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Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, has filed for what could be the most significant tech IPO in years. The company reported sixteen point three billion dollars in first-half revenue, though it also posted a staggering eighty point seven billion dollar net loss. It aims to price its offering in mid-November, becoming the first pure-play AI company to trade publicly.
On the health and technology front, Moderna's CEO Stéphane Bancel is thinking far beyond melanoma after the company's personalized cancer vaccine cleared a pivotal Phase Three trial. Speaking in Madrid at the ESMO oncology conference, Bancel said Moderna and partner Merck are moving quickly toward FDA approval, with ambitions to apply the same mRNA platform to other cancers down the road.
And in cybersecurity, a vulnerability tracked as PHP2Shell has crossed a serious threshold. What began as exploratory probes has now become active exploitation, with attackers launching thirty-five working shells from just two IP addresses on October twenty-fourth. Security researchers are urging administrators to patch exposed systems immediately as the attack surface continues to widen.
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