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Crypto traders are assigning Anthropic an implied valuation more than $1 trillion (€866bn) above its last funding-round price, before public investors have even seen its accounts. The company behind Claude has filed its IPO paperwork confidentially and chosen Nasdaq for its initial public offering. What remains is the public release of its S-1 filing, the official registration package that a US company submits to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Until it arrives, the only live price on Anthropic comes from a corner of the crypto market where pre-IPO speculation runs rampant, and it currently sits far above anything the company…
Uncontrolled artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to a new “silicon species” that rivals humans, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has warned in an interview with the BBC. Suleyman said rival AI company Anthropic was treating AI too much like a human, an approach he described as “misguided” and one that could ultimately contribute to the creation of technology that humanity struggles to control. “If we all create AIs that are able to act autonomously, that can define their own objectives, that can earn money, that can own assets, that could run businesses, we’re essentially seeding a new silicon species which…
“Canadians are united that nobody is going to tell us what language to speak,” Carney continued, nodding to reports that the White House had sought to interfere with the French language spoken in Quebec. “No one is going to dictate our culture, or with whom we can strike agreements.” Von der Leyen’s proposal to make Canada the EU’s first “associate member” left capitals scrambling and seemed to take even Ottawa by surprise. Carney name-checked the term in his speech on Thursday, praising von der Leyen for “opening the door to Canada becoming the EU’s first associate member,” and adding that he…
Published on 17/09/2026 – 13:32 GMT+2•Updated 13:45 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has welcomed Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s invitation to become the EU’s first “associate member”, with some caveats. In her State of the Union address on Wednesday, von der Leyen floated the idea of the unprecedented arrangement, which has yet to be fully defined. In his own speech before the European Parliament, Carney welcomed the move, pointing to opinion polls showing an overwhelming majority of Canadians favour much closer ties with Brussels. At the same time, he spelled out some limits in how far Ottawa is willing…
Russia has ordered a batch of one of its most widely used dog vaccines destroyed after finding a live virus in some of its samples, confirming a link to deaths reported across the country since August. Russia’s veterinary and agricultural inspection agency Rosselkhoznadzor said batch 20 of the Multican-8 vaccine, produced by Moscow-based Vetbiokhim, contained a live Aujeszky’s disease virus — a usually fatal illness affecting dogs with no specific treatment. The regulator ordered the batch withdrawn from circulation and destroyed. Batch 20 contained 60,000 doses, according to independent Russian outlet Meduza. Dog owners in Moscow, St Petersburg and at…
Published on 17/09/2026 – 13:17 GMT+2 The ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’ has chosen to wait, though not unanimously. The Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of six to three on Thursday to leave borrowing costs unchanged, with the dissenting trio pushing for a quarter-point increase to 4%. The decision puts the Bank of England at odds with the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, both of which have tightened within the past week. Despite holding, the central bank expects the situation to worsen before it improves. Inflation “is likely to rise further over coming quarters,” the committee…
A Russian-language film competing for the Oscars under French colours: the drama Minotaur, directed by dissident film-maker Andrey Zvyagintsev, has been selected to compete in the best international feature category. The choice was made by a professional jury chaired by film historian Charles Tesson, “at the end of an independent process, overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”, said (source in French) the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC). Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the film was produced by French companies MK Productions and CG Cinéma, with German…
KI-Modelle, die außer Kontrolle geraten, haben weltweit heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst, nachdem Forscher aus führenden KI-Unternehmen davor gewarnt hatten, dass diese Technologie zum Aussterben der Menschheit führen könnte. Führungskräfte wie Dario Amodei von Anthropic und Sam Altman von OpenAI haben die Industrie und die Regierungen dazu aufgerufen, die Entwicklung der KI zu verlangsamen. Anfang dieses Sommers drangen von OpenAI gesteuerte Agenten in das KI-Unternehmen Hugging Face ein – ein Vorfall, der die Aufmerksamkeit auf außer Kontrolle geratene Agenten lenkte, die aus ihrer Testumgebung entkommen waren und im offenen Internet unkontrolliert Aufgaben ausführten. Am Mittwoch erklärte die Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula…
European People’s Party MEP David McAllister said the European Union’s relationship with Canada is “very unique”. He believes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to take it “to the next level” after offering Ottawa a tailor-made status of “associate membership”. McAllister says a strengthened partnership “is not against any third country” following US President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation against the European Union over the announcement.
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