Anthropic said on Sunday that it wants to create a new LLC to fund public-interest initiatives.
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Anthropic said it wants to create a new LLC with the company's stock as its sole asset.
The new LLC, a charitable organization, would receive larger stakes as the company grows.
An initial 5% stock funding is "subject to stockholder approval," Anthropic said.
Anthropic said on Sunday that it would set aside large portions of its wealth to support initiatives it believes are in the public interest.
In a blog post, the AI colossus said it aims to establish a separate LLC that would use Anthropic shares to make donations to nonprofits or "direct distributions to specific populations."
The new LLC, called the "Anthropic Public Benefit Fund," would receive larger stakes as the company grows. The company said an initial funding round of 5% of Anthropic's shares is still subject to stockholder approval.
"The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways," the company said.
A 5% stake in Anthropic is worth about $48 billion, according to the company's most recent valuation in May.
In 2025, rival frontier AI company OpenAI established a similar nonprofit foundation with a multibillion-dollar stake in the company to fund public-benefit initiatives.
Capt Smit Machchhar said he screamed for help as he reached to open the cockpit door on flight FZ1073
The captain of a flydubai flight who was attacked by a co-pilot who intended to crash the plane has described blocking axe blows to his head and screaming for help as he reached to open the cockpit door.
Capt Smit Machchhar has been hailed as a hero for his role in averting disaster on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last month, helping to thwart what the UAE attorney general has said was an attempted suicide attack by the co-pilot who had intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion airport.
AI companies have already scraped much of the web. Now they're chasing something even more valuable: data that shows how humans actually work.
That's the focus of Business Insider's new series, The AI Data Grab. This week, we published three stories showing how the race for workplace data is accelerating.
One piece, from Charles Rollet, Tom Carter, and Stephen Council, examines the booming market for company records. AI firms are offering businesses six- and even seven-figure sums for anonymized Slack messages, emails, presentations, and internal documents.
The goal is to teach AI systems how people solve problems, collaborate, make decisions, and complete long, multi-step tasks. Those real-world workflows are becoming the fuel for the next generation of AI agents.
Together, these stories point to a major shift in AI development. The first wave of generative AI was mostly about bigger models and faster chips. The next chapter is about machines understanding how work gets done, so AI can help us do it better and quicker.
Cabinet ministers are turning on Ed Miliband, accusing him of blocking AI investment to protect Net Zero – while families pay the price in lost jobs and holidays.
I'm a lawyer who decided to work in AI to try to get ahead of this technological curve.
Over the last two years, I've struggled to keep up because AI is advancing faster than I expected.
I feel overwhelmed and burned out by the constant conversations around AI.
For most of my career, I was a lawyer. There was something reassuring about how expertise worked in law. The longer I practiced, the more I knew.
But after years in a demanding profession, I burned out. It wasn't that I stopped enjoying law. I just needed a change.
Around two years ago, I started shifting my career toward AI because I thought it was the future. I didn't want to wake up 10 years later and realize technology had changed my profession without me.
It seemed like the smartest career move I could make. Now, I'm not so sure.
Joining the AI boom early seemed like the perfect career move
I made the transition while the AI boom was still gaining momentum. Ironically, I landed a job at a legal tech company thanks to a conversation with ChatGPT. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to combine my experience with my growing interest in tech.
My role involved testing the most advanced models, comparing their capabilities, and exploring how they could be used in legal work. I felt like I was ahead of a major change rather than trying to catch up with it.
I also became the go-to person for anything AI-related among my family and friends. People would ask me which tools to use, whether AI would replace their jobs, or what I thought about the latest developments. I enjoyed being the person who seemed to understand something that everyone was suddenly talking about.
But that feeling didn't last as long as I expected. Slowly, I began to realize that this wasn't just another new technology. It was something evolving at an almost frightening pace. And being close to it didn't necessarily mean being able to keep up with it.
What initially felt like an advantage was gradually becoming a source of pressure.
Things that took me weeks to learn or build became obsolete almost overnight
New frontier AI models and companies seemed to arrive every few weeks, each promising capabilities that the previous lacked. Just as I began understanding one model, another would appear, forcing me to reconsider everything I thought I knew about what AI could and couldn't do. There was barely enough time to breathe before "the next big thing" came.
What frustrated me most was how quickly my own work could lose its value. I spent weeks developing solutions to problems that a newer model could suddenly solve within a few minutes. Things I had carefully learned a couple of months earlier became unnecessary after a single product announcement. It was strange to put so much effort into something only to discover that the technology had already overtaken me.
