Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0%, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9% and GPT-6 Astra at 9.6%, across 11 domains such as chip design, cybersecurity, biology, finance and law; the leaderboard will be refreshed every three to six months.
A securities registration filed with Japan's Kanto Finance Bureau on Monday puts proceeds toward working capital, operating costs and capital spending; it gives no overall IPO size or valuation, though Reuters says investors have discussed about $1.5 trillion.
By midday Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore and Taipei were down while Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai rose; Goldman puts hyperscaler capital spending near $800 billion this year and $1.2 trillion in 2027.
SK hynix says it has long-term deals with 14 customers covering more than half its 2027 and 2028 capacity, and Samsung has 10 signed with 10 more in talks.
ArtificialWatch says hidden page text listed it around 15:30 UTC on Sunday and was gone by about 17:30; Anthropic has announced nothing, and a separate GPT-6.2 Astra string in OpenAI's Codex tools is also unconfirmed.
The Abu Dhabi Media Office says Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled met Sam Altman as ADNOC agreed to run OpenAI models with in-country inference and a machine-readable government pilot went live for food imports; no financial terms were given.
President Lee Jae Myung's 2027 budget speech asks parliament for 21.3 trillion won for a chip hub, data centres, physical AI and AI, plus a separate 4.6 trillion won for a sovereign AI model; an earlier version of this item gave 4.7 trillion.
Vice-President Boris Vujčić said on Monday that AI valuations, bond-market stress and possible losses at shadow banks are the main current risks, Reuters reports; the ECB's next Financial Stability Review is due on November 18, and his prepared Dublin speech text does not detail the AI point.
The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported OpenAI lowered its round from $30 billion to about $20 billion after raising about $11 billion; SoftBank's losses narrowed during the session.
Tesla's Robotaxi account announced the launch for 6 a.m. Central time on November 2, its fourth Texas city; a tracker lists it as live from that hour, while Tesla has not said how many cars will serve it or whether a safety monitor rides along.
The Turkish Competition Authority says it is examining whether the features cut traffic to publishers, use unfair content terms or discriminate; until a ruling, Google may not force news sites into its AI features, must reflect the economic value of their content and cannot tie opt-outs to search indexing.
CNBC says the weekend visit builds on OpenAI's memory chip partnerships; Korean reports describe a lunch with SK chairman Chey Tae-won on HBM supply.