AI news · 1 November 2026

Anthropic Files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO, Reveals $16 Billion Half-Year Revenue
Anthropic filed its S-1 registration with the SEC ahead of a planned mid-November Nasdaq debut under the ticker ANT, disclosing explosive revenue growth and a targeting of the largest AI company IPO ever.

Apple and Alibaba Bring Qwen AI to Apple Intelligence in China
Apple and Alibaba jointly announced that Alibaba's Qwen model will power Apple Intelligence features for Chinese iPhone users, with a developer beta available from November 4 and a full rollout expected in December via iOS 27.3.

DeepSeek Open-Sources Super-Agent, a Proactive Coding AI That Watches Developer Chats
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released Super-Agent as an open-source research prototype on November 1 — a coding agent that monitors team group chats and GitHub repositories to spot problems and suggest fixes without being prompted.

Deepgram Acquires Pipecat-Maker Daily to Build Open Voice-AI Infrastructure
Enterprise voice AI company Deepgram acquired Daily, the startup behind the popular open-source Pipecat framework that has raised over $62 million in funding, pledging to keep the project open-source and launching a new open protocol for real-time voice agents.

Chinese BCI Startup NeuroXess Raises RMB 700 Million in Series B Funding
NeuroXess has closed a RMB 700 million Series B round to expand its implantable brain-computer interface technology, multicenter clinical trials, and manufacturing capacity across China.
