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Anthropic's $800 Billion Buzz Threatens To Dethrone OpenAI
Anthropic is holding discussions with investors regarding a new funding round that would place the company's valuation at $800 billion, more than doubling its $350 billion mark in February. With this rapid rise, it is closing in on OpenAI's $850 billion valuation, putting pressure on the company's lead in the artificial intelligence space. It is unclear if the Anthropic will accept this new $800 billion valuation as discussions are still ongoing and could change, Bloomberg reported. This is primarily due to the adoption of its Claude AI model, which has grown particularly popular in the enterprise coding sector. Reports state that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in revenue run rate for the first time. The AI company is focusing heavily on enterprise clients, with roughly 80% of its revenue coming from business customers. The artificial intelligence company also recently launched Claude Mythos Preview, a model that can identify software vulnerabilities, to a small number of companies for testing. The launch is reportedly so powerful that the company restricted access over cybersecurity concerns and has only strengthened its positioning ahead of a potential IPO later this year. Meanwhile, OpenAI achieved a valuation of $852 billion in a funding round that closed last month. Some of OpenAI's investors have raised concerns about this new valuation total, in light of Anthropic's rapid growth and competitive nature. OpenAI's CFO Sarah Frair told the Financial Times that the company's record-breaking fundraising shows continued investor confidence in the sector. Meanwhile, Sapphire Ventures president Jai Das told The Financial Times he "saw OpenAI as the 'Netscape of AI,'" in reference to a once popular web browser that was superseded by Microsoft and absorbed by AOL. Photo: Shutterstock Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs To add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.
Morgan Stanley participating in Anthropic's Claude Mythos testing - WatersTechnology.com
Morgan Stanley has signaled it is making a deeper commitment to agentic AI. CEO Ted Pick called the technology "our friend" during the bank's earnings call earlier today and said the firm is at an important moment in its in-house use of agentic tools. "We are beginning to evolve from pure efficiency exercises, where you have effectively replaced what might have been a call center or an operational function to automate routine tasks like moving money, to something that, over time, becomes a
Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's pick for the next Federal Reserve chair, is worth more than $100 million, according to a financial disclosure report released by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Tuesday. Warsh will testify before the Senate at a confirmation hearing on April 21. It's customary for nominated political appointees to submit financial disclosures ahead of Senate confirmation hearings, and the values of their assets are typically given in large ranges. Warsh's assets are valued between $131 million and more than $209 million in total, according to The Wall Street Journal. His largest assets are two investments in "Juggernaut Fund" worth more than $50 million each. He also owns more than four dozen assets associated with THSDFS LLC, some individually worth as much as $5 million. Warsh reported having stakes in SpaceX and prediction market Polymarket, though did not disclose their value. He also has stakes in several dozen AI companies including Cafe X, the robotic coffee bar company, and several crypto investment and trading firms. Upon confirmation, Warsh will resign his positions on the board of UPS and as a partner at investment firm Duquesne Family Office LLC, where he made $10.2 million in consulting fees. The disclosures also included the holdings of Warsh's wife, Jane Lauder, the granddaughter of cosmetics billionaire Estée Lauder, who sits on the board of The Estée Lauder Companies. Lauder has a personal net worth of $2 billion and owns more than a million in Class A stock in Estée Lauder, according to the filing. Warsh currently owns between $1 million and $5 million in UPS vested phantom stock and another $1 million and $5 million in vested restricted stock units, according to the filing. Six months after his confirmation, he will receive a cash payment equal to the value of the vested phantom stock, Warsh wrote. He will also resign his positions at the think tanks Group of 30 and the Hoover Institution, as well as a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Warsh previously served as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011. Before that, Warsh worked for Morgan Stanley from 1995 to 2002 and left the company as a vice president and executive director. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him as special assistant to the president for economic policy and executive secretary at the National Economic Council where he served until 2006 when the president nominated to the Fed. While Warsh's confirmation hearing is scheduled for next week, it could be some time before he takes over from current Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has vowed to block any of the president's Fed nominees until the Department of Justice's criminal probe of Powell is resolved. This will most likely lead to a 12-12 split vote on the narrowly divided banking committee, stopping the nomination from reaching the entire Senate for a vote. If confirmed, Warsh will make $253,100 a year, the salary of top-level political appointees such as cabinet secretaries and agency heads.
