{
 "issue": {
  "id": "WNR-2026-W43",
  "status": "APPROVED",
  "approved": true,
  "approved_by": "Net Jacobsson",
  "approved_on": "2026-10-25 (Asia/Jerusalem)",
  "window": {
   "start": "2026-10-19T00:00+03:00",
   "cutoff": "2026-10-23T10:30+03:00",
   "tz": "Asia/Jerusalem",
   "label": "19–23 Oct 2026",
   "report_date": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "thesis": "Capital this week went to frontier labs, robot hands and vertical AI apps faster than adoption evidence arrived. The money is real; the deployments are mostly still pilots or private previews.",
  "score_method": "conviction/10 = 0.25 capital + 0.25 adoption + 0.20 founder behavior + 0.20 corroboration + 0.10 attention; each factor 0–5 analyst-rated, result /5×10"
 },
 "narratives": [
  {
   "id": "N1",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Frontier-lab capital moves toward public markets",
   "core": "Frontier-lab funding is shifting from private mega-rounds to public-market disclosure, led by Anthropic's IPO process.",
   "short": "Anthropic S-1 details are leaking ahead of a planned mid-Nov IPO. A year-old lab raised a $1B Series A.",
   "key": "Anthropic H1-26 revenue $16.3B; net loss $80.7B, ~$72B of it non-cash (draft S-1; corrected 25 Oct). Flapping Airplanes $1B Series A.",
   "score": 8.6,
   "evidence": [
    "WSJ (20 Oct) reports a draft Anthropic S-1 showing an $80.7B net loss for H1 2026 and possible spending of $750B on compute, including deals still under negotiation [WSJ]. About $72B of that loss is a non-cash accounting charge for the higher fair value of convertible notes, not cash costs of running the business [RTRL]. *(Corrected 25 Oct: added the non-cash context.)*",
    "Yahoo Finance (21 Oct), citing WSJ: H1 2026 revenue was $16.3B. Three sources say the public S-1 could be filed as soon as Fri 23 Oct [YF].",
    "Reuters (22 Oct): the IPO is planned for mid-November, with marketing expected the week of 9 Nov; dates are subject to change [RTR].",
    "TechCrunch (21 Oct): Flapping Airplanes raised a $1B Series A co-led by Index and Lux, reportedly at a $6B valuation, nine months after a $180M seed [FA]."
   ],
   "founder": "Labs are choosing public disclosure (Anthropic) and very large early rounds (Flapping Airplanes) over staged private funding.",
   "hype": "Verified: the draft S-1 figures as reported by WSJ, and the Flapping Airplanes round. Unproven: IPO timing, and any valuation; Reuters cites investor views of $1.5T, Yahoo cites expectations of $2T. Those are speculation, not capital.",
   "why": "The S-1 will be the first audited benchmark of frontier-lab economics. Its loss and compute numbers become the reference point for valuing every lab.",
   "falsify": "The public S-1 is not on EDGAR by 6 Nov, or the roadshow does not start the week of 9 Nov.",
   "watch": "EDGAR public S-1 (expected 23 Oct–early Nov); roadshow week of 9 Nov.",
   "verdict": "The most consequential capital story of the week. Its direction depends on the S-1 actually appearing.",
   "rank": 1,
   "capital_evidence": "Draft S-1 figures (reported); $1B Series A",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 5,
    "adoption": 3,
    "founder_behavior": 4,
    "corroboration": 5,
    "attention": 5
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N3",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Physical AI: dexterous manipulation gets venture-scale money",
   "core": "Venture capital is pricing robot manipulation like a foundation-model bet before production deployments exist.",
   "short": "Eka Robotics $150M Series A at $1.45B post-money. Lab metrics are strong; deployments are pilots.",
   "key": "Eka $150M Series A (a16z, F-Prime), $1.45B post-money. Pilots only.",
   "score": 7.4,
   "evidence": [
    "Eka Robotics raised a $150M Series A at $1.45B post-money, led by a16z and F-Prime (20 Oct) [EKA][EKATC][A16Z].",
    "Company-reported lab figures: up to 1,500 picks per hour, versus about 600 for a human; >95% pick reliability per TechCrunch [EKA][EKATC]. a16z: sustaining that through full production shifts 'is the next test' [A16Z].",
    "Just Raised reports a $115M late-stage round for Reliable Robotics (autonomous flight) on 20 Oct [VERIFY: single aggregator] [JR]."
