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ADB Targets $5 Billion for ASEAN AI and Digital Economy, Completing $30 Billion PledgeThousands March in Edinburgh Demanding Consultation on Scotland's 23 Data Centre PlansBlumenthal Says Lutnick Must Go as Megaspeed Chip Scandal Reaches Commerce DepartmentHamdan bin Rashid Foundation and ATRC Sign Deal on AI Tools for Gifted StudentsSouth Australian Liberal Andrew McLachlan Rejects Trading Copyright for AI InvestmentAT&T Runs Nearly 500 AI Agent Workflows in Production, Plans to Triple Them Next YearSaudi Arabia Ranks Third in Developing Leading AI Models, SDAIA SaysAmodei Calls Compute Anthropic's 'Deepest Business Dilemma' Ahead of $64.4 Billion IPO

Daily Briefing

Sunday, 15 November 2026

8 stories published on this day, grouped by section.

The day in brief

  • Amodei Calls Compute Anthropic's 'Deepest Business Dilemma' Ahead of $64.4 Billion IPO: With nearly $901 billion committed, mostly to compute and chips, Anthropic's chief executive told Jamie Dimon the listing is meant to widen the company's margin for error.
  • Saudi Arabia Ranks Third in Developing Leading AI Models, SDAIA Says: The authority counts eight Saudi large language models by 2025, five of them world-leading, and says the kingdom is preparing for AGI without tying its plans to a date.
  • AT&T Runs Nearly 500 AI Agent Workflows in Production, Plans to Triple Them Next Year: The telecom group processes about 45 billion tokens a day and says production AI investments return five times their cost within a year, a claim not independently verified.
  • South Australian Liberal Andrew McLachlan Rejects Trading Copyright for AI Investment: McLachlan lends weight to a possible constitutional challenge to AI scraping of copyrighted work and says data centres must not override the environment, ahead of Labor's AI package.
  • Hamdan bin Rashid Foundation and ATRC Sign Deal on AI Tools for Gifted Students: The agreement, signed at ADNEC Centre Al Ain, covers the Hamdan Talent Scale, AI-based assessment tools and joint research.

AI

  1. Saudi Arabia Ranks Third in Developing Leading AI Models, SDAIA Says

    The authority counts eight Saudi large language models by 2025, five of them world-leading, and says the kingdom is preparing for AGI without tying its plans to a date.

  2. AT&T Runs Nearly 500 AI Agent Workflows in Production, Plans to Triple Them Next Year

    The telecom group processes about 45 billion tokens a day and says production AI investments return five times their cost within a year, a claim not independently verified.

  3. Hamdan bin Rashid Foundation and ATRC Sign Deal on AI Tools for Gifted Students

    The agreement, signed at ADNEC Centre Al Ain, covers the Hamdan Talent Scale, AI-based assessment tools and joint research. No budget or timeline was disclosed.

Companies

  1. Amodei Calls Compute Anthropic's 'Deepest Business Dilemma' Ahead of $64.4 Billion IPO

    With nearly $901 billion committed, mostly to compute and chips, Anthropic's chief executive told Jamie Dimon the listing is meant to widen the company's margin for error.

Policy

  1. South Australian Liberal Andrew McLachlan Rejects Trading Copyright for AI Investment

    McLachlan lends weight to a possible constitutional challenge to AI scraping of copyrighted work and says data centres must not override the environment, ahead of Labor's AI package.

  2. Blumenthal Says Lutnick Must Go as Megaspeed Chip Scandal Reaches Commerce Department

    The senator accuses the Commerce Secretary of shielding Nvidia, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Commerce held back on blacklisting Singapore-based Megaspeed, the chip buyer run by Alice Huang.

  3. Thousands March in Edinburgh Demanding Consultation on Scotland's 23 Data Centre Plans

    Friends of the Earth Scotland says the proposals would add 9.1GW to peak demand; ministers have offered only new planning guidance before the end of the year.

  4. ADB Targets $5 Billion for ASEAN AI and Digital Economy, Completing $30 Billion Pledge

    Masato Kanda unveiled the platform in Manila alongside an $8 billion rivers initiative; both figures are targets for public and private financing by 2030, not new ADB loans.

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