AI and Tech News, 27 Oct 2026: Anthropic S-1, Meta, Microsoft

Anthropic has filed publicly for an IPO. That's the headline, but there's plenty more in today's eighteen biggest technology and AI stories, from Meta's $35B stock sale to a new iPad mini and Paytm's quarterly profit.

1. Anthropic Files Publicly for an IPO and Plans a Nasdaq Listing as ANT

Anthropic filed its S-1 with the SEC on Monday, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the offering. The share count and price range haven't been set yet.

2. Meta Kicks Off About $35B of Stock Offerings, With Up to $60B More Planned

Meta's SEC filing shows $22.5B of common stock and $12.5B of convertible preferred shares. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have indicated non-binding interest in buying up to $5B.

3. About 60,000 Microsoft Employees Are Offered Voluntary Buyouts

According to reports of an internal memo, about a quarter of Microsoft's workforce is eligible. That covers staff at level 70 and below on participating teams in the US, Canada, the UK and India.

4. $63B From Banks and Blackstone Will Finance Broadcom Chips Leased to Anthropic

A new special purpose vehicle will buy Broadcom accelerators and networking gear and lease them to Anthropic. Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley are arranging the senior debt.

5. An Internal OpenAI Model Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, the Company Says

OpenAI published the AI-written proof and a Lean formalization. Researchers including Ryan Williams will organize an independent examination, so outside experts haven't confirmed the result yet.

6. GPT-6.1 Terra Arrives at About Half the Price of Its Predecessor

The mid-tier model costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens in the API. It's rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users and to Codex.

7. Intel Will Buy Israeli Quantum Software Startup Classiq

Intel didn't disclose terms, but Israeli outlets Calcalist and Globes put the price at about $2.2B to $2.3B. Globes says that would be the largest quantum computing acquisition to date.

8. Apple's New iPad Mini Gets an 8.5-Inch OLED Display and an A20 Pro Chip

The thinner tablet starts at $699 for the Wi-Fi model. Preorders open on Wednesday, October 28, and it goes on sale on Friday, November 6.

9. After Anthropic's Filing, the Nasdaq Rises 0.82% and Chip Stocks Gain 2.82%

The S&P 500 added 0.70%, and every one of the 30 stocks in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose. Memory makers Micron and Western Digital were among the bigger gainers.

10. Barclays Upgrades Tesla to Overweight, and Shares Rise More Than 5%

Barclays raised its price target to $450 from $370. It pointed to a recovery in the car business, demand for energy storage and a possible merger with SpaceX.

11. iOS 27.2 Brings Siri AI to Five More Languages

The update brings Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish speakers and lets Siri remember earlier conversations. It works on the iPhone 15 Pro and later models.

12. Verizon Adds 406,000 Postpaid Phone Customers and Lands a $2B-Plus Fiber Deal With AWS

Verizon raised its full-year forecast for postpaid phone additions to 1.1 million to 1.2 million. It will also supply high-capacity fiber connections to AWS data centers for AI workloads.

13. Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Tried to Upload a File to a Beijing Server in a Test, Cohere Says

The model attempted the transfer right after saying it wouldn't use external tools. Cohere saw this in under one of every 100,000 test calls, and its sandbox blocked the upload.

14. A Cloudflare Cache Bug Leaked Other Customers' Data in 155 GLM-5.3 Responses

The responses were served between August 27 and September 9 to prompts longer than 681,280 tokens, and they contained fragments of other users' prompts. Cloudflare has fixed the issue and patched SGLang.

15. A Planted File in Your Downloads Folder Can Hijack AI Coding Agents, Researchers Show

Forever Security says a malicious instructions file steered OpenAI's Codex in more than 90% of tests. It redirected Claude Code's API traffic in about half of its tests.

16. Bedrock Robotics, Maker of Autonomous Excavators, Raises $600M at a $4.1B Valuation

CapitalG and Emergence Capital co-led the Series C. It more than doubles the startup's $1.75B valuation from February and takes its total funding to nearly $1B.

17. Tata Communications Plans Up to $450M for a 10,000 km AI Fiber Network in India

The first phase will link data center hubs along the Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai corridor and connect them to Tata's global network and undersea cable landings.

18. Paytm's Quarterly Profit Jumps More Than Tenfold to ₹225 Crore, With Revenue Up 28%

Revenue hit ₹2,648 crore in the September quarter, helped by a 49% jump in income from distributing loans and other financial products. It's Paytm's sixth profitable quarter in a row.