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- Anthropic transfers 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund (if shareholders approve), and the board of directors may add a further 2% for every +50% in the company’s value above a baseline; among the fund’s possible purposes is helping workers affected by AI, up to and including direct payments to particular groupsWork & jobs · Business & markets · Finance & money · AI and jobs · anthropic.com ↗
- TypeSafe AI raises $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation; its model Jev does not generate text and outputs only typed decisionsBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · typesafe.ai ↗
- CrowdStrike: a threat actor, likely Chinese-speaking, attacked South Korean financial organisations using ARTEX, an open-source Chinese agentic pentesting tool, and Claude Code; the number of affected organisations is unconfirmedCybersecurity · Finance & money · Autonomous AI agents · crowdstrike.com ↗
- Following JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America bar third-party AI agents from logging into customer accounts with the customers’ usernames and passwords; read-only access through open banking services remainsFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · fstech.co.uk ↗ ⧗
- According to the WSJ, citing a draft IPO prospectus, Anthropic’s revenue for the first half of 2026 was $16.3 billion versus $1.1 billion a year earlier, and its net loss exceeded $80 billion, of which $72 billion was an accounting remeasurement of convertible notes and other financial instrumentsBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · aljazeera.com ↗ ⧗
- The Block, citing World: more than 18 million people verified with the Orb, about 39 million signed upPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- Kuaishou announces raising 13.82 billion yuan (about $2 billion) for its subsidiary Kling (video generation)Business & markets · Finance & money · Generative video · www1.hkexnews.hk ↗
- Anthropic confidentially files a draft IPO prospectus (Form S-1) with the SECBusiness & markets · Finance & money · AI labs · anthropic.com ↗
- World and Coinbase release AgentKit: a person delegates their World ID to an AI agent, and a website sees that one unique human stands behind the agentPrivacy & surveillance · Software development · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- OpenAI and Stripe launch Instant Checkout: ChatGPT users in the US buy from Etsy sellers right in the chat, and the agent commerce protocol is openFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · openai.com ↗
- Google announces AP2, an agent payments protocol: every purchase by an agent is backed by a signed “mandate” from the user; more than 60 organisations are working on itFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · cloud.google.com ↗
- World launches in the US; partners include Visa, Tinder and StripePrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Business & markets · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Mastercard unveils Agent Pay, a technology that lets AI agents pay for purchases on a user's behalf; it plans to start with MicrosoftFinance & money · Business & markets · Autonomous AI agents · mastercard.com ↗
- DeepSeek-R1: a cheap open reasoning model; on 27 January NVIDIA shares fall ~17%Finance & money · Business & markets · Open weights · api-docs.deepseek.com ↗
- Permira buys a majority stake in BioCatch at a $1.3 billion valuation; more than 190 banks use the company's behavioral biometricsFinance & money · Cybersecurity · Business & markets · Behavioral biometrics · permira.com ↗
- Global launch of Worldcoin and the WLD token: about 2 million people got a World ID during the betaPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · world.org ↗
- Worldcoin, from Sam Altman and Alex Blania, comes out of stealth with $25 million in funding and a promise to hand out tokens for iris scansPrivacy & surveillance · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · techcrunch.com ↗
- Bryan Ford's group (EPFL) coins the term proof-of-personhood: a mechanism that binds physical entities to virtual identities while preserving anonymityPrivacy & surveillance · Cybersecurity · Finance & money · Proof of personhood · bford.info ↗
- Mastercard buys NuData Security, a “passive biometrics and behavioral analytics company”Finance & money · Cybersecurity · Business & markets · Behavioral biometrics · investor.mastercard.com ↗
- The Bitcoin network launchesFinance & money · Cryptocurrencies · nasdaq.com ↗
- Satoshi Nakamoto publishes the description of BitcoinFinance & money · Cryptocurrencies · theblock.co ↗
- Peak of the dot-com bubble: the NASDAQ index hits its high, then crashesBusiness & markets · Finance & money · Dot-com bubble · en.wikipedia.org ↗