… Beyond Anthropic In addition to startups and AI builders, the Anthropic episode also prompted a broader debate among India’s technology leaders about dependence on foreign AI infrastructure. …
… Kharazian is skeptical about whether this advantage will last, for reasons he explained in a blog post, but said the success of the past year was proof that Anthropic had chosen a good strategy. “What Anthropic did worked really well,” Kharazian told TechCrunch, “which was — start with a very techn… …
… The announcement comes just as Anthropic’s chief rival is preparing to make a similar move. Mere hours before the Anthropic announcement, Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was raising funds for a new venture called The Development Company, along very similar lines. …
… In the launch post, Anthropic’s early testers found that the new model is “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims.” Echoing this point, a testimonial from Bridgewater associates said the biggest difference in the upgrade was “Opus 4.8’s tendency … …
… The technology is particularly valuable to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Replicate, Runway, and Cloudflare that are building AI agents that can connect to external software and complete tasks on behalf of users. …
… The new funding will help bolster Frontier’s position in the carbon removal industry, but more notable are Anthropic’s pledges. While Google is a founding member, Anthropic is the first pure AI company to join the ranks. …
Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic , pledging billions of dollars a month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster. It was a coup for both companies, giving xAI some much-needed revenue and helping Anthropic catch up in the never-ending race for compute. …
… David Sacks, Trump’s former AI czar who now co-chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, offered his own account of the discussions, claiming that “a highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG … came forward with a jailbreak.” Sacks added, “The Admin a… …
… FT’s report adds to earlier news from Axios, which reported in April that the NSA was using Mythos despite a federal ban on using Anthropic’s technology. …
… The startup was founded by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, who previously worked at AI4Bharat, an Indian-language AI research initiative at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras backed by technology veteran Nandan Nilekani. “Our ambition is to diffuse this technology widely in India, creatin… …