AI News for November 8, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic targets a pre-Thanksgiving listing, with annualized revenue near $81B: Anthropic wants to list before Thanksgiving and raise $80-100B at a $1.25T-$1.75T valuation, above its current $965B but short of the $2T some investors hoped for.
[NEWS] OpenAI receives its first $11B tranche as Coatue, SoftBank and a UAE consortium join: OpenAI received about $11 billion on Friday, Bloomberg reports.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic details how 'dreaming' gives Claude better agent memory: Anthropic published research on the components of agent memory, focusing on "dreaming": offline review of agent logs to fix mistakes, write notes and build memory representations like wikis.
[NEWS] US approved an Nvidia H200 buyer in China whose office is an empty shell: New Matrix, a Chinese firm the Commerce Department cleared to buy Nvidia's H200 chips, appears to barely exist.
[NEWS] Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files: Security firm Apiiro found passwords exposed in 1,122 public GitHub files tied to Claude Code's "Don't ask again" permission option.
[NEWS] Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group ends after merger into Microsoft AI: Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers, a ~50-person lab created in 2023, is over.
[RESEARCH] Nous Research strips Chinese propaganda from Qwen with Arete-27B: Nous Research released Arete-27B, an open-weight fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B with Chinese state propaganda removed.
[NEWS] AI safety advocates make gains after $110M midterm fight: Candidates who favor stricter AI oversight won key congressional races in the midterms.
[RESEARCH] Open model DeepSeek V4.1 Flash nears GPT-6 Sol at hacking corporate networks: Vals AI's CyberOffense benchmark drops agents into simulated corporate networks with only a public web address and no human help.
[NEWS] Meta's former CFO Dave Wehner leaves to become CFO of Fireworks AI: Dave Wehner, Meta's chief strategy officer and its CFO from 2014 to 2022, is leaving to become CFO of Fireworks, an inference and training platform for open models.

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