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Anthropic files S-1 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with a valuation of up to $2 trillion

Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT with a valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion; if completed, it would surpass SpaceX to become the largest IPO in history. The prospectus shows revenue of $16.286 billion in the first half of 2026, up nearly 13-fold year on year, with about 80% of revenue coming from enterprise APIs and nearly 12,000 customers each spending more than $100,000 annually. The company has signed long-term compute contracts worth more than $650 billion, about 80% of which are non-cancelable; Q3 revenue was about $16.9 billion, and the quarter-on-quarter growth rate fell from 144% to about 47%, with some investors discussing cutting the valuation to about $1.5 trillion.

Code testing startup Blacksmith raises $66 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation

Continuous integration cloud service provider Blacksmith has raised a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator and GV, at a company valuation of $1 billion, bringing total funding to $125 million. The company offers CI cloud services on its own servers; more than 10,000 enterprises currently use it, and weekly code checks have grown from about 5 million in early 2026 to about 90 million, while annual recurring revenue grew 17-fold over the same period. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said AI coding tools have made writing code easy and the bottleneck has shifted to code verification; this round's funds will mainly be used to buy servers to expand the global CI cloud and to grow the team from about 40 people to 75 by the end of the year.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Tops Code Arena WebDev Open-Source Leaderboard

Arena announced that DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (Max) surpassed open-source models such as Kimi K3 (Max) with a score of 1670, becoming the highest-ranked open-source model on the Code Arena: WebDev leaderboard, and also surpassed closed-source models such as Claude Opus 5 and Grok 4.7, trailing GPT-6 Sol by only 12 points. The model was launched on October 17, priced at 2 yuan per million tokens for input (cache miss) and 8 yuan for output during peak hours, and 1 yuan for input and 4 yuan for output during idle hours, with a comprehensive cost of about 1/10 that of Kimi K3. Zhidongxi used it to create two cases, an ancient Kaifeng 3D scene and a web-based racing game, both completed in a single attempt, at a total cost of about 6 yuan.

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AIUC Completes $40 Million Series A, Launches AIUC-1 Agent Safety Standard and Insurance Program

AIUC announced the completion of a $40 million Series A funding round, led by Ribbit Capital and First Harmonic, with customers including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs. Its AIUC-1 standard covers agent safety, security, and reliability, requiring thousands of simulated tests each quarter for jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks, with a certification period of about 3 to 10 weeks. ElevenLabs has purchased the first AI agent insurance policy, underwritten with participation from Lloyd's of London, and AIUC's evaluation results are used directly for pricing.