Shadow News Weekly: Anthropic Files for Its IPO as Samsung Smashes Records

Welcome to the Shadow News weekly roundup for October 26 – November 1, 2026. Anthropic opened its books for what could be a record IPO, Samsung posted the biggest quarter any tech company has ever reported, and Apple's M6 Macs arrived. Hollywood also said goodbye to Sir Patrick Stewart, and the manga world lost Ashita no Joe creator Tetsuya Chiba. Here are the stories that mattered most.

💻 TECH

Anthropic filed to go public, and the numbers are huge.
The Claude maker's S-1 shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and it plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT." Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are leading the offering, and the share count and price range haven't been set yet.
Source · investing.com ↗

Samsung just posted a record KRW 107.4 trillion quarter.
Samsung Electronics became the first global tech company to top KRW 100 trillion in operating profit in a single quarter. Chips made KRW 106.5 trillion of it, driven by AI memory demand including HBM4.
Source · news.samsung.com ↗

Apple's M6 Macs are here.
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,999 with up to 24 hours of battery life, and the new iMac starts at $1,499 in seven colors. Apple says M6 brings up to 30% faster graphics than M5, and both ship November 6.
Source · apple.com ↗

🏛️ POLICY

Sweden's government cut ChatGPT and Claude off its work computers.
Staff at the Government Offices can no longer open either chatbot in the browser and are being pointed to Microsoft Copilot, which passed a security review. Some staff can still reach both models through an internal platform.
Source · svt.se ↗

🎮 GAMES

FromSoftware's The Duskbloods is delayed to 2027.
The Switch 2 exclusive was due this year, but FromSoftware says it needs more time for final adjustments to game rules and balance after August's network test. There's no new date or month yet.
Source · videogameschronicle.com ↗

Phantom Blade Zero launched to glowing reviews.
S-Game's kung fu action RPG landed at 88 on Metacritic and 91 on OpenCritic, with critics praising its combat and boss fights. It's out now on PS5 and PC.
Source · thegamer.com ↗

🎬 MOVIES

Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at 86.
The actor behind Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier passed away on October 28 at his home in Los Angeles, his representative said. Ian McKellen, William Shatner and George Takei led the tributes to an actor whose career ran from the Royal Shakespeare Company to two of the biggest franchises in film and TV.
Source · deadline.com ↗

Donald Glover is making a live-action PUBG series for Netflix.
He'll direct and star, and he's writing and executive producing it with his brother Stephen Glover. The show adapts Krafton's battle royale hit, with Krafton's LV3H involved in production, and no release timing has been announced.
Source · deadline.com ↗

Mouthwashing is getting a movie.
Sony Pictures' Screen Gems picked up the film rights to the cult psychological horror game, with Karyn Kusama (Jennifer's Body, Yellowjackets) directing. Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay are writing.
Source · deadline.com ↗

⛩️ ANIME

Death Stranding is getting an anime series.
Death Stranding Isolations is a hand-drawn 2D series from E&H production, directed by Takayuki Sano with original character designs by Ilya Kuvshinov and scripts by Tow Ubukata. It tells a brand-new story away from the games and streams exclusively on Disney+ in 2027.
Source · kojimaproductions.jp ↗

Ashita no Joe creator Tetsuya Chiba has passed away at 87.
The manga legend passed away on October 22 in Tokyo. His boxing classic Ashita no Joe inspired two anime series, two films and later Megalobox, and in 2024 he became the first manga creator to receive Japan's Order of Culture.
Source · animenewsnetwork.com ↗

Date A Live's last date is a movie.
Date A Live F Last Date will wrap up the anime as a theatrical film, opening in Japan on March 26, 2027. The new teaser opens on an inverted Tohka, with Junji Nishimura directing at Studio Fugaku.
Source · animenewsnetwork.com ↗

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