An open-source bot that only bets "no" on Polymarket is making money
Sterling Crispin, an artist and engineer, built a Python bot called Nothing Ever Happens that does one thing on Polymarket -- it bets against every event. New prediction market opens? The bot buys "No." Automatically, around the clock, for every market it can find. Polymarket is a platform where people wager real money on whether future events will happen -- elections, missile strikes, celebrity arrests, whatever. The prices function like probability estimates: if "Will X happen?" trades at 30 cents, the market thinks there's a 30% chance. Crispin's thesis is simple. People flock to dramatic scenarios and bid up prices on exciting outcomes. A potential war gets more attention (and more money) than the boring reality that most wars don't start. The bot exploits that asymmetry by automatically scanning for new markets and placing small bets on the dull outcome. The README describes it as "an art project and not financial advice," which is the kind of disclaimer you attach to something that works. The strategy has a name in finance -- selling volatility -- but dressing it up as conceptual art makes the commentary land harder. Prediction markets are supposed to be wisdom-of-crowds truth machines. A bot that profits by betting nothing happens suggests the crowds are juiced on anxiety. The code is open-source, so anyone can run their own copy. A swarm of nihilist bots all betting "No" on everything would be quite a thing to watch.
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Anthropic's Project Glasswing CVE count is still guesswork
Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered? According to VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity, the answer is...drumroll...maybe 40. Or maybe none at all. Anthropic announced its newest model on April 7, and at the time said Claude Mythos Preview has found and can develop exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities "in every major operating system and every major web browser." Because setting this type of zero-day machine loose on society at large would cause mass chaos and break the internet as we know it - at least according to the AI company itself - Anthropic instead is allowing a group of about 50 industry partners to preview the bug hunting machine so that they can find and fix flaws in their tech before the bad guys get a chance to exploit them. This preview initiative is called Project Glasswing, and while we still don't know all the participants, we do know that they include Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and Intel. When discussing Project Glasswing, "one question keeps coming up," Garrity said in a Wednesday blog post. "What exactly did it find, disclose, and receive CVEs for?" So he decided to scour the CVE database, which includes more than 327,000 CVE records, to find out. Garrity searched the database for any and all records containing the word "Anthropic" from February onward, and then reviewed all of these results. He found 75 records containing his search term "Anthropic," but of those, 35 are CVEs affecting Anthropic tools such as Claude Code, MCP Inspector, as well as third party integrations, so they are not Glasswing-linked bugs. So no dice. The remaining 40 are credited to Anthropic or Anthropic-affiliated researchers, so these may be Glasswing finds, but we can't guarantee it. "The 40 break down across three distinct credit attributions: the core Anthropic research team, Nicholas Carlini individually, and Calif.io, an independent security research firm running a program called MADBugs (Month of AI-Discovered Bugs) that credits their work jointly as 'Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research,'" Garrity wrote. Broken down by vendor: 28 of the 40 CVEs are in Mozilla's Firefox browser, nine are in the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library, one is in F5's NGINX Plus application delivery platform, and one each in open source operating system FreeBSD and open source software library OpenSSL. Only one publicly disclosed CVE can be "directly tied" to Glasswing, according to Garrity. That's CVE-2026-4747, a remote code execution bug in FreeBSD. While the CVE record credits "Nicholas Carlini using Claude, Anthropic" with finding and reporting this bug - not Glasswing, specifically - Anthropic's blog last week namedropped CVE-2026-4747, and described it thus: "Mythos Preview fully autonomously identified and then exploited a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD that allows anyone to gain root on a machine running NFS." Anthropic has also said that the Mythos Preview found a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, a 16-year-old FFmpeg bug, and Linux kernel privilege escalation chains. None of these have been assigned CVEs. "The full picture won't be known until public disclosure takes place and Anthropic has indicated a public summary report is expected around July 2026," Garrity said. He also suggested that Anthropic "create a dedicated security advisory page where security advisories and vulnerability disclosures were published in a consistent way, to provide a way for consumers to understand the question: what vulnerabilities have been discovered by the Anthropic research team and Project Glasswing?" ®
OpenAI's Internal Memo Attacks Anthropic
