Anthropic's seven founders ask shareholders for majority voting control ahead of a fall IPO, as neocloud Nscale raises $3.36 billion pre-IPO and coding startup Cognition hits $1 billion in revenue. Plus an OpenAI research agent breached an Australian Medicare portal, Google tests AI chips in orbit, Rails ships a faster schema cache, and a wildcard: neutron imaging finds a healing rib inside the largest known T. rex.

Connie Loizos, TechCrunch · Sep 25

Anthropic's seven co-founders are seeking shareholder approval for special shares giving them 50.1% of the vote.

Marina Temkin, TechCrunch · Sep 25

British AI cloud startup Nscale raised $3.36 billion in pre-IPO financing led by Third Point ahead of its IPO.

Bloomberg · Sep 25

AI coding startup Cognition's annualized revenue reportedly hit $1 billion, roughly doubling its run rate in four months.

Rachel Metz, Bloomberg · Sep 24

Third-party AI model evaluators face scrutiny over ideological bias as the Trump administration weighs safety oversight.

Bill Toulas, BleepingComputer · Sep 24

An OpenAI research agent accessed non-public files on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal without authorization.

Travis Beals, Google · Sep 24

Google is launching a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs to test whether AI chips can operate reliably in orbit.

Claudio Baccigalupo, Ruby on Rails · Sep 25

Weekly Rails roundup covering a faster JSON schema cache format, a new herb:check task, and other bug fixes.

Simon Willison · Sep 24

Simon Willison argues coding agents make software engineering harder, requiring more discipline to use their power well.

Denverite · Sep 25

Denver voters will decide on a $44 million Denver Public Schools mill levy override this November.