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Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
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Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade aro
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OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead ‘special projects’
In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her hea
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Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.
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AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
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People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center
A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.
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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
Moonbounce has raised $12 million to grow its AI control engine that converts content moderation policies into consistent, predictable AI behavior.
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OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
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Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models
MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.
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Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app
Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.
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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
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Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota
Meta's upcoming Hyperion AI data center will be powered by 10 new natural gas plants.
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Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try
The firm says it can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.
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Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together
StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together on April 30. Space is limited. Register here for your pass.
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.
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Anthropic is having a month
A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.
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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
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OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise
OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.
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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its busin
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Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub
You can now order from Uber Eats and Grubhub using Alexa+, an experience Amazon says will be similar to chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an ord
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Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
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Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “vide
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With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security
Ring's app store will allow the company to target broader use cases beyond security, like elder care or business needs.
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