And the constant learning didn't stop when I finished work. AI was everywhere. It was in the news, on social media, in conversations with friends, and in almost every discussion about the future of work. Sometimes, after spending an entire day testing models, the last thing I wanted to hear about was another breakthrough.
Yet I still felt an obligation to read about it, afraid that missing a single development could leave me even further behind. I was getting tired.
Accepting uncertainty became the only way forward
For years, I had measured my professional progress by how much I knew and how confident I felt about my abilities. AI challenged that completely. I began to question whether being good at my job meant knowing the latest developments or simply knowing how to adapt as everything changed. It was uncomfortable to accept that experience and hard work might not always provide the certainty I was used to.
I also started questioning how much of my personal time I was willing to sacrifice to stay relevant. I didn't want every conversation, evening, or weekend to become another opportunity to learn or talk about AI. I began making a conscious effort to disconnect after work, even if that meant missing an announcement or falling behind on the latest developments. For the first time, I was choosing not to know everything.
I don't regret moving into AI, but I no longer feel as certain about the decision as I once did. The technology isn't going to slow down. All I know for sure is that we are living through one of the most important inflection points in recent history, and perhaps that's what makes it all so overwhelming.
El catedrático Emiliano López dijo que los países del sur global sólo podrán alcanzar un desarrollo soberano si superan las relaciones de dependencia y contribuyen a construir un orden internacional no hegemónico.
Torani CEO Melanie Dulbecco has been in the role for 35 years.
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Melanie Dulbecco has been CEO of the syrup company Torani for 35 years.
Dulbecco said layoffs are a choice, and that Torani's decision not to do them has helped with retention.
She said that the company is hiring fewer people than it would be if Torani didn't use automation.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Melanie Dulbecco, the CEO of syrup brand Torani. She's based in San Leandro, California, where the company is headquartered. This story has been edited for length and clarity.
I may sound different than most CEOs.
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood, and my parents divorced when I was really young. When I was little, I saw my mom struggle so much, and I noticed that some kids around me didn't have the same opportunities.
I felt this sense of inequity, and that became a motivating and driving force for me. I tried working in politics, then nonprofits, and eventually went into business. I wanted to build an opportunity company. When I met the family from Torani, they liked that idea.
I was the ninth hire at Torani in 1991 and became the first CEO in 1995. We now have over 500 employees.
When I started, we made $700,000 a year in annual revenue. We've grown 20% a year on average, and this year, we plan to hit over $800 million in revenue.
But to us, growth is not a financial endeavor. The trailing indicator of success may be the financials, but we think our work together creates the momentum and value in the marketplace that drives our growth.
It's very easy for us to say layoffs are not our approach. I think layoffs are a choice. I get it if a company is going through bankruptcy and has to make extremely challenging choices. Otherwise, I think it's a financial exercise that doesn't consider how you're going to be resilient or regain momentum — because you do that with a team.
Our workers aren't concerned about being replaced by AI
Torani is currently hiring fewer people than it would be if the company didn't use automation. We use automation to deprioritize manual, rote jobs with limited career mobility. We also use AI for consumer and market research, sales forecasting, and demand planning.
However, our team doesn't get worried about things like AI because they trust that we will both automate and elevate the work, that we will never do anything that squashes opportunities for people, and that we are looking out for everybody's success.
We're often in hyper-growth mode, which means we need people to know how to work together. The ability to work together, to collaborate, to address challenges, to be resilient in tough times, is critical. This strategy has also helped with retention.
We were faced with a choice during the pandemic
We had been planning a move to our new location in San Leandro in March 2020. That happened to coincide with the stay-at-home order. It was one of those moments where, as a leader, you feel like you have to breathe into a paper bag.
We had borrowed a lot of money from the bank to build our new flavor factory. The loans were going to start coming due in April, so the executive team came together to look at what we needed to do to be OK.
Before we did that, though, we asked: What will make us proud when we get to the other side of this? We had a long discussion about it and decided that making it as one team — without any layoffs or furloughs — would make us proud.
So we we scaled back marketing and advertising expenses and paused all company travel. All departments had to review their budgets. They got scrappy to identify and eliminate non-essential costs.
During the early months of the pandemic, Torani prepared for a 50% decline in sales. Thankfully, there was only a 20% decline in April of 2020, and revenue was back up in May. We quickly pivoted to online retail and grocery to fill the gaps left by cafés and drink shops closing their doors. Torani ended 2020 with a 15% year-over-year revenue increase.
We moved to our new location in six months instead of six weeks, but we got there. We couldn't have done that if we laid off our team. We needed to come together at that moment.
Less than an hour away, at the Louisiana Delta Community College's West Monroe campus, the next generation of data center professionals is hoping to join their ranks.
