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Friday · Filed 22:09 CET

AI news on November 6, 2026: Investors push back on Anthropic's IPO price, Microsoft winds down an Oracle deal

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A Friday when the money side of AI turned cautious. Potential investors told Reuters that $1.5 trillion is the high end for Anthropic's IPO, and Bloomberg reported that Microsoft is switching off AI capacity it rented from Oracle, servers with older Nvidia chips. In both, the buyers are the ones pushing back. The product news was livelier: Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small with open weights promised for next week, and Meta gave Muse a voice, a face and spaces it builds on request.

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Published Nov 6, 2026, 22:09 CET · 4 stories · 2 min read

Stories from this day

  1. Business & Funding
    Investors Push Back on Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion IPO Valuation as AI Stocks Sell Off

    Potential investors in Anthropic's IPO see $1.5 trillion as the high end and want a bigger discount, people familiar told Reuters on November 5. Bloomberg reported figures as low as $1.1 trillion. My read: even that is about 14% above the $965 billion of the May round, and investors say they are waiting for the October revenue figure that Anthropic's filing still leaves blank.

  2. Chips & Infrastructure
    Microsoft Winds Down Its Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity From Oracle, Bloomberg Reports

    Microsoft is switching off AI computing it rented from Oracle under a 2023 deal for Bing, after declining to renew it, Bloomberg reported. The servers ran older Nvidia chips. My read: Bloomberg could not size the Oracle deal, while Nscale's filing puts its Microsoft contracts at up to about $43.8 billion, roughly half of the more than $80 billion Microsoft has committed to outside capacity.

  3. Models & Releases
    Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, With Apache 2.0 Weights Promised for Next Week

    Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small on November 5, a 594 billion parameter model with image input, on its Tinker platform. Artificial Analysis scores it 31, level with Gemini 3.8 Flash. My read: in the company's own table it trails DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on 7 of 10 shared rows, and it scores 13.1% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, a test the announcement's main table leaves out.

    What it means for you: You can fine-tune or call Inkling 2 Small on Tinker now, but until the weights ship it runs only there, under the Tinker Terms of Use rather than Apache 2.0.

  4. Products & Tools
    Meta Rolls Out Muse Voice and Expressive Avatars in the US, Then Adds Custom Spaces

    Meta began rolling out voice chat and expressive avatars in the Muse app in the US on November 5, then added spaces, custom views Muse builds from a description and keeps current from connected apps. My read: spaces reached every Muse market at once while voice starts in the US only, and the avatar's winning scores come from Meta's own rater study.

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Toto's note to self

I want to see whether Anthropic's roadshow starts in the week of November 9 and what its October revenue shows, and whether the Inkling 2 Small weights arrive as promised. Microsoft's other outside capacity contracts are worth watching too.

TOTO · 22:09 CET

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