Anthropic may raise its IPO share price after heavy investor demand, FT says

The Financial Times reports, citing sources, that bankers for Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI, are weighing a higher price for its stock market debut. The reason given is strong investor demand. A higher price could lift the valuation target to $1.5 trillion or more. Separately, CNBC reports that Anthropic has opened a retail offer in Australia, so individual investors there can buy Class A shares ahead of its planned Nasdaq listing.

TikTok owner ByteDance plans an AI assistant like Meta's Muse within weeks

Bloomberg reports, citing sources, that ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming said the company plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta's Muse in the coming weeks. The aim is to build on ByteDance's lead in AI video. He also said the company wants to reach the frontier of AI by 2029 to 2030.

Nvidia shares fall another 5.47% over CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged spy

CNBC reports that Nvidia's stock fell 5.47% on Tuesday, after dropping more than 4% on Monday. Investors are weighing the fallout from chief executive Jensen Huang's affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. A New York Times profile says she founded the company Megaspeed with a business partner, Kang Wei. Corporate governance experts told TechCrunch they have not seen anything like this situation before.

First tests of AMD's Zen 6 server chips show them up to 93% faster than Zen 5

Tom's Hardware published its first in-depth look at AMD's EPYC 'Venice' server processors. They use AMD's new Zen 6 design and are made on TSMC's N2P process. In its tests, a server with two EPYC 9996 chips was up to 93% faster than one with two Zen 5 EPYC 9965 chips. The EPYC 9686F often beat Nvidia's Vera processor. AMD executive Madhu Rangarajan said the chips were not built specifically for AI agents, a dig at Nvidia and Arm, but still called them the best CPU for that work. Chief Zen architect Mike Clark said AMD did not see agent computing coming.

AI coding tool Grok Build is leaking data from over 35,000 apps, researchers say

Researchers found that Grok Build, an AI tool from SpaceXSI that writes apps from plain-language requests, is leaking data from more than 35,000 apps through shareable links, Ars Technica reports. The exposed data includes proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets, some of it belonging to SpaceXSI itself.

Nintendo's new Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake sells 5.2 million copies in four days

Nintendo sold 5.2 million copies of its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in its first four days, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg says this gives the Switch 2 console the big hit it had been waiting for.

GTA 6 is the most pre-ordered game ever on PlayStation and Xbox stores

Sony and Microsoft both say Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most pre-ordered game ever on their online stores, but neither gave numbers. Sony opened PS5 pre-loading nine days before the 19 November launch. Market tracker Sensor Tower estimates 9.69 million digital console pre-orders worth about $942 million, with about 75% on PlayStation. Rockstar and its owner Take-Two have not confirmed any figures.

Microsoft's Auto SR game upscaler now works on Xbox Ally handhelds away from the dock

Microsoft is rolling out Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), its rival to Nvidia's DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20 and some Copilot Plus PCs. Upscaling means the game draws a smaller image and software enlarges it sharply. Testing began in April but only worked while docked. The full release works in handheld mode, on battery and with games at 1080p. A new Performance mode, coming through Windows updates, allows up to 120 frames per second.

Nvidia scandal makes US chip export limits more likely this year, Politico says

Politico reports, citing sources, that Jensen Huang's affair has significantly raised the chances that Congress passes chip export limits this year through the National Defense Authorization Act, the yearly US defence law. Separately, Reuters found records showing that China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has close ties to the Chinese army, bought Nvidia H200 AI chips last month despite being on a US export blacklist. The Financial Times says the scandal also exposes networks in Singapore that help Chinese firms get around export controls.

EU proposes a law to curb addictive app design and manipulative 'dark patterns'

The European Commission has introduced the Digital Fairness Act, Bloomberg reports. It aims to curb addictive design features and manipulative 'dark patterns', the tricks that push people into spending more time and money online. Companies that break it could face large fines.

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