"I see AI is really the future. We're going to need data centers to house all the data," Eric Crowe Jr., 27, told Business Insider. "I feel like it will become a very lucrative job to have, and we're going to need more of them. Why not get in now before it gets oversaturated?"
Crowe Jr. is among the students who signed up for the community college's Data Center Technician program. The four-week, nearly $3,700 training course prepares students to enter the data center industry, which is rapidly expanding to support the age of AI.
Construction for Meta's nearly 10-million-square-foot data center, Hyperion, is underway in rural Richland Parish, where business is now thriving as workers flood the region.
Meta says the project will include over 7,500 trade workers on-site at peak construction and support 1,000 operational jobs once completed. For residents living in the region, where there's no state minimum wage law and agriculture is a major industry, the new opportunity to make good money in a growing sector is too enticing to ignore.
"This is a stepping stone into the real world,"Dan McCarty, director of Workforce Trades at Louisiana Delta Community College, said. "We prepare you with a résumé. We work on every aspect of employability, safety, and technical skills."
The inaugural class graduated in March, and all 11 students received job offers from IES Communications, which employs people working on Meta's project. McCarty said the program, which is available at the Winnsboro campus, now produces about 24 graduates a month.
In the past, a lot of people, including myself, had to leave here to find the good jobs," McCarty said. "Now they're 30 minutes down the road."
'It's a no-brainer'
Louisiana Delta Community College's program lasts four weeks.
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The Data Center Technician program teaches students everything from operating equipment to workplace safety. They'll also have the opportunity to earn several certificates. During a class this September, nine students huddled around Fletch Batchelor, an instructor specializing in broadband, as he explained how to splice fiber optic cables.
"Do you know why squirrels chew through cable? They like a high fiber diet," Batchelor said, earning some chuckles.
The program encourages students to take a hands-on approach, which Trey Wadley, 30, said he appreciates. During the class, he participated in a live cable splicing demonstration. Wadley, who's interested in cybersecurity and has a background in the automotive industry, learned about the program while scrolling on Facebook, which, incidentally, is owned by Meta.
"As I learned more about Meta and data centers, they piqued my interest," he said. "I said, 'Okay, this might be something that fits me and that I'm into. I decided to give it a try."
Wadley, who recently welcomed a baby girl, wants to find work with Meta's project so he can work locally. Without Meta's project, Wadley said he'd likely have gone looking for job opportunities in Texas.
Trey Wadley and Fletch Batchelor examine fiber optic cables during the Data Center Technician program.
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The push from tech companies and the US government to build out the nation's AI infrastructure has made data center jobs a valuable new path to lucrative employment. Business Insider reported in August that the median pay for data-center facility managers was $134,000, which is 64% higher than that of other facilities managers. The median pay for project managers at data center facilities was $115,000, a 12% increase over similar roles at other facilities.
Wadley said he's hoping to secure a position paying between $25 and $30 an hour. So is Crowe Jr., who previously handled packages and drove for FedEx, where he was averaging $14 an hour.
"Here, I could make about $25 to $30 per hour. It's a no-brainer for lots of people to pivot," Crowe Jr.,who has an interest in cybersecurity,said.
McCarty said entry-level positions could earn as much as $24 an hour, but students who've graduated told him they reached $27 to $28 an hour within six months.
Booked and busy
Residents in Richland Parish, like other communities in the United States, have mixed feelings about the data center. While some say it will bring new jobs and boost the local economy, others are concerned about environmental impacts and disruptions to their daily lives.
It's a reality not lost on Crowe Jr. and Wadley, but they said it's unlikely that AI will simply go away.
"I think we should focus more on solutions to how we can coexist with it," Wadley said.
Students attending the technician class in September also spent time in a mock data center on campus, where they could apply skills they'd learned in class in a real-world setting.
Students gain hands-on experience while learning at Louisiana Delta Community College.
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While they tinkered with the equipment, John Bradley, a broadband workforce development instructor, said having access to a similar program as a teen would have been invaluable.
"I chose an alternative route, which was in construction and oil fields, but if I'd have had something like this that would've guaranteed me a good job, good money from the get go, and I could travel if I wanted to, I would've loved that," he said.
Bradley said the program prepares its graduates to be hired by contractors specifically working with Meta.
"We have a special email that we give to different contractors we spoke with that are waiting for them to graduate our class," Bradley said.
However, working at Meta isn't a requirement of participating in the program. Bradley said the skills students learn during the course are transferable, especially as data centers and similar construction jobs become more popular.
"It doesn't have to be a Meta data center. You may decide, 'Hey, I don't want to work in data centers anymore.' You still got banks, you still got IT departments," Bradley said. "You can literally go to work anywhere you want and use the same trades you learned here."
