Anthropic, the company behind the AI assistant Claude, filed for an initial public offering on Monday in what experts predict could be one of the largest stock market debuts in history.

While global tech stocks teeter, in China they have already crashed as lofty valuations collapse under worries about AI demand and curbs on Chinese exports.

SpaceX chief predicts ‘guppy-level death and consolidation’ among data centre providers as funding dries up

Updated Oct 24, 2026, 6:58 PM GMT Peter Thiel said that after Steve Jobs died in 2011, Apple hasn't innovated. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Peter Thiel, evidently, isn't a fan of the iPhone Duo. In fact, the billionaire PayPal cofounder and tech investor said he hasn't been very impressed with much of anything that Apple has done since its eccentric founder, Steve Jobs, died of cancer in 2011. "In my telling, it did nothing new after Jobs," Thiel said of the iPhone maker in a September interview

A massive data centre to provide computing power for artificial intelligence is under pre-construction just outside a town on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.