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On 2026-10-20, a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street Journal showed that Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, has not secured as much cloud computing capacity as it wants from Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. The gap matters because the company's costs and obligations are rising fast. On 2026-10-23, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that Iran would target undersea communication cables in the Gulf if fighting with the United States and Israel resumes. The threat puts the physical backbone of internet and data traffic in the region on the conflict's list of potential targets.

On 2026-11-02, Germany's federal cybersecurity office, the BSI, warned that members of the Bundestag and other unnamed prominent people may have been targeted by government-backed spyware. Apple sends notifications periodically to people it believes may have been targeted. Such software can steal messages, location data and other sensitive information.

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