Welcome back, Superhuman. We continue to see evidence that AI is growing cheaper and stronger, simultaneously. Take yesterday: OpenAI released a lower-cost GPT-6 variant at lunchtime. Before the day was up, the lab’s president unveiled three new scientific breakthroughs from an internal model.
Today: Anthropic shares its code review process, how to create a brand kit with Claude, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.
TODAY IN AI
Watch OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Terra, which excels at using the computer. Source: OpenAI.
1. OpenAI announces three scientific discoveries and a new model: The AI lab’s new scientific findings span math (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory), though all three still await independent verification. Separately, the lab rolled out GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, lower-cost alternative to its flagship GPT-6 Astra that excels in computer use. It’s available now on all paid plans in Work and Codex.
2. Microsoft offers buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees: The tech leader is extending voluntary buyouts to about a quarter of its workforce, with packages including tenure-based pay, continued stock vesting, and temporary healthcare. The announcement lands a few months after Microsoft disclosed $116B in fiscal 2026 spending, primarily going towards property and equipment for data centers. Employees reportedly have until early December to decide.
3. Anthropic engineer reveals the lab’s code review process: Anthropic has stated that Claude now writes about 90% of the code for Claude Code, with daily merges rising from 2,500 in May to over 30,000 in September. In a recent blog post that’s going viral, Anthropic engineer Addy Osmani and two colleagues broke down how they’ve adjusted their workflow to scale with that volume. The biggest shift: AI now handles the bulk of code reviews, freeing engineers to focus on the highest-risk changes.
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FROM THE FRONTIER
Anthropic just opened its books for the first time ever. Wall Street’s reaction could determine the industry’s future.
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For years, everything we knew about Anthropic’s finances came from leaks or rumors. The lab just filed its pre-IPO paperwork, revealing hard numbers for the first time just weeks ahead of potentially the biggest public listing ever.
Lifting the hood: Just how profitable are Claude, Cowork, and Code?
Fast growth: The filing confirmed that Anthropic brought in $16B in revenue for the first half of 2026, up 1,300% year over year. It also reported $131B in cash on hand, calming fears that it has been burning through funding.
Narrowing losses: The company’s operating loss shrank to $693M from $2B a year earlier. Its $81B net loss, which alarmed many at first, mostly stemmed from a $72B accounting adjustment — not the underlying business. It also has substantial bills coming due: roughly $800B in future compute agreements.
Lean and lucrative: For every employee, Anthropic generates $6.6M in trailing-twelve-month revenue.
A scaling masterclass: Anthropic may represent one of the most efficient business scale-ups in history, according to SemiAnalysis.
Nearly 100 pages of risks: Most S-1s warn about competition. Anthropic’s covers everything from authoritarian abuse of its models to AI spiraling out of control.
🌡 Temperature Check. Anthropic’s shares are expected to begin trading the week of November 16, when public investors will weigh in on its valuation for the first time. Their verdict — buy, sell, or hold — will likely shape sentiment across the AI sector.
📊 See Anthropic’s financials visualized in six charts.
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IN THE KNOW
What’s trending on socials & headlines today
Meme of the day
📹 Throwback Thursday: Firefox’s latest ad stars early-internet meme legends you probably forgot about, now all grown up. The company is pitching itself as the AI-optional browser and leaning on 2000s nostalgia to win back customers. With 4.6M views, it seems to be working.
📱 Back From The Dead: Do our phones really delete files? Maybe not. One viral post claims Claude Code found thousands of “deleted” photos in a hidden cache on their phone, including screenshots from years ago (2.5M views).
👀 Tracking Tech: Purdue researchers built an autonomous drone that can follow running humans using on-device AI. The demo suggests it’ll be used for search & rescue missions, but many are skeptical — pointing out that lost people don’t run away (2.4M views).
📝 AI Glossary: Don’t be the person who mixes up “open weight” and “open source” models on a team call. CNET just published a list of 65 AI terms to know that’s worth a bookmark.
🪙 Steal My Bitcoin: The co-founder of Hacker House ran an experiment to see if the PHP exploit crisis is overhyped. The results were a mixed bag: the experiment ended within 24 hours, but was still incredibly complex to carry out (2.7M views).
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