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Iran Says "Very Good Discussions" Held With Mecca Pact Countries

26 October 2026 at 20:07
Iran's security chief said Monday he held "very good discussions" with the three member countries of the Mecca defence pact, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, after their first meeting in capital Tehran.

Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei said the discussions in the capital Tehran were "very good".

Microsoft Offers Exit Packages To 60,000 Staff As Company Pours Money Into AI

26 October 2026 at 16:53
Staff on select teams in the United States, Canada, India and Britain at vice president level and below will be eligible, a Microsoft spokesperson said, while some groups of employees, including some working on data centres, sales and marketing, are excluded.

Microsoft had 223,000 employees globally at the end of June, down from 228,000 at the end of 2025.

In Anthropic's Historic IPO Filing, A Mention Of AI's "Existential Risks"

26 October 2026 at 15:09
The company behind Claude expects to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT, a filing Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed. Anthropic filed confidentially in June for a listing.

Anthropic had an $80.7 billion net loss on revenue of $16.3 billion in the first six months of 2026.

Anthropic Unveils Blockbuster IPO Plan As First-Half Losses Hit $80 Billion

26 October 2026 at 14:02
Anthropic was co-founded in January 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and several former OpenAI employees. They left the Sam Altman-led organisation because of fundamental differences in vision over how AI safety should be scaled.

The listing will be watched closely, as it is likely to show how Wall Street values leading AI companies.
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