OpenAI circulated an internal memo this week directly attacking rival Anthropic, accusing it of inflating its $30 billion revenue figure by roughly $8 billion as Claude's grip on enterprise AI becomes increasingly hard for the company to dismiss. OpenAI's chief revenue officer Denise Dresser sent a four-page internal memo to employees this past Sunday attacking rival Anthropic, accusing it of inflating its widely reported $30 billion run-rate figure by roughly $8 billion. The memo, reported by CNBC and The Verge, alleges that Anthropic "grosses up" revenue sharing from its cloud partnerships with Amazon and Google rather than reporting net figures, which OpenAI does with its Microsoft arrangement. The accusation puts the real Anthropic figure closer to $22 billion, which would place it behind OpenAI's reported $24 billion run rate. Both companies are preparing for potential IPOs and are competing aggressively for enterprise contracts and investor positioning. Dresser goes well beyond accounting in the note. She describes Anthropic's strategy as built on "fear, restriction, and the idea that a small group of elites should control AI," contrasting it with what she frames as OpenAI's more "positive message." She also calls Anthropic's compute strategy a "strategic misstep," noting that OpenAI is targeting 30 gigawatts of compute by 2030 while projecting Anthropic will have only 7 to 8 gigawatts by end-2027. Anthropic announced a deal with Google and Broadcom earlier this month for "multiple gigawatts" of compute. OpenAI itself is also in the middle of a pivot, turning to Amazon after acknowledging that its Microsoft partnership has "limited our ability" to reach enterprise clients on rival cloud platforms. The sharpness of the memo reflects a real competitive problem for OpenAI. At the HumanX conference in San Francisco last week, enterprise sentiment was overwhelmingly in Anthropic's favor. Arvind Jain, CEO of enterprise AI startup Glean, described the phenomenon plainly. "It has become a religion, that's the level of that mania," he said of Claude's penetration into corporate workflows. Anthropic's momentum has come primarily from Claude Mythos and its coding tools, which have driven the revenue surge from $9 billion to $30 billion in under a year. The two labs are also racing to build competing AI cybersecurity products, with OpenAI finalizing a security tool for limited partner release while Anthropic runs its tightly controlled Project Glasswing initiative. OpenAI is valued at over $850 billion following a March fundraise. Anthropic was valued at $380 billion in its most recent round. Both companies are heading into IPO windows with very different stories to tell investors about their enterprise position. The memo is notable precisely because confident market leaders do not typically challenge a rival's accounting in writing. It signals that Anthropic's gains are being felt inside OpenAI in a way that a memo to employees alone cannot solve.
NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk's xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new lawsuit accuses Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company of illegally spewing toxic pollutants into residential neighborhoods on the border of Tennessee and Mississippi. The suit, filed on Tuesday in Mississippi federal court, alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act due to emissions from its makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, which powers its datacenter there. The NAACP, represented by environmental groups Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, says xAI has been polluting areas with homes, schools and churches, including in historically Black communities, by using dozens of methane gas generators without permits. The organization is seeking to force the company to stop operating its unpermitted turbines in Southaven. "A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community's health," Abre' Conner, the director of environmental and climate justice for the NAACP, said in a statement. "By looking to evade clear air laws to operate dirty turbines that emit pollution and known carcinogens, these companies are following a shameful, familiar pattern: asking Black and frontline communities to bear the toxic brunt of 'innovation'." xAI has two datacenters in the region, nicknamed "Colossus" and "Colossus II" . They are massive facilities, with the latter occupying 1m sq ft in Southaven. Colossus is located in Tennessee in Memphis's industrial zone and a few miles from residential neighborhoods that have long dealt with harmful pollution, including Boxtown, a neighborhood that was established by formerly enslaved people after emancipation in the 19th century. The NAACP's lawsuit alleges xAI illegally installed and operated up to 27 gas turbines, each one the size of a large bus, to power its datacenter in Southaven. The group claims Colossus II has the capacity to emit more than 1,700 tons of harmful nitrogen oxides per year, along with toxic chemicals like formaldehyde. xAI did not respond to request for comment. Black residents still make up a large portion of the Memphis area neighborhoods, which have faced higher rates of asthma and respiratory diseases as well as a lower life expectancy than other parts of the city. Studies have likewise shown these neighborhoods have a cancer risk that is four times the national average. The NAACP is asking the court to declare that xAI violated the Clean Air Act, order the company to install the "best available control technology on the power plant" and to pay financial penalties for every day it violated federal law. The NAACP has a similar pending lawsuit against xAI for its Colossus facility in Memphis. Methane gas generators keep multiplying xAI announced the construction of its first Colossus datacenter in Memphis in 2024 to power its chatbot Grok. Shortly after, dozens of methane gas generators started to appear at that location. By the time Musk said the facility was up and running, 122 days later, there were at least 18 generators going, per aerial photographs the Southern Environmental Law Center took of the facility. By April 2025, that number had nearly doubled, photos showed. Eventually, xAI got permits for 15 generators there. Last year, xAI began work on Colossus II in Southaven and again brought in dozens of portable gas turbines. In March, Mississippi regulators approved a permit for 41 permanent turbines in Southaven. The NAACP says xAI is illegally operating 27 generators at this location without air permits and is asking that regulators revoke the March permit. Separately, xAI is working on building another data center in Southaven named Macrohardrr, where it's expected to also use gas-burning turbines. The rapid growth of xAI in Memphis and Southaven has seen fierce opposition from residents, despite support from each city's mayor and the chamber of commerce. Community members, local politicians and environmental non-profits have held protests and public forums to speak out against the pollution they say xAI is generating. "Our right to clean air is not up for negotiation, especially when companies prove expediency not people is their priority," said NAACP's Conner.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing to preempt AI-driven cyberattacks
