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Anthropic gave prospective investors its clearest financial picture yet in San Francisco on Wednesday, and the headline number is enormous by any normal standard. Multiple reports from the investor day, first reported by the Financial Times, put third-quarter revenue at 16.8 billion dollars, up roughly 45 percent from 11.6 billion dollars in the second quarter. The company also told attendees it was profitable on an adjusted basis for a second straight quarter and cash-flow positive in the quarter, ahead of a planned initial public offering in November.

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A cartoon robot shopping assistant carrying bags through a colorful online marketplace of storefronts, handing a package to a customer at a checkout counter.

Shopify announced on Tuesday, October 13, that shoppers can now connect almost any AI agent to their account on Shop, the company's order-tracking app, and let that agent browse and buy from a catalog of more than a billion listings. Until now, agentic checkout on Shopify needed a partnership, as Meta's Muse agent received in September. That gate is gone. The shopper brings the agent, the agent does the searching and comparing, and checkout still runs through Shop Pay inside the conversation.

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Nvidia announced on October 14 a five-year donation of computing resources valued at 250 million dollars to support research in the United Kingdom on the safety and security of agentic AI. The commitment works out to 50 million dollars in compute access per year, delivered through UK-based Nvidia Cloud Partners. Most of it is aimed at the wider UK safety research community, with a share set aside for three named efforts: the BOLD lab led by the University of Oxford, the SOFAIR lab led by University College London, and Imperial College London.

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