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Anthropic just filed to go public, and the price tag has a T in it. That's trillion, with a T. Google dropped a model called Hydrogen, chip forensics may have caught some Chinese models with Blackwell fingerprints, and there's an unverified rumor about Nvidia's CEO that we'll treat very carefully. Plus ChatGPT gets a wallet and Google wants your face. Grab a snack. Buckle up. It's a big one.

1. Anthropic Files for Its IPO (AlphaSignal)

2. Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen (TLDR AI)

3. Chinese Models Show Blackwell Fingerprints (TLDR AI)

4. Unverified: Report Says Nvidia CEO Resigned (Futuretools.io)

5. OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Wallet (Benzinga)

6. Google Joins the Race for Your Face (The Rundown AI)

Nvidia, the company whose chips power the whole AI boom, just lost its CEO. Jensen Huang is out, he never set up a succession plan, and earnings are due Tuesday. Oh, and Anthropic is heading toward a stock debut that could value it at up to 1.4 trillion dollars. Plus, DeepMind has a new tool for reading DNA. Five minutes, seven stories, zero chill. Buckle up. This is The Daily Prompt.

1. Huang Out, Kress Steps In at Nvidia (TechCrunch AI)

2. Board Reportedly Preparing to Remove Huang (The Rundown AI)

3. The Huang Scandal, Explained in a Timeline (TechCrunch AI)

4. Huang Agrees to Testify Before Congress (TechCrunch AI)

5. Anthropic Confirms November 19 IPO Date (The Verge)

6. Anthropic IPO Reportedly Oversubscribed (The Rundown AI)

7. DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 Reads DNA Better (TLDR AI)

An AI lab just told investors it might be about to start improving itself, and it put that in a securities filing. Not a blog post. A filing. It's also trying to raise somewhere around $58 to $64 billion. Today: Anthropic's IPO roadshow, OpenAI locking its models in a room with no internet, eight states suing over kids and ChatGPT, a data center backlash, an alleged chip-smuggling saga, and a revenue race. This is The Daily Prompt.

1. Anthropic Kicks Off Its IPO Roadshow (TLDR AI)

2. Anthropic Warns Self-Improving AI May Be Close (Import AI)

3. OpenAI Trains Frontier Models Offline Now (Import AI)

4. Eight States Sue OpenAI Over Kids' Safety (Import AI)

5. Data Center Backlash Hits the Midterms (Import AI)

6. Alleged $7.5B Chip Smuggling Network Reported (First for Money via Yahoo News)

7. OpenAI Revenue Tops $10B in a Quarter (TechCrunch AI)

Anthropic wants to go public at a valuation of $1.404 trillion. That's trillion, with a T, for a company reporting a nine-month net loss of $104 billion. It also dropped two new models, launched a meeting bot, and Nvidia's CEO is in the middle of a scandal that has the whole industry nervous. It's a lot. Grab a coffee, because this is The Daily Prompt, and we're doing all of it.

1. Anthropic Prices Its IPO Near $1.4 Trillion (TechCrunch AI)

2. Can Anthropic Grow Into Its Compute Bill? (TLDR AI)

3. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 Arrive (Anthropic News)

4. Jensen Huang Scandal: The Timeline (TechCrunch AI)

5. Why Huang's Troubles Rattle the AI Industry (Wired AI)

6. Claude Joins Your Meetings (TechCrunch AI)

Nvidia's CEO just admitted an affair, and the woman involved is believed to have worked for Chinese intelligence. Yes, really. Meanwhile, Anthropic wants to go public into a market that's having a rough month, OpenAI is raising money at a $1.25 trillion valuation, and an AI system may have proved a quantum computing conjecture that's been open since 2008. Plus, Anthropic is buying gas generators. Lots of them. It's The Daily Prompt, and the news cycle clearly doesn't believe in days off.

1. Nvidia CEO's Affair Becomes Security Issue (Ars Technica AI)

2. Anthropic's IPO Meets Data Center Backlash (CNBC)

3. OpenAI Reportedly Raises $11B at $1.25T (TechCrunch AI)

4. Anthropic Buys Record $3.4B Gas Generators (IJR)

5. AI Is Speeding Up AI Research (TLDR AI)

6. AI Proves Quantum Computing Conjecture (The Rundown AI)

OpenAI just built a hacking model. On purpose. It's called GPT-6 Cyber, it finds software vulnerabilities for a living, and you can't just download it. Also today: a report says Anthropic's AI is speeding up Anthropic's own research, business AI spending hit a wall right before an IPO, voters are furious about data centers, and data brokers want to buy your old Slack messages. Yes, really. Your old 'per my last email' could be worth real money. Let's go.

1. OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Cyber (AlphaSignal)

2. METR: Anthropic's AI Speedup Is Real (The Rundown AI)

3. Inkling 2 Small Arrives (TLDR AI)

4. AI Spending Stalls Before Anthropic IPO (TechCrunch AI)

5. Data Centers Become a Campaign Issue (The Joplin Globe)

6. OpenAI's CFO: Still Building Data Centers (CNBC)

7. AI Labs Want Your Work Files (Wired AI)

The stock market just had an AI-shaped bad day. The Dow dropped more than 1,100 points, AMD fell 15.9%, and voters, it turns out, have opinions about data centers. Meanwhile, Anthropic's filing shows commitments of nearly $900 billion, a number that needs its own zip code. We'll also visit a math project with 16 million lines of code, and a humanoid robot company that just went public. Stay with me.

1. AI Sell-Off Rattles Wall Street (41 NBC Macon)

2. Anthropic's Nearly $900 Billion Tab (Barchart)

3. Midterm Voters Turn on Data Centers (The Rundown AI)

4. The Data Center Clash Is Just Starting (TechCrunch AI)

5. Big Tech: Backlash Is Anti-Trump (Ars Technica AI)

6. AI Agents Formalize Stacks Project in Lean (TLDR AI)

7. First Pure Humanoid Robot Stock Debuts (TechCrunch AI)

Anthropic just showed its homework ahead of an IPO, and the numbers are unhinged. $17 billion in quarterly revenue. A $23.3 billion loss. And nearly nine hundred billion in commitments. Meanwhile, voters are punishing politicians over data centers, Google is allegedly threatening to unplug Search from schools, and MIT had an AI perform brain surgery on a smaller AI. Apple's opening Siri up, too. It's The Daily Prompt, and yes, there will be math. Mostly the scary kind.

1. Anthropic's S-1: Hypergrowth Meets Huge Losses (Futuretools.io)

2. Fal Doubles Valuation to $16B (TechCrunch AI)

3. Voters Turn on Data Centers (Wired AI)

4. Google Search for Schools Sparks Backlash (TechCrunch AI)

5. Apple Opens Siri AI to Any App (The Rundown AI)

6. FlashProve: Proving an AI Gave That Answer (TLDR AI)

7. GPT-6 Astra Patches a Model's Weights (AlphaSignal)

Anthropic just put in writing that it might be about to build AI that builds itself. Yes, in a filing. With lawyers. Meanwhile, its compute bill is eating more than half its revenue, OpenAI is cozying up to Abu Dhabi, and Hollywood just picked a side in the New York Times lawsuit. Plus, a browser gets sued, and Claude gets told which video games it's not allowed to copy. Grab a snack. Let's go.

1. Anthropic Warns It's Near Self-Building AI (TechCrunch AI)

2. Anthropic's Compute Bill Keeps Growing (TechCrunch AI)

3. GPT-6 Astra Rewrites Other Models (The Rundown AI)

4. OpenAI Joins Abu Dhabi's AI Government Push (The Rundown AI)

5. Hollywood Backs NYT Against OpenAI (Page Six)

6. NYT and Outlets Sue Brave Browser (TechCrunch AI)

7. Quick Hits: Lasers, Hydrogen, Game Limits (The Rundown AI)

Anthropic just opened its books, and the numbers look like a typo. Revenue went from $41 million in 2023 to $4.6 billion in 2025. Meanwhile, Big Tech is burning cash, OpenAI is shrinking its funding ask, and someone backdoored a coding extension for nearly twelve hours. Plus, a biology model that refuses fewer questions than its sibling. Don't worry, it's still refusing the bioweapon ones. This is The Daily Prompt. Buckle up, because the spreadsheets are doing cardio.

1. Anthropic's S-1 Reveals the Numbers (TLDR AI)

2. Anthropic's Amended Filing Adds Q3 (CNBC)

3. Cracks Emerge in the AI Spending Boom (TechCrunch AI)

4. OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind-6 Targets Biology (TLDR AI)

5. Anthropic's Cursor Extension Was Backdoored (Ars Technica AI)

6. OpenAI Lowers Its Funding Target (TechCrunch AI)