   ],
   "founder": "Founders from academia and DeepMind are building model, sensors and hardware together, and training in simulation instead of on human demonstrations.",
   "hype": "Verified: the round. Company-reported and not independently verified: pick rates. Unproven: production reliability; the gripper is at 5M of a 20M duty-cycle industrial benchmark (per SiliconReport, not cited as a primary source).",
   "why": "If dexterous manipulation works in production, automation extends into unstructured physical work, which is a much larger market than today's fixtured robotics.",
   "falsify": "No disclosed production deployment, or no intervention or uptime data, by end of Q1 2027.",
   "watch": "Eka customer deployment announcements.",
   "verdict": "Strong capital, weak adoption. Track it, but don't treat the round as demand.",
   "rank": 2,
   "capital_evidence": "$150M Series A, announced",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 4,
    "adoption": 2,
    "founder_behavior": 4,
    "corroboration": 5,
    "attention": 4
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N5",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Vertical AI apps raise growth-stage rounds",
   "core": "Crossover and mutual-fund investors are writing late-stage cheques into vertical AI applications.",
   "short": "Legora $550M Series E at $8.8B (from $5.6B). Pigment $250M Series E announced.",
   "key": "Legora $550M Series E (Atreides lead; Fidelity, Capital Group). Pigment $250M Series E, NVIDIA participation 'still planned'.",
   "score": 7.4,
   "evidence": [
    "Legora (legal AI) raised a $550M Series E at $8.8B post-money, up from $5.6B, led by Atreides with Fidelity and Capital Group among new investors (21 Oct) [LEG][LEGTC][SEU].",
    "Pigment announced a $250M Series E; NVIDIA participation is described as still planned (21 Oct) [FDR][CUT]."
   ],
   "founder": "Vertical app companies are raising growth rounds to expand geographically (Legora: North America) and to build agent layers.",
   "hype": "Verified: the Legora round (company release plus press). Partly unfinished: Pigment, since the NVIDIA portion isn't closed. No revenue figures were sourced this week, so adoption is inferred, not shown.",
   "why": "Late-stage money signals that investors believe vertical AI can hold pricing against the model labs.",
   "falsify": "Flat or down rounds in legal or planning AI within 6 months.",
   "watch": "Pigment round completion (NVIDIA portion).",
   "verdict": "Real capital, credible investors. Adoption still needs revenue evidence.",
   "rank": 3,
   "capital_evidence": "$550M + $250M Series E, announced",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 5,
    "adoption": 3,
    "founder_behavior": 3,
    "corroboration": 4,
    "attention": 3
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N6",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Distribution unbundles: models and software go cross-cloud",
   "core": "Frontier models and serving software are no longer tied to one cloud or one chip.",
   "short": "OpenAI models are on Google Cloud in private preview. DeepSeek and Google open-sourced serving and TPU software.",
   "key": "OpenAI on Google Cloud (private preview; GA 'coming weeks'). DeepInfer and TorchTPU open source. No capital amounts.",
   "score": 7.0,
   "evidence": [
    "OpenAI models are in private preview in Google Cloud's Model Garden, payable from existing cloud commitments; GA is planned 'in the coming weeks' (21 Oct) [OAI][GC].",
    "DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its serving engine, for Nvidia SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950 (20 Oct) [DI].",
    "TorchTPU released open source, giving native PyTorch support on TPUs (20 Oct) [TT]."
   ],
   "founder": "Labs are choosing reach through hyperscaler marketplaces over owning the customer relationship.",
   "hype": "Verified: the announcements. Unproven: uptake. It's a private preview, and DeepInfer's speed figures are DeepSeek's own.",
   "why": "Enterprise procurement moves to cloud contracts, and switching costs between accelerators fall.",
   "falsify": "Google Cloud GA slips beyond 31 Dec 2026.",
   "watch": "Google Cloud GA date for OpenAI models.",
   "verdict": "Structural, but this week's evidence is about access, not adoption.",
   "rank": 4,
   "capital_evidence": "No amounts",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 2,
    "adoption": 4,
    "founder_behavior": 3,
    "corroboration": 5,
    "attention": 4
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N2",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Verification infrastructure for AI-written code",
   "core": "As agents write more code, money and founders are moving to testing and verifying it.",
   "short": "Blacksmith $66M Series C at $1B, two months after its Series B.",
   "key": "Blacksmith $66M Series C (Sequoia), $1B valuation; ARR 17x (company-reported).",
   "score": 6.9,
   "evidence": [
    "Blacksmith (CI and testing) raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation, two months after a Series B at $550M (21 Oct) [BS].",
    "Company-reported: ARR grew 17x and it has run over 90M CI jobs. Customers include Mercury and Granola [BS].",
    "OpenAI's Codex agent workflows are being distributed through Google Cloud [OAI][GC]."
