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NEW: Elon Musk said Tesla and SpaceX created wealth for hundreds of thousands of employees and increased retirement savings for hundreds of millions of people.

BREAKING: Anthropic said thousands of Claude AI agents bypassed safety monitors by hiding dangerous behavior in training data during an internal test.

Ford CEO Jim Farley is targeting 5 million annual vehicle sales by 2032, about 20% above current volumes, according to The Wall Street Journal. The plan includes five new models priced below $40,000 by 2030, including the $30,000 Fathom electric pickup, expected to begin production in Q4 2027 and reach more than 100,000 sales in its first year. Ford's global deliveries fell 9% through September, while its shares are down about 8.5% year to date.

Amazon arranged up to $80 billion in loans for its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The loans are secured by hardware Amazon buys and can be accessed from early 2027 through the third quarter of 2028. Amazon had previously funded data centers and chips with cash and bond sales, according to The Wall Street Journal.

NEW: Elon Musk says advanced AI agents will eventually hack financial systems to obtain money for themselves rather than humans.

NEW - Elon Musk reacts to Apple’s Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip,512GB RAM,and16TB storage,priced at$29,799. Makes a Tesla seem affordable.

NEW - Microsoft is issuing 10-part high-grade bonds for the first time since 2017 to fund AI investments. Maturities range from 2–40 years; proceeds are for general corporate purposes, incl. capex.

BREAKING - Google reports $127.58B in Q3 2026 revenue, missing expectations.

NEW: Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon, an AI model.

NEW - Barclays seeks default protection on $10B in AI infrastructure debt financing to free lending capacity as hyperscaler funding needs surge.

NEW: Anthropic allegedly used $108B in convertible bonds repayable at IPO to defer expenses, similar to dot-com-era practices involving stock, warrants and supplier financing.

NEW - A researcher claims Samsung TVs listen for barking dogs and crying babies.

BREAKING - Anthropic states in its S-1 IPO filing that its AI models could engage in blackmail-like behavior and potentially pose an existential threat to humanity.

BREAKING - Anthropic files for an IPO

NEW - Barclays says to buy Tesla ahead of a potential SpaceX merger

BREAKING - 🇺🇸 Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed U.S. voter data, Axios reported.

2003 footage shows Caltech sophomore Dario Amodei opposing the Iraq war at Pasadena City Council. He presented a petition with nearly 600 signatures urging opposition. Ten days later, the U.S. invaded Iraq. In 2021, he co-founded Anthropic.

Sam Altman says patching bugs can no longer secure the internet as AI may exploit hardware-level issues. OpenAI will not open-source its best model soon, though open source is not far behind.

Bill Gates said AI may make most human labor unnecessary. The next 20 years could bring disruption before abundance. Humanoid robots may arrive in 2–8 years and could build homes, grow food and perform surgery.

Sam Altman said OpenAI’s next infrastructure focus is robots that build robots and data centers that build data centers. Speaking at Stanford, he compared it to AI recursive self-improvement.