According to a report, Anthropic has begun preliminary work for a potential 2026 IPO. The AI company is simultaneously negotiating a colossal private funding round that could value it between $300 and $350 billion.
Thousands of companies are now offering Allstate’s new Scam Protection as an employee benefit. It promises to reimburse workers up to $50,000 a year for losses from online fraud, ransomware, and even stolen cryptocurrency.
In a historic shift, AWS and Google Cloud announced a joint solution to seamlessly connect their platforms. This collaboration, driven by customer demand for multicloud, is a direct challenge to Microsoft and a death knell for many middleware vendors.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the sharp decline in public stocks is a problem, arguing it concentrates wealth with VCs instead of everyday investors. His solution? A push to “make IPOs great again” by easing regulations.
A significant global outage has hit OpenAI’s ChatGPT, causing the service to go down and user conversations to go missing. The company’s status page shows it identified the issue on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, and is working on a mitigation.
Lenovo is pulling away from the pack in China’s PC market. While the overall market grew 5% in 2025, Lenovo saw a massive 14% year-over-year surge in Q3, capturing 39% market share. Meanwhile, competitors like Huawei saw shipments drop.
A flood of new data centers is overwhelming the PJM power grid, leading to billions in added costs for 67 million customers and raising the risk of blackouts. A bipartisan legislative coalition is pushing a “bring-your-own-power” plan to make tech giants responsible for their own energy needs.
Carrier Connect is expanding its data center portfolio with the acquisition of Ottawa-based PureColo. The deal involves 4.6 million common shares and US$2.3 million in cash. PureColo brings two facilities and about 60 customers into the fold.
BlackRock is partnering with AWS to host its Aladdin investment platform in the cloud. The service, which once managed over $21 trillion in assets, will become generally available in the US in the second half of 2026. Amazon itself will use it to manage its corporate investment portfolio.
A new report reveals a massive gap in AI adoption for finance. While most companies have started using AI in accounts payable, very few are using it for its most powerful feature: data-driven decision-making. The hurdle is a fundamental lack of trust in the technology’s governance.
