that invest in government debt. Cunningham, who oversees the firm’s $677 billion money market funds, said demand for Treasuries will hold even as more lenders target AI companies, since fund mandates and collateral rules require investors to hold U.S. government bonds.

TREE NEWS update: Tianfu Communication said its co-packaged optics (CPO) supporting products have entered volume delivery with clear customer demand, and it expects CPO products to gradually ramp from 2027 and become a new growth driver. NPO supporting products remain in R&D, customer sampling and validation, progressing in line with company expectations, with mass production also possible in 2027 if validation and customer adoption go smoothly.

TREE NEWS update: House Oversight Chair James Comer is scrutinizing Delaware’s proposed “AIC” corporate structure, warning it could shield AI firms from liability, and has asked the state’s governor for documents by November 9. The probe targets a plan that would allow companies to be run by artificial intelligence. Comer’s request sets a document deadline for the governor’s office.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing added six generative AI services to its regulatory filing list as of October 28, 2026, bringing the city’s total to 325 registered services. The registrations fall under China’s Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services. The update was published by the Cyberspace Administration of Beijing.

TREE NEWS reports: Cybersecurity incidents are mounting in what is being called ‘Black October,’ with new AI-powered attacks and vulnerabilities reported daily. The wave of threats highlights the growing risks to ordinary internet users, who are advised to take basic protective measures online. No specific incidents, companies or figures were provided in the available material.

TREE NEWS update: Tianfu Communication said the tight supply of core materials has eased noticeably in the third quarter compared with earlier. The company is deepening cooperation with key suppliers while advancing supply-chain diversification to strengthen its ability to secure critical materials. It said arrivals of core materials are generally smooth and can support current production and delivery needs.

TREE NEWS update: Stablecoin infrastructure company Eco has released the Sauce developer kit, which lets developers write transaction conditions in TypeScript so that any transaction failing those conditions never executes. The toolkit is designed to keep AI agents’ transactions within operator-set limits.