McCarty said the program has a backlog of students trying to get into the course, so they're hoping to expand their offerings.
"We've got some that are fresh outta high school, but we've had students up to 60 years old," he said. "It doesn't really matter what age you decide to get into this trade. Anyone is welcome to come in and learn it."
La seconda metà di ottobre 2026 porta con sé alcuni appuntamenti fiscali da tenere sotto controllo, soprattutto per le imprese e per i contribuenti che devono correggere la dichiarazione dei redditi già presentata. Per organizzare correttamente gli adempimenti, però, è importante tenere conto delle scadenze che coincidono con la domenica (e che ovviamente slittano).
20 ottobre 2026, comunicazione del canone Tv da parte delle imprese elettriche
Il primo appuntamento da ricordare è quello di martedì 20 ottobre 2026 e riguarda le imprese elettriche che devono trasmettere all’Agenzia delle Entrate i dati relativi al canone Tv addebitato, accreditato, riscosso e riversato nel mese di settembre. Si tratta di una scadenza di natura prevalentemente amministrativa, che non comporta versamenti diretti da parte dei cittadini ma riguarda specificamente le società di fornitura dell’energia elettrica.
La comunicazione:
comprende le informazioni sulle somme addebitate o accreditate nelle bollette, su quelle effettivamente incassate dai clienti e sui successivi riversamenti allo Stato;
ha carattere informativo, serve cioè all’amministrazione finanziaria per monitorare la corretta gestione del canone.
L’invio deve essere effettuato esclusivamente in modalità telematica, utilizzando i servizi Entratel o Fisconline dell’AdE. Le imprese possono procedere direttamente oppure affidare la trasmissione a un intermediario abilitato, nel rispetto delle procedure previste.
25 ottobre 2026, slitta l’invio degli elenchi Intrastat
Un altro appuntamento riguarda gli elenchiIntrastat, che devono essere presentati entro lunedì 26 ottobre 2026 per le operazioni intracomunitarie. Il termine ordinario del 25 ottobre cade di domenica nel 2026. Per questo motivo, la scadenza viene spostata al primo giorno lavorativo successivo.
L’adempimento:
riguarda gli operatori economici tenuti a trasmettere i dati relativi agli scambi di beni e, nei casi previsti, alle prestazioni di servizi effettuate con soggetti appartenenti ad altri Stati membri dell’Unione europea;
consente di raccogliere informazioni utili sia ai fini statistici sia per gli adempimenti connessi all’Iva negli scambi intracomunitari.
Nel mese ottobre, sono tenuti all’invio gli operatori:
obbligati alla presentazione mensile degli elenchi, chiamati a comunicare i dati relativi a settembre 2026;
che presentano gli elenchi con periodicità trimestrale, tenuti a trasmettere le informazioni riferite al terzo trimestre del 2026, cioè ai mesi di luglio, agosto e settembre.
26 ottobre 2026, ultimo giorno per presentare il modello 730 integrativo
Lunedì 26 ottobre 2026 è anche il termine per presentare il modello 730 integrativo relativo alla dichiarazione dei redditi 2026, riferita al periodo d’imposta 2025.
Questo adempimento, tuttavia:
interessa solo i contribuenti che hanno già presentato il modello 730 e che, successivamente, hanno riscontrato errori od omissioni correggibili attraverso una dichiarazione integrativa;
può essere utilizzato, nei casi previsti, quando la correzione determina un maggiore credito o un minor debito d’imposta per il contribuente, oppure quando l’errore non incide sulla determinazione dell’imposta.
Non è invece lo strumento da utilizzare se la correzione comporta un risultato fiscale diverso in senso sfavorevole al contribuente. In questo caso, infatti, occorre valutare la procedura dichiarativa appropriata.
La presentazione deve essere effettuata rivolgendosi a un Caf o a un professionista abilitato. Questo vale anche quando il contribuente si era avvalso inizialmente dell’assistenza fiscale del proprio sostituto d’imposta.
A recent breakthrough in airborne drone control has offered a tangible glimpse into the future of US air combat, signaling the US Air Force’s accelerating push to integrate autonomous wingmen alongside frontline fighters. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that a US Air Force F-22 Raptor pilot successfully controlled an uncrewed YFQ-44A Fury fighter […]
Perhaps the best part of the Festival of Lights is not what we bring home but what we send to another’s home. Here are initiatives by voluntary groups that offer an opportunity to do that in this month of giving. These NGOs are working on getting ready “happiness kits”, each containing a new dress, a sweet box and a cracker pack, for economically disadvantaged children
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