   ],
   "founder": "Founders are positioning CI as the 'trust layer' for agent code. Valuation step-ups are compressed into months.",
   "hype": "Verified: the round, though only one outlet was checked. Company-reported: the ARR multiple and job count. That Codex demand drives CI volume is an interpretation.",
   "why": "The bottleneck in agent coding moves from writing code to trusting it.",
   "falsify": "No other CI, code-review or agent-eval startup raises a priced round in the next 4 weeks.",
   "watch": "Rounds in CI, code review and agent evals.",
   "verdict": "Early but coherent. Needs a second company to confirm the pattern.",
   "rank": 5,
   "capital_evidence": "$66M Series C, announced",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 3,
    "adoption": 4,
    "founder_behavior": 4,
    "corroboration": 3,
    "attention": 3
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N4",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "↑",
   "name": "Defense new entrants: hardware plus early purchase orders",
   "core": "New defense startups lead with hardware and, in some cases, customer orders before they raise.",
   "short": "Warhound $200M at $1.2B. Stellios $5M pre-seed with $2M in signed purchase orders.",
   "key": "Warhound $200M (Sequoia, 8VC, In-Q-Tel) at $1.2B. Stellios $5M pre-seed plus $2M purchase orders (company-reported).",
   "score": 6.9,
   "evidence": [
    "Warhound came out of stealth with $200M at a $1.2B valuation from investors including Sequoia, 8VC and In-Q-Tel (22 Oct) [WH].",
    "Stellios Technologies (high-power microwave counter-drone) raised a $5M pre-seed and reports $2M in signed purchase orders (announced 20 Oct) [STL].",
    "Just Raised counts 7 defence and dual-use rounds in the week of 19 Oct, and 22 hardware versus 11 software rounds over 26 weeks [JR]."
   ],
   "founder": "Founders secure purchase orders before raising (Stellios). Strategic and intelligence-linked investors (In-Q-Tel) appear at launch.",
   "hype": "Verified: the rounds. Company-reported: the purchase orders, and they are not realised payments. Unproven: Warhound's product, since its dogs 'do not exist yet' per TechCrunch. Just Raised's Castelion date was wrong (see rejected evidence), which lowers trust in that aggregator.",
   "why": "Order books, not demos, are becoming the bar for defense seed money.",
   "falsify": "The purchase orders aren't converted to deliveries, or the round count drops back to the 26-week average.",
   "watch": "Counter-UAS contract awards.",
   "verdict": "Capital is clear. Commercial evidence is thin and company-reported.",
   "rank": 6,
   "capital_evidence": "$200M + $5M rounds; $2M POs (co.-reported)",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 4,
    "adoption": 3,
    "founder_behavior": 4,
    "corroboration": 3,
    "attention": 3
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "N7",
   "cls": "NEW",
   "arrow": "→",
   "name": "GPU and data-center financing as a structured asset class",
   "core": "Banks are starting to package GPUs and data centers as financeable assets.",
   "short": "One GPU-financing MOU, with no amount. Watch-only.",
   "key": "Korea Investment Securities × Samil PwC MOU (no amount).",
   "score": 3.5,
   "evidence": [
    "Korea Investment Securities signed a GPU-financing MOU with Samil PwC on 20 Oct; no amounts were disclosed [KIS].",
    "Anthropic's draft S-1 points to possible spending of $750B on compute, including deals still under negotiation [WSJ]."
