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All eyes are on Anthropic this week as the AI company officially unveiled its much-rumoured IPO filing.

The filing represents a crucial step on the company’s path to going public, which – should it happen – could unseat SpaceX as the most valuable stock in the world, with recent estimates suggesting it might be worth of $1.5 trillion.

Experts claim that the AI lab’s success in the stock market will hinge entirely on its future potential.

Despite warnings from within the company that their product may indeed result in the heat death of us all, the burgeoning technology’s advocates see it differently, instead arguing that it may lead to the permanent solution of endemic social ills including world hunger, infectious diseases, and why my wife keeps crying in the kitchen.

The move is being treated by the industry as a canary-in-the-coalmine moment – how the stock performs will answer crucial questions about wider belief in AI’s capabilities.

If traders don’t invest, it could result in a loss of faith among hedge funds, defence contractors and other corporations currently investing in the technology.

In turn, large scale development projects could quickly go belly-up, including the construction of massive data centres and discovering why that old hag keeps turning up the Snow Patrol CD as if that somehow means I can’t hear her.

The Brazilian elections have seen the incumbent Lula da Silva hang onto his power and his opponent Flavio Bolsonaro (son of former president turned hiccuping convict Jair Bolsonaro) lose by over 4.4 million votes.

Being a sore loser clearly runs in the family, as Bolsonaro junior is alleging claims of electoral fraud as the voting window was extended. Given that only 34,000 voters actually utilised this extended period, it is hard to work out quite how he came to that conclusion, but alas.

Now that he has firmly lost the election, Brazil has cancelled Bolsonaro’s passports, issuing an order for him to surrender them as he is currently under investigation for alleged money laundering and corruption. 

He failed to comply and proceeded to cross the Brazil-Argentine border by foot on Tuesday evening before boarding a flight to Ecuador. 

From there, he resurfaced in Florida where he has been spotted hanging around commie-hating Cubans and looking into podcast studios to peddle right wing bullshit.

To be fair to Bolsonaro, it’s innocent until proven guilty, and he isn’t actually a convicted criminal, at least as of yet.

The same can’t be said of the winner of the election, the 80 year old former factory worker Lula, who previously served a sentence for, you guessed it, money laundering and corruption.

The now three-time President has always insisted that the charges were ‘politically motivated’, which coincidentally is something many 100% innocent, unjustly jailed politicians have also maintained in previous such cases.

Robots are moving into factories, warehouses and hospitals faster than most people realize. When a new industry takes off like this, the instinct is to buy a basket of names and hope one of them hits.

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There’s no easy way to say this, but Jared Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East dealmaker of choice/the taller reincarnation ofHenry Kissinger - might be corrupt.

Calm down, breathe deep, and take your time. We know it’s a lot to take in.

Our in-house counsel by has advised us to emphasise the might here. Might. Allegedly. You get the gist…

As investigative writer Matthew Cole details in his upcoming book Princes And Thieves, the evidence traces back to 2017 when a Russian spy, flipped by the Dutch, revealed to his new employers that he had hacked into the senior advisor’s iPhone, uncovering a paper trail of corruption to the tune of billions.

It’s been alleged that screenshots reveal hundreds of millions being transferred to Kushner from an Azerbaijani bank, as well as up to $2 billion from the Saudi royal family being deposited into his Israeli bank account.

The slum landlord/dealmaker has pushed back against the accusations, claiming that the investigative author behind them is “insane” and “just jealous is all.”

Though we’d love to believe him, this whole mess begs the question: if not the slimy newt-resembling son-in-law of the memecoiner-in-chief, who can we trust?

It’s the disappointment we’ve all been waiting for:

Labour chancellor John Healey has officially revealed the UK Autumn Budget for 2026.

For those of you who aren’t from our beautiful isle, the Budget is basically when the British Chancellor delivers a statement to parliament about the governments plans for the economy for the next year.

It’s usually made official by posing outside Downing Street holding a disastrously rouge briefcase, with the same energy of a 5 year old being forced to take a picture by their parents before the first day of big school.

When public belief that the government has their best interests at heart is at an all-time low, one can’t help but wonder why they didn’t pick a representative who looked less like Nosferatu der Vampyr.

Still, would Count Orlok, Bird Of Death, send 80% of households a one-off payment of £100 to cover their costs this winter?

While also reducing VAT to help lower energy bills until July 2027?

Or increase funding for social housing by £1.5 billion?

Or help around 70,000 first-time buyers purchase a home through government-backed equity loans of up to 20% of the property's value?

Or pledge £432 million to support efforts in getting homeless people “off the street and into my castle” while licking his lips and visibly dribbling?

Maybe. He definitely wouldn’t be pushing for cheaper garlic if he really was a Vampyr.

Dracula ramblings aside, the consensus seems to be that the Budget was ‘reassuringly boring’ title of my sextape.

I’m no economist, but that’s presumably far better than the opposite sentiment, disturbingly exciting.

On Tuesday, Israelis headed to the voting booths for the first time since October 7th.

Though many hoped it was a referendum on Israel’s military operations in Gaza (especially after the NAZA documentary was released in September) it was realistically a confidence verdict on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu who has been in power, on-and-off, since 1996. 

The opposition camp, led by Gavi Eisenkot of the Anyone but that Bibi motherfucker Yashar Party, needed to get a majority of 61/120 seats in the Knesset in order to form a coalition government. 

This didn’t happen, as is often the case in Israeli elections. Of the last six Israeli elections, four ended with neither bloc winning a majority of the 120 seats.

Ahh, the beauties of proportional representation.

There are a handful of outcomes of this election that are circulating in Israel at the moment: 

Whatever happens, it is now up to the Israeli President Isaac Herzog to appoint a PM to form a government.

As things stand it’s looking unlikely that Bibi will be asked to stay on as PM.

Then again, if the choice is between clinging to power by his fingernails or going to jail, he may just find a way to hang around a little longer.

Nothing like the last minute to spur you into action. Unless you’re the EU– and can’t agree on anything. 

Turns out that back when good-old German Ursula von der Leyen announced to Mark Carney in her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg last month that Canada would receive ‘associate membership’ of the EU, she perhaps forgot to run her plan past…well, anyone really.

Allegedly, the status gives Canada preferential treatment ahead of other nations who also seek a spot in the EU Pantheon, namely ones that are actually in Europe.

Eventually, mere minutes ahead of Von der Leyen and her entourage nipping off to Canada for a summit , the name tag was abandoned entirely, mainly on account of ze Germans complaining (shocker).

The summit still constitutes an ‘opening up’ to Canada as a close partner of the EU, but, at least for now, the ‘associate member’ tag is off the cards.

Macedonia/Albania/Turkey/Ukraine all breathe a collective sigh of relief.

When elected officials say they’re going to ‘fight for the people’, you don’t expect them to take it too literally.

Tell that to Armenia.

A fight broke out in the Armenian parliament over a row surrounding the proposed "Ministry of Sex" initiative, which then descended into personal attacks among members, and eventually, a full-blown fight.

This marked the third time in a single month that physical violence has broken out on the parliamentary floor.

At that rate, they may as well convert the chamber into a boxing ring.

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