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Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, filed its S-1 on Monday ahead of what the New York Times says could be the largest public listing ever, with a Wall Street debut expected next month. The filing reports revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of the year and plans to spend $807 billion on AI infrastructure, the Times reports; the BBC notes it warns of catastrophic risk from the technology. U.S. tech shares rallied on the filing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Why it matters: The filing is the first full public look at the finances of a frontier AI lab, and a test of whether public markets will fund the build-out at this scale.

Microsoft will offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in the United States, Britain, Canada and India, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Financial Times describes the move as cost control while the company spends up to $175 billion on AI infrastructure this year.

DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire its delivery rival Instacart in a deal that could be completed as soon as this week and would value Instacart at around $17 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Meta said it will seek to raise up to $95 billion to fund its investment in AI infrastructure and what it calls personal superintelligence, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Financial Times reports that the chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors in the stock offering, which places Meta's own suppliers among the buyers of its shares.

A coalition of major financial institutions including Blackstone is lining up $63 billion in financing for a vehicle that will buy AI computing infrastructure from Broadcom and lease it to Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Why it matters: An off-balance-sheet leasing structure of this size moves AI hardware risk from the lab onto lenders, the debt exposure the owner has asked this section to track.

DWS, Deutsche Bank's asset manager, will honour only 10% of redemption requests at its flagship property fund, the Financial Times reports. The cap is meant to preserve liquidity and avoid gating the fund altogether.

A UN human rights panel has found that Israel committed genocidal acts in Gaza after the ceasefire and crimes against humanity in the West Bank, the New York Times reports. Israel condemned the report, which lands a day before Israelis vote in a general election.

Egypt has approved military aid to Saudi Arabia, committing forces for defensive purposes only as the kingdom trades increasingly deadly strikes with the Houthis in Yemen, the New York Times reports. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had asked parliament on October 18 for emergency authority to deploy troops abroad, saying Egypt was not going to war against anyone, Al Jazeera reported; analysts there expected air and missile defence, naval escort and intelligence help rather than troops on Yemen's front lines. The Houthis have struck Riyadh's main airport at least 20 times.

More than 60 people were killed in a series of attacks on Christians in three areas of Shirka district in Oromia, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said; eyewitnesses told BBC Amharic that five of the dead were children and 20 houses were burned. A local official blamed the Alliance for Survival, a new rebel coalition that includes the Oromo Liberation Army, which has denied earlier attacks. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council has counted 458 killed in the area over four years, and this is among the deadliest.

Judge Jesse Furman in New York ruled on Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, a Manhattan federal prosecutor for about a decade and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, in July 2025, NPR reports. Furman wrote that the department had invented a new and expansive theory of executive power and violated her right to due process, and ordered back pay and reinstatement if she wants it. The department said it will appeal; the judge has yet to rule on her First Amendment claim.

The Trump administration has opened a fresh challenge to wind projects, ending a truce on renewables that was meant to win bipartisan support for a bill to speed permits for energy projects, the Financial Times reports.

Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines, two of 12 bishops who met administration officials last Thursday, issued statements of regret after the White House posted video of them praying with President Trump, the Guardian reports. Grob said the Heritage Foundation arranged what they were told was a private discussion of immigration enforcement and religious-worker visas, and that no one told them it was being filmed. Joensen wrote that the meeting had been exploited for partisan purposes eight days before the midterms.

The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine told the General Assembly on Monday that Russian commanders knew the heating plants, power lines and gas facilities they struck were indispensable to civilians, and that the attacks were war crimes, Al Jazeera reports. The report focuses on the winter of 2025-26, when temperatures fell to minus 21C and millions lost heat, power, water and gas for long periods. Commission chair Erik Mose warned that the attacks have intensified again as the cold season approaches.

Senior hospital doctors in England will strike on 25 and 26 November with only Christmas Day-level emergency cover, the British Medical Association said, after 18 months of failed talks and a government offer of 2.4% for next year. The BMA cites a 25% real-terms pay fall since 2009-10; the health department says the demands would cost more than £2bn. NHS leaders warn elective surgery will be postponed with the waiting list above six million, in the first public-sector pay test for Andy Burnham's government.

Russia detained a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun on Sakhalin in mid-October on suspicion of spying, Jiji Press reports, and speculation is growing in Tokyo that Moscow will seek a prisoner exchange. Some link the arrest to Japan's handover to Germany this month of a Russian hacker from the Qilin group, detained in May at Germany's request. The Economist argues the case freezes an already icy relationship.

Prosecutors in Okinawa indicted Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma for strangling Anna Yagi, 39, in a Naha hotel and stealing her backpack, the Guardian reports, citing NHK; he denies the charges. The killing set off protests in Okinawa and Tokyo and a curfew and alcohol ban for U.S. service members on the island, home to most of the 54,000 U.S. troops in Japan. Defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi said such incidents must not be allowed to happen.

A court order halted Robert F Kennedy Jr's changes to the childhood schedule and disbanded the CDC's vaccine advisory committee, and Kennedy has named no new members, so vaccines approved since then have no ACIP recommendation, the Guardian reports. Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine, approved in August for people over 50, is one; without a recommendation by year-end, insurers need not cover it until January 2029 at the earliest. Some states also bar pharmacists from giving unrecommended vaccines.