Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported U.S. announced corporate layoffs in September hit their lowest September level since 2022.

Anthropic's IPO filing shows Broadcom agreed to provide up to $42bn in loans to finance infrastructure spending, covering compute supply, equipment leases and related financing. Anthropic could become Broadcom's largest customer for its core chip-design business next year, a spending pattern that has drawn scrutiny from Wall Street AI skeptics. Under the arrangement Broadcom may designate a financing partner and the debt instruments could convert into Anthropic equity. Anthropic disclosed Broadcom's dual role as hardware supplier and financier poses a "potential conflict of interest" that could affect Anthropic's access to compute.

The New York Times, citing government officials, reports the US Federal Trade Commission is intensifying a broad probe of ANTHROPIC, OpenAI and other firms developing superintelligent AI models to assess potential consumer risks. The agency plans to issue compulsory information demands akin to subpoenas to secure documents and data. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson opened the inquiry prior to the Hugging Face incident. The investigation is focused on possible violations of the FTC Act’s prohibition on unfair or deceptive acts or practices and will seek related records from the companies.