Wednesday, 11 November 2026

Models & Labs

Anthropic adds spreadsheets, whiteboards and partner connectors to Claude

Anthropic is adding Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Interactive Connectors to its Claude app. The connectors let partners like Adobe, Atlassian and Salesforce embed their apps into Claude. Anthropic also says Claude Meetings, which can join calls and take notes, is launching soon.

NoteEnterprise customers get audit logs, isolated virtual machines and a compliance API, which is the part a bank's risk team would check first.

Source: The Decoder·Share

★Top story: Deals

Each Anthropic co-founder would sell just shy of $250 million in the IPO

Anthropic disclosed in its new S-1 filing that each of its seven co-founders will sell 3,378,378 shares. At the midrange of $74, each founder would take in just shy of $250 million. Collectively, the founders will control 51.1% of the votes.

NoteThe control figure is the one to read: the founders will control 51.1% of the votes, and each also receives Class F stock with supervoting rights.

Source: TechCrunch·Share

Deals

Mercor says it is now a $20 billion company

AI training platform Mercor says it is now a $20 billion company after a $750 million Series D funding round. The company plans to use the financing to help train and test AI agents.

$20Bvaluation Mercor says it has reached

NoteThe CEO also said Mercor spends three times as much on inference as on employee salaries, a sign of how much model use now costs a company that trains models.

Source: PYMNTS·Share

Rules & Regulators

New York opened a registration portal for its RAISE Act

New York opened a registration portal for its RAISE Act on Tuesday. Large frontier AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI will be required to register by January 1, 2027, and have to publish safety frameworks and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours.

NoteThe duties fall on large frontier developers, and the safety frameworks and transparency reports they have to publish are the parts a bank could read when it uses their models.

Source: TechCrunch·Share

★Top story: Deals

Estimated IPO price range is $70 to $78 per share

Anthropic said in an updated filing that it will offer 825 million shares at a price range between $70 and $78 per share. TechCrunch says the company could be worth $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the range, on a fully diluted basis.

NoteThe price range is the number to watch, and the company's filing sets it. The $1.404 trillion figure assumes the shares list at the top of that range.

Sources: CNBC, TechCrunch·Share

Models & Labs

Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers and consumers

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers, and calls it its strongest model. Google says Carbon ranks #1 on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity’s WANDR and Zapier’s AutomationBench at more than 2X lower cost per task than the next best external model. In the API it costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon.

NoteFor banks and payment firms, the API price is the number to watch. The cost-per-task gap is Google's own benchmark claim.

Source: Google DeepMind·Share