Anthropic revenue, FTC subpoenas, METR access - October 16, 2026
Anthropic reports $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue as the FTC subpoenas it and OpenAI, METR gets employee-level access, and Meta ships an open model for Macs.
(0:00) - Intro
(0:26) - Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO - source
(1:22) - FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures - source
(2:13) - Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access - source
(3:01) - Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs - source
(3:37) - Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers' autonomous…
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