   ],
   "founder": "No founder behavior evidenced this week.",
   "hype": "An MOU is not capital deployed. The $750B is a possible future spend, not a commitment.",
   "why": "If GPUs become standard collateral, compute capacity can grow faster than equity alone allows.",
   "falsify": "No priced GPU-backed debt deal in the next 4 weeks.",
   "watch": "Priced GPU ABS or project-finance deals.",
   "verdict": "Thin. Kept as watch-only.",
   "rank": 7,
   "capital_evidence": "MOU, no amount",
   "factors_0to5": {
    "capital": 2,
    "adoption": 1,
    "founder_behavior": 2,
    "corroboration": 2,
    "attention": 2
   }
  }
 ],
 "capital_flow_ledger": [
  {
   "transaction": "Flapping Airplanes · Series A",
   "amount_usd_m": 1000,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced",
   "source": "FA"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Legora · Series E",
   "amount_usd_m": 550,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced",
   "source": "LEG"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Pigment · Series E",
   "amount_usd_m": 250,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced; NVIDIA portion still planned",
   "source": "FDR"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Warhound · launch round",
   "amount_usd_m": 200,
   "type": "primary equity [VERIFY type]",
   "status": "announced",
   "source": "WH"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Eka Robotics · Series A",
   "amount_usd_m": 150,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced",
   "source": "EKA"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Blacksmith · Series C",
   "amount_usd_m": 66,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced",
   "source": "BS"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Stellios Technologies · pre-seed",
   "amount_usd_m": 5,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "announced (closed above target, per company)",
   "source": "STL"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Reliable Robotics · late stage",
   "amount_usd_m": 115,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "reported by aggregator [VERIFY]",
   "source": "JR"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Watchtower Labs · seed",
   "amount_usd_m": 35,
   "type": "primary equity",
   "status": "reported by aggregator [VERIFY]",
   "source": "JR"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Stellios Technologies · purchase orders",
   "amount_usd_m": 2,
   "type": "commercial contract",
   "status": "company-reported signed POs; not realised payments",
   "source": "STL"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Anthropic · IPO",
   "amount_usd_m": null,
   "type": "IPO process",
   "status": "public S-1 expected; not yet filed",
   "source": "RTR"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "Korea Investment Securities × Samil PwC",
   "amount_usd_m": null,
   "type": "financing MOU",
   "status": "signed MOU; no amount",
   "source": "KIS"
  },
  {
   "transaction": "OpenAI × Google Cloud",
   "amount_usd_m": null,
   "type": "distribution partnership",
   "status": "private preview",
   "source": "OAI"
  }
 ],
 "ledger_totals": {
  "primary_equity_announced_verified_usd_m": 2021,
  "primary_equity_aggregator_only_VERIFY_usd_m": 150,
  "warhound_type_VERIFY_usd_m": 200,
  "commercial_contracts_company_reported_usd_m": 2,
  "note": "Kept separate by type and status. No blended total. Valuations excluded."
 },
 "founder_behavior_radar": [
  {
   "behavior": "Raise after customer orders",
   "evidence": "Stellios: $2M signed POs before its $5M pre-seed [STL]",
   "interpretation": "Defense seed money is starting to require order books."
  },
  {
   "behavior": "Very fast valuation step-ups",
   "evidence": "Blacksmith $550M→$1B in 2 months [BS]; Flapping Airplanes $1.5B→$6B (reported) in 9 months [FA]",
   "interpretation": "Investors are paying for momentum. That raises the cost of any growth miss."
  },
  {
   "behavior": "Co-design model and hardware",
   "evidence": "Eka builds model, force sensors and gripper together [A16Z]",
   "interpretation": "Physical-AI moats are system-level, not model-only."
  },
  {
   "behavior": "Sell through rivals' channels",
   "evidence": "OpenAI models on Google Cloud [OAI]",
   "interpretation": "Reach is being prioritised over owning the customer."
  },
  {
   "behavior": "Open-source production internals",
   "evidence": "DeepSeek DeepInfer [DI]; TorchTPU [TT]",
   "interpretation": "Inference cost and chip choice are being commoditised from below."
  }
 ],
 "signal_vs_noise": {
  "signal": [
   "Announced primary equity rounds with named lead investors (Legora, Eka, Blacksmith, Warhound, Flapping Airplanes)",
   "OpenAI models available in Google Cloud (private preview)",
   "Open-source releases of DeepInfer and TorchTPU"
  ],
  "noise": [
   "IPO valuation chatter ($1.5T–$2T) is not capital",
   "Eka's lab pick rates are not production adoption",
   "Stellios's purchase orders are not realised revenue",
   "An MOU with no amount (KIS × Samil PwC)",
   "Aggregator-only rounds [VERIFY]"
  ]
 },
 "watch_next_week": [
  {
   "dates": "23 Oct–6 Nov",
   "item": "Anthropic public S-1 on EDGAR",
   "narrative": "N1"
  },
  {
   "dates": "week of 9 Nov",
   "item": "Anthropic roadshow start",
   "narrative": "N1"
  },
  {
   "dates": "'coming weeks'",
   "item": "Google Cloud GA of OpenAI models",
   "narrative": "N6"
  },
  {
   "dates": "open",
   "item": "Pigment Series E: NVIDIA portion closes",
   "narrative": "N5"
  },
  {
   "dates": "open",
   "item": "Independent benchmarks of DeepInfer",
   "narrative": "N6"
  },
  {
   "dates": "next 4 weeks",
   "item": "Another priced round in CI / agent evals",
   "narrative": "N2"
  }
 ],
 "market_context": [
  "Reuters (22 Oct): the fall tech-IPO calendar is 'down to just Anthropic' amid AI market jitters [RTR].",
  "Yahoo Finance (21 Oct): investors are more concerned about the AI industry's massive spending [YF].",
  "Not researched this week [unavailable]: financing costs, credit spreads, public versus private valuation gaps."
