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Anthropic commits $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years

According to The Information, Anthropic has committed to spending roughly $200 billion on Google Cloud over the next five years, in exchange for five gigawatts of server capacity. Together with OpenAI ...
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US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US Department of Commerce, has signed new agreements with Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI. The goal is to test advanced AI models ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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White House worried about compute limits as it blocks wider access to Anthropic's Mythos

The White House has rejected Anthropic's plan to expand access to its AI model Mythos to roughly 70 additional companies, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mythos can find and exploit software ...
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White House moves to restore Anthropic access after Pentagon standoff

The White House is drafting guidance that would let federal agencies work with Anthropic again, including access to the company's new model Mythos. A draft executive action could sidestep the Pentagon ...
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Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along

Google is rolling out personalization features for Gemini in Europe. The main one, "Memories," lets Gemini learn from past chats to tailor future responses. It's on by default and can be turned off in ...
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Google pours up to $40 billion into ChatGPT rival Anthropic

Google is investing up to $40 billion in AI company Anthropic. The first $10 billion comes based on Anthropic's current $380 billion valuation, with the remaining $30 billion tied to specific ...
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Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion

Anthropic is reviewing investor offers for a new funding round that would value the AI company at over $900 billion, Bloomberg reports. That would let Anthropic overtake rival OpenAI as the world's ...
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Survey finds Claude's weekly active users in the US skew far wealthier than any rival AI assistant

Claude's user base is notably more affluent than other AI assistants. A survey by Epoch AI and Ipsos found that 80 percent of US adults who use Claude live in households earning more than $100,000 a ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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Google CEO says Pichai says people "love" AI Overviews and keep coming back to search more

Alphabet plans to invest up to 190 billion US dollars in AI and cloud infrastructure by 2026 to keep pace with surging demand for server and network services, with spending expected to rise further in ...
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Read full article about: Google speeds up Gemma 4 threefold with multi-token prediction Google has released multi-token prediction drafters (MTP) for its open AI model family Gemma 4, designed to ...