Anthropic last week announced Project Glasswing, in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks. Claude Mythos Preview revealed that "AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities," the company stated in a press release. Mythos Preview found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser. The vulnerabilities it has spotted have, in some cases, survived decades of human review and millions of automated security tests, and the exploits it develops are increasingly sophisticated, Anthropic said. The model found a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg. Mythos can autonomously chain multiple vulnerabilities together to create complex "zero-day" exploit chains with minimal human interaction. Project Glasswing will attempt to use these capabilities for defensive purposes. "The window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited by an adversary has collapsed -- what once took months now happens in minutes with AI," said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike. "Claude Mythos Preview demonstrates what is now possible for defenders at scale, and adversaries will inevitably look to exploit the same capabilities. That is not a reason to slow down; it's a reason to move together, faster. If you want to deploy AI, you need security." Leveraging agentic reasoning for autonomous vulnerability discovery As part of the project, the launch partners will use Mythos Preview for defensive security work. Anthropic has also extended access to over 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure, enabling them to use the model to scan and secure both first-party and open-source systems. Anthropic is committing up to $100 million in usage credits for Mythos Preview across these efforts, as well as $4 million in direct donations to open-source security organizations. Anthropic anticipates this work will focus on tasks like local vulnerability detection, black box testing of binaries, securing endpoints and penetration testing of systems. Anthropic's commitment of $100M in model usage credits to Project Glasswing and additional participants will cover substantial usage throughout this research preview. Afterward, Claude Mythos Preview will be available to participants at $25/$125 per million input/output tokens (participants can access the model on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry). Partners will, to the extent they're able, share information and best practices with each other; within 90 days, Anthropic will report publicly on what it learns, as well as the vulnerabilities fixed and improvements made that can be disclosed. It will also collaborate with leading security organizations to produce a set of practical recommendations for how security practices should evolve in the AI era. Developing safeguards for the next generation of agentic coding models As AI models become better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, safeguards are increasingly necessary to protect against cyberattacks. On the global stage, state-sponsored attacks from actors like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have threatened to compromise the infrastructure that underpins both civilian life and military readiness. Even smaller-scale attacks, such as those where individual hospitals or schools are targeted, can still inflict substantial economic damage, expose sensitive data, and even put lives at risk. The current global financial costs of cybercrime are challenging to estimate, but might be around $500B every year. "We've been testing Claude Mythos Preview in our own security operations, applying it to critical codebases, where it's already helping us strengthen our code. We're bringing deep security expertise to our partnership with Anthropic and are helping to harden Claude Mythos Preview," said Amy Herzog, VP and CISO at AWS. The powerful cyber capabilities of Claude Mythos Preview are a result of its strong agentic coding and reasoning skills. The model has the highest scores of any model yet developed on a variety of software coding tasks. Anthropic does not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available. Instead, the company aims to enable its users to deploy Mythos class models at scale for cybersecurity purposes and other benefits. It plans to launch new safeguards with an upcoming Claude Opus model to improve and refine them with a different model that poses less risk. Anthropic has also been in ongoing discussions with U.S. government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Security initiative or PR play? Bruce Schneier, a security expert, criticized the project, saying, "This is very much a PR play by Anthropic." He mentioned that Aisle, a security company, was able to replicate the vulnerabilities that Mythos found using older, cheaper, public models. Similarly, Heidy Khlaaf, an AI safety researcher, told Mashable, "Releasing a marketing post with purposely vague language that clearly obscures evidence needed to substantiate Anthropic's claims brings into question if they are trying to garner further investment. It also serves their 'safety first' image as they're able to frame the lack of public release, even a limited one for independent evaluation, as a public service when it simply obscures even experts' abilities to validate their claims." Still, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) confirmed that Claude Mythos passed cybersecurity tests that no other model had ever completed and scored higher than any other frontier model on virtually every test. Claude Mythos' capabilities appear genuine, but Anthropic's framing may overstate its novelty and danger.
Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket | Fortune
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump's pick for the next Federal Reserve chair, is worth more than $100 million, according to a financial disclosure report released by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Tuesday. Warsh will testify before the Senate at a confirmation hearing on April 21. It's customary for nominated political appointees to submit financial disclosures ahead of Senate confirmation hearings, and the values of their assets are typically given in large ranges. Warsh's assets are valued between $131 million and more than $209 million in total, according to The Wall Street Journal. His largest assets are two investments in "Juggernaut Fund" worth more than $50 million each. He also owns more than four dozen assets associated with THSDFS LLC, some individually worth as much as $5 million. Warsh reported having stakes in SpaceX and prediction market Polymarket, though did not disclose their value. He also has stakes in several dozen AI companies including Cafe X, the robotic coffee bar company, and several crypto investment and trading firms. Upon confirmation, Warsh will resign his positions on the board of UPS and as a partner at investment firm Duquesne Family Office LLC, where he made $10.2 million in consulting fees. The disclosures also included the holdings of Warsh's wife, Jane Lauder, the granddaughter of cosmetics billionaire Estée Lauder, who sits on the board of The Estée Lauder Companies. Lauder has a personal net worth of $2 billion and owns more than a million in Class A stock in Estée Lauder, according to the filing. Warsh currently owns between $1 million and $5 million in UPS vested phantom stock and another $1 million and $5 million in vested restricted stock units, according to the filing. Six months after his confirmation, he will receive a cash payment equal to the value of the vested phantom stock, Warsh wrote. He will also resign his positions at the think tanks Group of 30 and the Hoover Institution, as well as a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Warsh previously served as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011. Before that, Warsh worked for Morgan Stanley from 1995 to 2002 and left the company as a vice president and executive director. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him as special assistant to the president for economic policy and executive secretary at the National Economic Council where he served until 2006 when the president nominated to the Fed. While Warsh's confirmation hearing is scheduled for next week, it could be some time before he takes over from current Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has vowed to block any of the president's Fed nominees until the Department of Justice's criminal probe of Powell is resolved. This will most likely lead to a 12-12 split vote on the narrowly divided banking committee, stopping the nomination from reaching the entire Senate for a vote. If confirmed, Warsh will make $253,100 a year, the salary of top-level political appointees such as cabinet secretaries and agency heads.
SpaceX fires up next-gen 'Version 3' Starship ahead of landmark May test flight (photos)
The new, juiced-up version of SpaceX's Starship megarocket just cleared a big hurdle on the path to its first-ever launch. That liftoff, targeted for early or mid-May, will be the 12th overall for Starship but the first for the vehicle's "Version 3," which is bigger and more powerful than its predecessors. On Tuesday evening (April 14), SpaceX announced that it had conducted a static-fire test with a Starship V3 upper stage, lighting its engines while the vehicle stayed anchored to the pad. "Full-duration static fire for the first time on Starship V3," the company wrote via X. The milestone came four weeks after the first static fire of a Starship V3 first stage, a trial that involved just 10 of the booster's 33 Raptor engines and ended early due to an issue with ground equipment. When stacked, Starship V3 stands 408.1 feet (124.4 meters) tall -- about 4 feet (1.2 m) taller than its immediate predecessor, the V2. The V3 is also much more powerful, thanks to its new V3 Raptor engines. This latest Starship variant can carry more than 100 tons to low Earth orbit, compared to about 35 tons for the V2, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has said. Starship has flown 11 suborbital test missions to date, most recently in October 2025. The five latest launches were performed by the V2. SpaceX is working to get the megarocket ready for astronaut missions to the moon; NASA selected Starship to be the first crewed lunar lander for its Artemis program. The agency's Artemis 2 mission just sent four astronauts around the moon and back to Earth. NASA is now gearing up for Artemis 3, which will test docking operations in Earth orbit between the agency's Orion capsule and one or both of Artemis' contracted moon landers -- Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon. Artemis 3 is targeted to launch in mid-2027. If all goes well with that mission, Artemis 4 will put astronauts down near the lunar south pole in late 2028, aboard either Starship or Blue Moon.
