Anthropic plans to list on Nasdaq at a potential $2 trillion valuation, reporting profitability for a second consecutive quarter with adjusted metrics. Quarterly revenue surged 14-fold to $11.5 billion, while CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development, backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Anthropic reported that Houthi operators in Yemen used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software, running parallel instances to design guidance systems, simulate trajectories, and analyze a failed rocket test. The activity represents one of the clearest examples of generative AI being applied to conventional weapons development, though Anthropic found no evidence the group succeeded in fielding an operational weapon.
Anthropic reported coordinated distillation attacks by China-based AI companies Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek targeting Claude's capabilities. The company observed nearly 200 million exchanges across five campaigns designed to extract chain-of-thought reasoning to train competing models, with Alibaba's effort accounting for 151 million exchanges between May and July 2026.
Shopify announced in September 2026 that it is migrating from React Native back to native development with Swift and Kotlin. The company, which adopted React Native in 2020 to streamline cross-platform mobile development, reconsidered this decision after advances in large language models (LLMs) reduced the traditional cost advantage of code sharing, making native development more viable.