AI news · 27 October 2026
Anthropic Files for IPO That Could Break Records
AI company Anthropic submitted an S-1 registration to the SEC on 26 October, seeking a public listing under the ticker "ANT" in what analysts say could be one of the biggest IPOs ever.
Meta Plans Record $95 Billion Share Sale to Fund AI Expansion
Meta Platforms launched its largest-ever equity fundraising on 27 October, seeking up to $95 billion in stock sales to bankroll AI data-centre construction as it reported its first negative free cash flow in over a decade.
Mistral Launches Public Preview of Large 4 'Le Chonk,' a One-Trillion-Parameter Model with Open Weights Planned
French AI company Mistral has entered Mistral Large 4 into public preview, with plans to release its one-trillion-parameter multimodal model's open weights on October 27 following a roughly three-week testing period with developers, cybersecurity leaders, and government authorities.
OpenAI and Anthropic Slash AI Prices as Chinese Rivals Close the Gap
OpenAI cut its GPT-5.6 Luna model price by 80% to $0.20 per million input tokens, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at roughly half the cost of its predecessor, as competition from cheaper Chinese AI labs forces Western providers to lower rates.