SpaceX IPO: What Everyday Investors Need to Know Before the Biggest Stock Offering in History
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. SpaceX is preparing for what could be the most consequential stock market event in a generation. In early April 2026, the company confidentially filed paperwork with the SEC for an IPO, with executives reportedly gearing up for roadshows in early June and a summer 2026 market debut. The numbers are staggering: SpaceX is seeking a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2 trillion, and if successful, would raise around $75 billion, dwarfing the current record held by Saudi Aramco's $25.6 billion offering. Prediction markets agree this is happening. Markets currently price a 90% probability of a SpaceX IPO by September 30, 2026, and a 93% probability by year-end. The window most traders are watching: roughly 45% odds of completion by June 30. SpaceX is going public on the strength of Starlink, not Starship. With over 8 million active users globally, the satellite internet division generates over half of SpaceX's estimated $15 to $18 billion in revenue It has matured from an expensive moonshot into a cash-generating utility. In February 2026, SpaceX also acquired Elon Musk's AI firm xAI, with the stated goal of building solar-powered datacenters in orbit. The immediate corporate focus is on orbital computing, defense technology, and NASA lunar support. Mars is not the pitch here. Foreign militaries rely on Starlink, and the U.S. government depends on Falcon 9 for defense and NASA missions. Investors buying SpaceX shares are buying into privatized global infrastructure, not speculative space exploration. You may already be buying SpaceX whether you intend to or not. Because of its sheer size, a publicly traded SpaceX will quickly be absorbed into major index funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. The Invesco QQQ Trust (NYSEARCA:QQQ) already holds $372.5 billion in net assets and tracks the Nasdaq-100. A SpaceX addition at its proposed scale would reshape fund composition meaningfully, similar to how Tesla currently sits at a 3.47% weight in QQQ. QQQ itself has returned 37.4% over the past year, trading at $632.62 as of April 14, 2026. On direct participation: rumors suggest SpaceX may offer up to 30% of the IPO allocation to retail investors, far above the typical 5% to 10%. That sounds generous. But mega-valuations are hard to sustain once the roadshow excitement fades and quarterly earnings scrutiny begins. The top 10 largest IPOs in history have dropped by an average of 12% in their first year. The macro environment is supportive but not euphoric. The VIX sits at 18.36, down sharply from 31.05 in late March. Markets have stabilized. The Fed Funds Rate holds at 3.75%, down from 4.5% a year ago. Conditions favor a large offering, but consumer sentiment remains subdued at 56.6 as of February 2026. The SpaceX IPO deserves serious attention. Approach it the way you would any transformative but richly priced asset: understand what you own, size your position accordingly, and let the index funds do the rest of the work.
Essex trains hit with CHAOS on major routes including London Liverpool Street
Travel chaos has ensued after overhead wire problems between Shenfield and Chelmsford blocked the line towards Colchester. The disruption has led to train services being cancelled, delayed, or revised, with no clear end in sight. The affected routes include Liverpool Street to Braintree, Colchester, Clacton, Ipswich, and Norwich. Network Rail staff are currently on-site attempting to solve the issue. Greater Anglia has advised customers to expect delays, short-notice changes, and cancellations. The Elizabeth Line is accepting Greater Anglia tickets for travel between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. Similarly, c2c services will accept Greater Anglia tickets between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central. For those travelling from London to Norwich, Greater Anglia has suggested using the Stansted Express from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport, then changing for services to Norwich. Alternatively, passengers can travel on Greater Anglia trains to Cambridge, then change for the first available train to Ely and then again at Ely for Norwich. This journey is estimated to take up to three hours. Travellers from London to Ipswich are advised to take the Greater Anglia train from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge and change there for services to Ipswich, with a similar journey time of up to three hours. Greater Anglia and Network Rail have apologised for any disruptions. Advance purchase ticket holders will be allowed to travel on earlier or later trains if their booked service is cancelled. Passengers delayed by 15 minutes or more may be eligible for compensation. For more information, visit greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/our-performance/delay-repay. Full-size bicycles, e-scooters, electric cycles, and folding electric cycles are not allowed on rail replacement buses or coaches. The exact cause of the wire problems has not been specified, but further updates are expected. Passengers can check the status of their next train and alternative options using Greater Anglia's live map. Network Rail has also provided a guide to common causes of delays and their efforts to reduce these.
