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Anthropic and OpenAI are locked in a bitter rivalry that accelerated the generative AI boom, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rushing to release ChatGPT in late 2022 after learning of Anthropic's competing chatbot project. The…
IT leaders are increasingly turning to forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) from AI vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft to embed expert teams for deep AI integration into workflows, but experts warn the practice c…
SpaceX is set to go public with special treatment from Wall Street, including immediate inclusion in major stock indices and the largest-ever retail allocation, bypassing traditional requirements for profitability and a …
NEC announced Thursday that Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and five other major Japanese financial firms will join its AI collaboration with U.S. startup Anthropic. The partnership will …
SpaceX is set to go public Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion, a move that will make Elon Musk vastly wealthier and fund further AI data center expansion. Communities near xAI’s existing Memphis data cen…
The Dutch government and state-backed investor Invest-NL are injecting an additional €360 million into the Deep Tech Fonds, bringing its total to €610 million, as the Netherlands seeks to reduce reliance on foreign criti…
DubGuild raised ¥2.1 billion in seed funding led by JAFCO to develop a text-free, voice-focused AI model, signaling Japan's strategic push to build sovereign AI capabilities in niche areas. The investment, supported by M…
Anthropic's Claude model will not lead to a recursively self-improving AI god or a permanent underclass, as the company's marketing suggests, because AI technology is becoming a commodity where success depends primarily …
Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding there, with CEO Kaz Nejatian citing a shift toward smaller AI-native teams and a pu…
Okara, an AI CMO platform built by a team of four, now manages marketing for 120,000 companies by processing 4 billion tokens daily through a multi-provider AI stack on Vercel. The platform deploys eight specialized sub-…
Okara, an AI CMO platform built by a team of four, processes 4 billion tokens daily and manages marketing for over 120,000 businesses by directing eight specialized sub-agents across SEO, content, and social media. The c…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has only one direct report — his chief of staff — while his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, oversees the rest of the executive team and day-to-day operations. The unusual struc…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Washington to regulate the most powerful AI models under an FAA-style safety regime that could delay, block, or reverse releases failing public safety tests. The proposal, covered Wed…
Sarah Guo, a prominent AI investor and Cognition backer, published an essay arguing that the most defensible AI companies will be those focused on "untrainable" work—integrating models into messy, private customer realit…
Visa integrated its payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to make purchases at any Visa merchant without human authorization. The development capped a week of major AI advances including Anthropic's release of…
Stripe expanded its Projects platform with new agent integrations, 16 additional service providers, and enhanced developer controls, enabling AI agents to independently provision infrastructure and manage services from t…
General Motors is partnering with Peak Energy to develop sodium-ion battery cells for grid-scale energy storage, not for electric vehicles. GM Ventures is making a strategic investment in Peak Energy, with GM developing …
Guan Wang, CEO of Sapient Intelligence, claims his researchers trained a 1 billion parameter language model from scratch for approximately $1,500, according to a June 10 VentureBeat report. The model, called HRM Text, is…
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI, has launched a new company focused on personalized artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported on June 10. The venture shifts Babuschkin away from the race to build large…
Top AI voice Allie K. Miller told the WorkLab podcast that organizations should empower unconventional thinkers to experiment with AI, prioritizing speed and iteration over perfection. Miller argued that agentic workflow…