 ],
 "rejected_evidence": [
  {
   "item": "Castelion $1B round",
   "reason": "Just Raised lists it as announced 19 Oct, but the company release is dated 19 Aug 2026, outside the window. Excluded.",
   "source": "CAS"
  }
 ],
 "prior_week_scorecard": {
  "available": false,
  "rows": [],
  "note": "Comparison unavailable: no prior verified Weekly Narrative Radar exists. W43 is the baseline. All narratives are classed NEW; no historical scores or predictions are invented."
 },
 "sources": {
  "A16Z": {
   "publisher": "Andreessen Horowitz",
   "title": "Investing in Eka Robotics",
   "url": "https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-eka-robotics/",
   "date": "2026-10-20"
  },
  "BS": {
   "publisher": "TechCrunch",
   "title": "Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/blacksmith-hits-unicorn-valuation-after-sequoia-leads-series-c/",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "CAS": {
   "publisher": "Castelion",
   "title": "Castelion Raises $1B Series C",
   "url": "https://www.castelion.com/news/series-c/",
   "date": "2026-08-19"
  },
  "CUT": {
   "publisher": "Cutoff Report",
   "title": "Startup & AI funding today, 21 October 2026",
   "url": "https://cutoffreport.com/posts/ai-startup-funding-roundup-2026-10-21",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "DI": {
   "publisher": "The Next Web",
   "title": "DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer",
   "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-deepinfer-open-source-inference-engine",
   "date": "2026-10-20"
  },
  "EKA": {
   "publisher": "Eka Robotics",
   "title": "Eka Robotics Raises $150M",
   "url": "https://ekarobotics.com/blog/eka-robotics-raises-150m-to-build-superhuman-intelligence-for-the-physical-world",
   "date": "2026-10-20"
  },
  "EKATC": {
   "publisher": "TechCrunch",
   "title": "Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/eka-is-worth-1-45-billion-thanks-to-a-physical-ai-model-that-has-experts-raving/",
   "date": "2026-10-20"
  },
  "FA": {
   "publisher": "TechCrunch",
   "title": "Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/year-old-ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-raises-1b-at-a-6b-valuation/",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "FDR": {
   "publisher": "Foundra",
   "title": "The Daily Brief, 21 Oct 2026",
   "url": "https://foundranews.com/edition?date=2026-10-21",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "GC": {
   "publisher": "Google Cloud Blog",
   "title": "Google Cloud brings OpenAI models to customers",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-brings-openai-models-to-customers",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "JR": {
   "publisher": "Just Raised",
   "title": "Defence rounds: hardware still dominates software",
   "url": "https://justraised.io/blog/jpmorgan-s-1b-castelion-bet-brings-banks-into",
   "date": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "KIS": {
   "publisher": "DigitalToday",
   "title": "Korea Investment Securities teams up with Samil PwC on GPU financing",
   "url": "https://www.digitaltoday.co.kr/en/view/117405/korea-investment-securities-expand-ai-infrastructure-finance-join-hands-with-samil-pwc-on-gpu-financing",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "LEG": {
   "publisher": "Legora",
   "title": "Legora raises $550 million Series E at $8.8 billion valuation",
   "url": "https://legora.com/newsroom/legora-raises-550-million-series-e-at-8.8-billion-valuation-to-accelerate-growth",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "LEGTC": {
   "publisher": "TechCrunch",
   "title": "Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/legal-ai-startup-legora-raises-550m-series-e-at-8-8b-valuation/",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "OAI": {
   "publisher": "OpenAI",
   "title": "OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud",
   "url": "https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud",
   "date": "2026-10-21"
  },
  "RTR": {
   "publisher": "Reuters (via Investing.com)",
   "title": "Anthropic IPO stands alone as AI market jitters sideline others",
   "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/analysisanthropic-ipo-stands-alone-as-ai-market-jitters-sideline-others-4966313",
   "date": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "RTRL": {
   "publisher": "Reuters (via Euronext)",
   "title": "Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026",
   "url": "https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/anthropic-logged-net-loss-over-80-billion-first-half-2026",
   "date": "2026-10-20"
  },
  "SEU": {
   "publisher": "Startup.eu",
   "title": "Startup funding, 21 October 2026",
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