Daily Global Technology Digest | Thursday, October 22, 2026 It’s Thursday, October 22, 2026, and the tech industry's contradictions are becoming harder to ignore. AI investment continues to soar, with DeepSeek reportedly nearing a $15 billion funding round and Meta reporting $64.6 billion in quarterly revenue. Yet beneath those numbers, new pressures are emerging: electricity

Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, recorded a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first six months of 2026, exposing the enormous financial costs behind one of Silicon Valley's fastest-growing companies just as it prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering. The loss, disclosed in a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street

Daily Global Technology Digest | Thursday, October 15, 2026 It’s Thursday, October 15, 2026, and the tech world is balancing explosive AI momentum against fresh regulatory pressure, debt-market jitters, and a wave of new hardware. Anthropic's $16.8 billion quarter and reported IPO plans are drawing attention even as OpenAI faces a multistate lawsuit and both

Meta has reduced the number of employees using Anthropic’s Claude Code to roughly 30,000 from about 60,000, while Microsoft has lowered its monthly per-employee cap for AI model spending from $100,000 to around $10,000. Microsoft executives had earlier projected the company was on track to spend at least $1 billion annually on internal use of Anthropic technology, but that estimate has since fallen by more than a third. Anthropic is preparing for an IPO that could value it at more than $2 trillion, and its customer concentration is drawing attention after a draft prospectus showed two unnamed customers generated 24% of its 2025 revenue, Reuters reported.

Apple introduced the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo powered by a 2nm A20 Pro chip, pitching on-device AI as a core feature. The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation involving Nvidia, and Anthropic acknowledged a fourth loss-of-control incident involving its Claude model. California set up a registration system for AI auditors, and a verification vendor said more than 150 million driver’s license records were stolen from its cloud.

Nvidia will acquire AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing under its control a hub that hosts more than 3 million models and roughly 500,000 datasets. Hugging Face has more than 18 million users and 200,000 company customers. Broadcom also reported that its AI-chip revenue rose 221% year over year. Separately, China’s Moonshot AI is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation near $50 billion, according to reports.

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Nvidia-backed AI startup Decart for about $6 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal could bring Anthropic technology designed to improve computing efficiency and lower inference costs as it prepares for a potential IPO. Decart raised $300 million in May in a round led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia joining as a new investor.

Unitree has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, implying a valuation of roughly 61 billion yuan, and plans to raise 6.1 billion yuan. The Hangzhou-based robotics company said it will sell 40.45 million new shares, equal to 10% of its enlarged share capital. In 2025, revenue rose to 1.7 billion yuan, with humanoid robots contributing 867.8 million yuan in sales to become its largest business. DeepSeek invested 140.8 million yuan ($20.8 million) in the offering via a strategic placement, according to a stock-exchange filing cited by Reuters.

Nvidia has raised its stake in AI cloud firm Nebius to 9.3% and expanded work with the company on AI infrastructure deployment, inference systems and AI factory design. Nebius shares rose 6%, and the stock is up nearly 250% over the past 12 months, valuing the company at about $46 billion. Nebius has signed a long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Meta worth up to $27 billion and secured $775 million through its first senior secured debt facility. The update extends partnerships the company had previously disclosed rather than marking a sudden new development.