Nuclear reactor developer X-Energy targets $7.5 billion valuation in US IPO
April 15 (Reuters) - Amazon-backed X-Energy said on Wednesday it was targeting a valuation of up to $7.51 billion in its initial public offering in the United States. The Maryland-based nuclear reactor developer is seeking up to $814.3 million by offering roughly 42.9 million shares priced between $16 and $19 apiece. J.P.Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, Moelis & Co, Cantor Fitzgerald, Guggenheim Securities, Nomura Securities and TD Securities are among the underwriters for the IPO. It will list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq under the symbol "XE". (Reporting by Pragyan Kalita in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)
OpenAI launches GPT 5.4-Cyber in response to Anthropic Glasswing
By becoming a member, I agree to receive information and promotional messages from Cyber Daily. I can opt out of these communications at any time. For more information, please visit our Privacy Statement. "We want to empower defenders by giving broad access to frontier capabilities, including models which have been tailor-made for cyber security," OpenAI said. "This is a version of GPT‑5.4 which lowers the refusal boundary for legitimate cyber security work and enables new capabilities for advanced defensive workflows, including binary reverse-engineering capabilities that enable security professionals to analyse compiled software for malware potential, vulnerabilities and security robustness without needing access to its source code. "Because this model is more permissive, we are starting with a limited, iterative deployment to vetted security vendors, organisations, and researchers. Access to permissive and cyber-capable models may come with limitations, especially around no-visibility uses like Zero-Data Retention (opens in a new window) (ZDR)." It added: "As model capabilities increase, defences need to scale alongside them. We've seen steady improvements in agentic coding, which have direct implications for cyber security, and we've adapted our approach in step. "We began cyber-specific safety training with GPT‑5.2, then expanded it with additional safeguards through GPT‑5.3‑Codex and GPT‑5.4, where we also classified the model as 'high' cyber capability under our Preparedness Framework." GPT-5.4-Cyber comes just as AI rival Anthropic launched Mythos as part of its Project Glasswing, which will see specifically chosen organisations allowed to use the new Claude Mythos Preview model.
Why is Anthropic's Mythos being called a threat to Bitcoin? - Cryptopolitan
Coinbase stock rose above 7% to $198, while Piper Sandler raised its price target to $180 and kept a neutral rating. Bitcoin lovers are getting pulled into Mythos (Anthropic's open-source cyber AI model), with the community obsessively talking about how AI might be the real Bitcoin killer. But hear us out; the issue is not really about the Bitcoin network breaking, it is actually about everything around it. Many people still push cold wallets over crypto exchanges, which instead hold the keys for you. And that tradeoff helped some of the first big crypto companies grow fast. So companies like Binance and Coinbase became the easy entry point. But oh, look! Here comes AI getting better at finding weak spots in software. Crypto companies brace for faster attacks as Mythos targets weak software The one part of the market that offers some comfort is the Bitcoin blockchain itself. It has operated without interruption since 2009, and it has never been hacked. So when traders say Mythos is a threat, they are talking about the companies built around Bitcoin. That includes exchanges, custodians, wallets, and other businesses that now sit alongside a much bigger crypto investment universe that also includes ETFs and crypto-linked stocks. Coinbase chief security officer Philip Martin said, "Mythos, and future models like it, will enable even deeper testing of software and systems at scale." He also said, "This will accelerate digital threats as well as digital defense." Philip added that Mythos is "a highly restricted model not available to the public," and said Coinbase is in close communication with Anthropic. By press time, COIN stock was trading at $198, up more than 7%. Not every company has the same access. Some large banks and tech companies, including Goldman Sachs, already got early access to Mythos, but crypto companies were not part of the first rollout. At Binance, chief security officer Jimmy Su said the exchange is relying on a mix of outside large language models, including earlier Anthropic systems, along with tools built inside the company to handle its security demands. Anthropic faces outages amid Coinbase and Bitcoin exposure The market reaction did not stop with the security talk. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around Anthropic stayed in the bullish zone, and message volume jumped into the extremely high range over the past day. There was also a new analyst call on Wednesday for Coinbase. Piper Sandler raised its price target on Coinbase to $180 from $150 and kept a Neutral rating ahead of the company's first-quarter earnings. The bank said it is somewhat cautious about difficult year-over-year comparisons for exchanges in the second quarter of 2026, though TheFly reported that a continuation of the Iran War could be a strong offset. At the same time, Anthropic was dealing with technical issues across its own products. On Wednesday, the company said it saw elevated error rates affecting its Claude chatbot, its API, and Claude Code, based on its status page. It began investigating the issue at 10:53 a.m. ET. At about 12:30 p.m. ET, the company said login success rates for the chatbot had stabilized and that it was working to "fully resolve this issue." By 1:50 p.m. ET, all systems were operational. On Downdetector, around 6,000 users reported issues with Claude, but fell to roughly 2,000 about 2 hours later, then to about 500 moments after. As you probably know, Anthropic was founded in 2021 by researchers and executives who left OpenAI, and Cryptopolitan reported yesterday that the company is now valued at $800 billion after new investment rounds post-Mythos. Anthropic is also fighting for enterprise market share against rivals, including Google and OpenAI, which reached an $850 billion valuation in its latest funding round in late March.
