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UK competition regulator to investigate Alphabet’s investment in Anthropic

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into Alphabet’s investment in AI rival, Anthropic. The investigation comes three months after the CMA confirmed it was inviting “interested parties” to comment on Alphabet’s various investments in Anthropic, which includes a reported $300 million early last year followed by another reported $2 billion. The probe […]

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Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own. The company referred to this as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching” — one it believed that could, if all goes according to

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Can AI sandbag safety checks to sabotage users? Yes, but not very well — for now

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, or unsafe stuff. But what if the models were capable of evading those checks and, for some reason, trying to sabotage or mislead users? Turns out they can do this, according to Anthropic researchers. Just

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Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropic’s model ecosystem growing so quickly, it can be tough to keep track of

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This Week in AI: AWS loses a top AI exec

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Last week, AWS lost a top AI exec. Matt Wood, VP of AI, announced that he’d be leaving AWS after 15 years. Wood had long been involved in the Amazon division’s AI initiatives; he was appointed

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Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants you to know he’s not an AI “doomer.” At least, that’s my read of the “mic drop” of a ~15,000 word essay Amodei published to his blog late Friday. (I tried asking Anthropic’s Claude chatbot whether it concurred, but alas, the post exceeded the free plan’s length limit.) In broad

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he’s based), but didn’t say which Anthropic org he’ll be joining — or leading. Reached for comment, an Anthropic spokesperson

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Green flags for defense tech and Silicon Valley’s longevity obsession

Biotech & Health / Sasandara Dilmina

This episode of Equity had so many themes: VC karaoke, the SpaceX economy, no moats for AI, OpenAI versus open source. You know it’s going to be good when the conversation between host Kirsten Korosec and fellow TCers Devin Coldewey and Margaux MacColl starts with the evergreen question: is it ever OK to use shirtless

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Amazon dodges antitrust scrutiny in UK over Anthropic investment

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

The U.K.s’ antitrust authority has concluded that Amazon’s partnership and equity investment in AI startup Anthropic can’t be investigated under current merger rules due to the size and scope of the deal. The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) announcement comes six months to the day after news emerged that Amazon had completed a $4

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Canva wants you to pay a lot more for its AI features

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

Canva is dramatically increasing prices for some customers. Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans will see a 300% increase for a five-person plan, jumping from $119.99 per year to $500 per year. Users will get a 40% discount for the first 12 months before the switch takes effect. The company is pointing to its

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