In a recent experiment known as Project Deal, Anthropic established a classified marketplace where AI agents played the roles of both buyers and sellers, facilitating real transactions involving tangible goods for actual money. Participants included 69 Anthropic employees who received a budget of $100 (distributed through gift cards) to purchase items from their colleagues. Despite […]
Meta is set to utilize its employees’ mouse movements and keystrokes as a new source of training data for its artificial intelligence models. This step underscores the tech industry’s continuous search for innovative data reservoirs vital for training AI systems to perform tasks and respond to user interactions more effectively. According to a statement from […]
Anthropic has announced that Amazon will invest an additional $5 billion, raising its total investment in the AI company to $13 billion. In exchange, Anthropic has committed to spending over $100 billion on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the next decade, which will provide them with up to 5 gigawatts of new computing capacity to […]
OpenAI has been making headlines recently, primarily due to its acquisitions of the personal finance startup Hiro and the media company TBPN. These moves have sparked discussions about the company’s strategic direction and the challenges it faces in the AI landscape. On a recent episode of the TechCrunch Equity podcast, hosted by Kirsten Korosec, Sean […]
Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, as announced through a social media post that reads, “Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston 🤠.” This announcement was accompanied by a brief video showcasing Tesla vehicles operating without any human drivers or monitors in the front seat. With this expansion, Tesla’s […]
More than three years after generative AI burst onto the scene, AI-assisted coding continues to dominate as a leading application of this technology. A plethora of companies, including Anthropic with its Claude Code, along with Cursor and Cognition, are fiercely competing for market share. However, many investors believe there’s still space for another contender in […]
OpenAI has made significant updates to its Agents SDK, aiming to equip enterprises with tools to create advanced automated agents. This update comes at a time when agentic AI is gaining traction, with OpenAI and other companies like Anthropic competing in this space. The newly enhanced SDK introduces features that allow businesses to develop agents […]
Jack Clark, co-founder and Head of Public Benefit at Anthropic, shared insights about the AI company’s engagement with the Trump administration regarding its advanced AI model, Mythos. In a recent interview at the Semafor World Economy summit, Clark confirmed that the company had briefed the administration on the model, which has been withheld from public […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently held a meeting with bank executives, urging them to test Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, for identifying vulnerabilities, as reported by Bloomberg. While JPMorgan Chase was initially the only partner listed with access to this model, other major banks like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank […]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently addressed an alarming event at his San Francisco residence, where a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his home. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the police later apprehended a suspect at OpenAI’s headquarters, where he reportedly threatened to set the building ablaze. In a blog post penned late Friday, Altman […]