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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

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Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid […]

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Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI, offers Claude to ‘all three branches of government’ for $1

Government & Policy /

Just a week after OpenAI announced it would offer ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire federal executive branch workforce at $1 per year per agency, Anthropic has raised the stakes. The AI giant said Tuesday it would also offer its Claude models to government agencies for just $1 – but not only to the executive branch.

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Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’ 

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Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend reports that Tesla has disbanded the team working on its Dojo AI training supercomputer, just weeks after announcing he expected to have Tesla’s second cluster operating “at scale” in 2026.  “Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some

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Pinterest CEO says agentic shopping is still a long way out

Commerce /

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that the social app and inspirational bookmarking site could be considered an “AI-enabled shopping assistant.” However, he thinks that the agentic web, where AI agents shop on users’ behalf, is still far in the future. The remarks were made in response to a

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Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed

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Google announced on Friday that it’s giving Google Finance, its tool that provides financial information and business news, an AI update. Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news. With the update, users can now ask detailed questions about finance and

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AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO

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After a second-quarter earnings beat, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky shared his thoughts on the company’s AI strategy, cautioning investors that AI chatbots can’t yet be thought of as the “new Google.” That is, AI chatbots, while potentially driving new leads to the travel and services business, aren’t entirely a replacement for the referrals that the

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

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AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform.  The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in

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Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must ‘resign immediately’

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Amidst heightening tensions with China, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, must step down, accusing Tan of harboring conflicts of interest. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump

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