AI news for small business, Tuesday, 27 October 2026
12 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.
HIGHLIGHT
Anthropic files to list on the stock market, and its paperwork shows $16.3 billion of revenue in six months but no profit yet
The company behind Claude has asked to go public. Its numbers say a lot about how fast AI is growing and who pays for it.
ANTHROPIC|26 OCT
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