Essex trains hit with CHAOS on major routes including London Liverpool Street
Travel chaos has ensued after overhead wire problems between Shenfield and Chelmsford blocked the line towards Colchester. The disruption has led to train services being cancelled, delayed, or revised, with no clear end in sight. The affected routes include Liverpool Street to Braintree, Colchester, Clacton, Ipswich, and Norwich. Network Rail staff are currently on-site attempting to solve the issue. Greater Anglia has advised customers to expect delays, short-notice changes, and cancellations. The Elizabeth Line is accepting Greater Anglia tickets for travel between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. Similarly, c2c services will accept Greater Anglia tickets between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central. For those travelling from London to Norwich, Greater Anglia has suggested using the Stansted Express from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport, then changing for services to Norwich. Alternatively, passengers can travel on Greater Anglia trains to Cambridge, then change for the first available train to Ely and then again at Ely for Norwich. This journey is estimated to take up to three hours. Travellers from London to Ipswich are advised to take the Greater Anglia train from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge and change there for services to Ipswich, with a similar journey time of up to three hours. Greater Anglia and Network Rail have apologised for any disruptions. Advance purchase ticket holders will be allowed to travel on earlier or later trains if their booked service is cancelled. Passengers delayed by 15 minutes or more may be eligible for compensation. For more information, visit greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/our-performance/delay-repay. Full-size bicycles, e-scooters, electric cycles, and folding electric cycles are not allowed on rail replacement buses or coaches. The exact cause of the wire problems has not been specified, but further updates are expected. Passengers can check the status of their next train and alternative options using Greater Anglia's live map. Network Rail has also provided a guide to common causes of delays and their efforts to reduce these.
X-Energy files for 42.86M share IPO at $16-$19/sh By Investing.com
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X-Energy launches IPO roadshow seeking up to $814 million By Investing.com
X-Energy Inc. announced the launch of its initial public offering roadshow, seeking to raise capital through the sale of 42,857,143 shares of Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol XE. The nuclear reactor and fuel technology company set a price range of $16.00 to $19.00 per share for the offering. At the midpoint of the range, the IPO would raise approximately $729 million. X-Energy also plans to grant underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 6,428,571 additional shares, which could bring total proceeds to roughly $814 million if fully exercised. The company's Class A common stock has received approval for listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, subject to official notice of issuance. J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, and Moelis & Company are serving as lead joint book-running managers for the offering. The information is based on a company press release announcing the IPO roadshow launch.
World needs to 'get ready' for more powerful AI, Anthropic co-founder says
The company's powerful Mythos, unveiled earlier this month, won't be the only supercharged AI system to hit the market, Jack Clark said. Anthropic's groundbreaking new large language model, Mythos, won't be the last advanced -- and extremely powerful -- AI model to be created, Anthropic's co-founder said. Speaking on Monday at the Semafor World Economy, Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder and head of Public Benefit, discussed Project Glasswing's mission and how its central model, Mythos, was developed. Clark said the work to develop Mythos began with the realization that existing AI models have the potential to be trained to focus on cybersecurity operations and were headed toward cybersecurity-specific development. "What we saw made us realize: the next time we train a really big model, we should expect it to have these capabilities sort of inherent to it, rather than ones that we need to elicit," Clark said. Even in its early stages of development, Clark said Mythos surpassed every benchmark that researchers applied and could detect vulnerabilities in applications and operating systems. Despite this early capability coming from Anthropic, Clark said more Mythos-like models will emerge from other developers. "This is not a special model," he said. "There will be other systems just like this in a few months from other companies, and then a year to a year and a half later, there'll be open-weight models from China that have these capabilities. So the world is going to have to get ready for more powerful systems that are going to exist within it." Project Glasswing, which grants certain companies selective access to Mythos for further safety and capability testing, will help reveal more about the AI's capabilities, Clark added. Clark's comments come as the Pentagon and Anthropic remain locked in a legal dispute over the Defense Department labeling the company a supply chain risk following its decision to prevent the Pentagon from using its models for domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons.
