Golden Era Super Intelligence

Dead startups are selling their Slack histories and code to AI labs: 47% of SimpleClosure's shutdown deals now include code or data. Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' enterprise data, and a Nov 6 hearing waits on employee protections.

Anthropic says Claude made about 35,000 antibody designs in a month for a food allergy drug with Divergence Labs. Of 91 tested, 20 showed activity and 3 removed more IgE than Xolair in one assay. Not tested in humans.

On the desk this morning: Anthropic's S-1 puts knowledge work at $40T a year. A wage estimate, not a forecast. The founders keep 50.1% of the votes through Founder LLC. Tencent open-sources the 8B world model Hy-Nomas, with its own benchmarks. On the desk every morning.

SK Hynix posted record Q3 operating profit of 83.3 trillion won, an 80% margin on memory chips, and targets about 100 trillion won in shareholder returns. Net profit still fell 57.7% from the prior quarter, unexplained.

Tencent has open-sourced Hy-Nomas, an 8B interactive video world model under Apache-2.0 that runs on one RTX 4090. In Tencent's own tests it beat LingBot-World v2 on prompt following but trailed Google's Genie 3 on spatial memory.

Amazon is winding down its Nova Premier, Omni, Reel and Canvas models and moving resources to a new Frontier Model Research team, Business Insider reports. Nova 2 Sonic, Nova 2 Lite, Forge and Act stay.

Unconfirmed: Hock Tan sweetened the terms to keep banks in Anthropic's $63 billion chip financing, with higher rates and firmer loss guarantees, the WSJ reports. Broadcom and the banks have not commented.

Apple is adding a beta AI assistant to Keynote, Pages and Numbers, built on Apple and OpenAI models, and MCP support so outside agents can read and edit the files. Due "this November", with no exact date or model list.

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, a quarter of its staff, while forecasting $175 billion in 2026 capex, per Reuters. Staff decide in early December and leave December 31.

48% of Anthropic's first-half revenue came through Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud accounts, up from 11% in 2023, per Bloomberg. Its S-1 calls the three investors, customers, distribution partners and competitors at once.

On the desk this morning: Nvidia puts $3B into Meta's stock sale. No schedule, no benchmark. Two of ETH's authors will help lead an open check of OpenAI's claimed refutation. Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 staff, a quarter of the company. On the desk every morning.

Blackstone and three big banks are lining up $63 billion for Broadcom chips that Anthropic will lease, not buy. A new SPV buys the hardware, Broadcom backs its value, and deliveries start in 2027, per Kirkland & Ellis.

OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Terra to its API today as gpt-6.1-terra, for visual reasoning, precise computer use and natural writing. It lands next to GPT-6 Astra (September 3) and GPT-6.1 Sol (September 29) in an increasingly crowded lineup.

SpaceX locked in a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo for Nvidia GPUs, disclosed in a filing Monday and due to close before the end of 2026, Bloomberg reports. Musk had described it as closed, callable debt. The two accounts do not match.

Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing as ANT: $16.3 billion revenue and an $80.7 billion loss in the first half of 2026. A single Class F share held by the seven co-founders carries 50.1% of the vote. The price range is still blank.

Meta is going to the stock market for up to $95 billion to fund its AI buildout, its first new stock since 2013, per Semafor, Bloomberg and the FT. About $60 billion comes as nonvoting shares created last week, and the chipmakers it buys from are investing.

Toyota is putting $6.4 billion a year into humanoid robots and factory automation, with 400,000 robots planned, per the Financial Times. Goldman Sachs analysts see it taking 3 to 8 percent of the humanoid market by 2035. The first robots stay inside Toyota's own plants.

On the desk this morning: SpaceX says it closed $40B of GPU debt. No lenders or rates disclosed. Nvidia floats about $2,000 per GPU a year for agent software, products unnamed. Microsoft's Decision-1 scores answers instead of writing them. Hosted only. On the desk every morning.

Jane Street runs a Texas data center with more than 4,000 Nvidia GPUs, XTX Markets is building a $1.1 billion site in Kajaani, Finland, and Hudson River Trading computes inside a former mine in Norway, per Bloomberg. Bloomberg calls it a big and potentially risky bet.

A 10-year-old CNN named the right skin-cancer diagnosis in 62% of 200 biopsy-proven lesions, against 42% for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, in a test by a Guy's Hospital dermatologist. At its preset threshold the CNN also sent home 18 of 30 melanomas.

A forecast, not a fact: Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark wrote in Import AI that full recursive self-improvement is now more likely possible in 2027, a year earlier than he thought. He has also said the chance Anthropic does it next year is close to zero.

Elvis Presley's rights holders sued Anthropic on Friday, saying Claude was trained on 274 Presley songs without a license. They seek the statutory maximum of $150,000 per song, about $41 million. Anthropic has not publicly responded, per NME.

Alphabet and Microsoft report Wednesday, the same day as the Fed meeting, after the Nasdaq's worst day since June. Meta fell nearly 7% on Thursday after raising 2026 capex to as much as $145 billion while profit missed.

Nvidia open-sourced Flora, a data engine that labels robot video, and puts its cost at 72 cents per hour of footage, about 125 times cheaper than GPT-6 Astra. Those costs are projections from an assumed $10 per GPU hour, not production bills.

Fool's Gold, settled this week: GOLD: OpenCode's Dax Raad said AI safeguards slowed its attack response. TechCrunch confirmed. FOOL'S GOLD: an X account said a graph proved AI is hitting white-collar jobs. Karpathy said it measured how digital a job is. Score: 13 gold, 2 fool's gold, 38 open.