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Anthropic may get a junk credit rating despite its mega-IPO. Blackstone has warned investors that Anthropic is likely to receive a below-investment-grade credit rating, in the double-B range, after its planned IPO. That reverses earlier expectations for investment grade. The downgrade risk complicates Anthropic's plans to borrow cheaply for AI infrastructure buildout. An investment-grade rating would unlock lower borrowing costs for projects like Project North Star, the company's $63B chip financing deal where Blackstone is an anchor investor. Anthropic reportedly holds over $112B in cash and equivalents, with investors expecting the IPO could raise ~$100B. But a junk rating means bond market access comes at a premium, if it comes at all. https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

"I literally got crack smoke blown in my face." @MartyBent on anarcho-tyranny in New York City.

Tether reports ~$1.5B in net operating profit for Q3 2026. USDT in circulation: ~183.5B. Excess reserves nearly doubled to $7.95B from $4.1B at the end of Q2.

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is working in orbit. Engineers sent a command up, booted the TPU, ran a prompt, and got a full response back on earth. The first output: a haiku.

"You can just opt out. You don't have to ask for permission to adopt a better money." @MartyBent on Bitcoin as the exit from broken money.

The Digital Chamber is asking Congress to pass a targeted bill before the 119th Congress ends: customer asset protections, CFTC oversight of U.S. exchanges, and baseline cybersecurity standards. Its letter cites the $6.3 billion Binance theft. https://digitalchamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Congressional-Letter-on-Consumer-Protection-10.30.26.pdf

Ten tech names are now in a bear market, and Intel and Western Digital sit at -54% each.

Columbia engineers built a living knee replacement and it just passed a simulated walk. The 3D-printed implant was placed in a cadaver knee and attached to robotic machinery. It withstood hundreds of pounds of force, similar to an adult striding briskly, with no cracks or malfunctions, according to the Washington Post. The design uses a biodegradable scaffold seeded with cartilage and bone cells. The scaffold supports the joint while the cells grow new tissue. It is meant to dissolve over time, leaving living cartilage and bone behind. Preliminary human testing could start in about 18 months if the research goes well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/10/15/scientists-may-have-key-treating-arthritis-regrowing-knee/

Binance CEO Richard Teng confirms attackers used Ethereum's EIP-7702 delegation mechanism to gain execution authority over a Binance hot wallet. The exploit bypassed the exchange's normal transaction controls.

Indirect bidders took 45.7% of Monday's $69B 2-year auction, the lowest share in 18 two-year auctions going back to May 2025. Your AI can pull this straight from the TFTC MCP. No burning tokens scraping Treasury PDFs.

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"This film was funded primarily through Bitcoin." Mike Werry on why Broken Country was funded with bitcoin.

"To raise a family in 500 square feet, it's an impossibility." Broken Country Film director Mira Metter on Canada's housing crisis.

Higgsfield promised to open source its product and never did. ComfyUI's community built open source alternatives anyway. Now Higgsfield sent a cease and desist demanding the challenge be taken down within 48 hours. ComfyUI CEO: "When we started Comfy, we made the community a promise. Our product stays open, free, and yours. We've kept it every day since, and one letter isn't going to change that."

Binance's SAFU fund holds about 15,000 BTC, worth roughly $1 billion. The fund exists to cover eligible security-related losses for users.

"People will become, begin to hunt, live and fish in city parks." Broken Country Film director Mira Metter on Canada's own 2040 forecast.

"Now Americans make $77,000 or so on average. Canadians still make $53,000 on average." @MartyBent and (mjwerry) on Canada's GDP per capita.

"It's important to distinguish that it's not free. Health care, like, there is no free lunch, right?" Broken Country Film director Mira Metter on Canada's health care.

Sam Altman on local inference: "from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time."

The Washington Post, like the WSJ, is now sounding the alarm on Brazil's authoritarianism. The point, Glenn Greenwald says, isn't that Bolsonaro is innocent. It's that Judge Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant who persecutes political enemies with no limits. The Post editorial is titled "When judges become prosecutors." It says Brazil's pursuit of the Bolsonaro family raises "troubling rule-of-law questions." Its example: Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami on Wednesday, three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff, because he feared imminent arrest. The Post calls that an indictment of the Western Hemisphere's second-largest democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/28/brazils-treatment-bolsonaro-undermines-rule-of-law-confidence/