Anthropic, Amazon, and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to the Defense Department

Government workers will be able to sift through classified information up to the ‘secret’ level using AI.

Business - Inc. - November 8

Amazon pumps another $4bn into AI start-up Anthropic

Tech group doubles total investment to $8bn as generative artificial intelligence race intensifies

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

Amazon to invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic

Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic as major technology companies rush to fund generative AI

Tech - ABC News - Yesterday

Amazon doubles down on AI startup Anthropic with $4bn investment

Amazon’s total investment in the AI company now totals $8bn, with its AWS unit as Anthropic’s cloud provider. The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Friday it had raised an ...

World - The Guardian - Yesterday

Amazon Just Invested Another $4 Billion in AI Startup Anthropic

The shopping and computing giant is literally doubling down on enterprise AI.

Business - Inc. - Yesterday

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, positioning itself as a key player in the AI arms race

Amazon strengthens its position in the AI race with an additional $4 billion investment in Anthropic, committing to custom silicon and cloud dominance to compete with Microsoft and Google.

Tech - VentureBeat - Yesterday

Amazon steps up effort to build AI chips that can rival Nvidia

Big Tech group’s Annapurna Labs is spending big to build custom chips that lessen its reliance on market leader

Business - Financial Times - November 12

Amazon investing more in Anthropic, ChatGPT's competitor

Amazon has announced a $4 billion investment in Anthropic, one of OpenAI's main competitors. CBS News contributor JD Durkin has more on the brands trying to compete with the popular ChatGPT ...

Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

Business - CNBC - Yesterday

Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in Anthropic, an OpenAI Rival

The tech giant doubles its investment in the startup as it aims to compete in the AI arms race.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - Yesterday

Amazon Invests $4 Billion in Anthropic, Deepening Its A.I. Ties

Since last September, the tech giant has pumped $8 billion into the artificial intelligence start-up, a sign of intense competition in developing tools that are reshaping the tech sector.

Business - The New York Times - Yesterday

Palantir’s stock surges as AI drives a further acceleration in growth

Palantir’s CEO says the latest earnings are ”a slap in the face of people who continue to believe that the value of AI is solely in building AI large language models.”

Business - MarketWatch - November 5

Palantir’s shares jump as ‘unwavering demand’ for AI lifts earnings

Peter Thiel’s data analytics company raises its revenue forecast as growth accelerates

Business - Financial Times - November 4

Palantir shares close up 23% to record on uplifting guidance

Palantir shares soared to a record on Tuesday after the software company reported better-than-expected results and issued uplifting guidance.

Business - CNBC - November 5

Palantir’s stock racks up new bearish call on its ‘unsustainable’ valuation

A Jefferies analyst thinks Palantir’s large base of retail-investor support “is a double-edged sword.”

Business - MarketWatch - November 7

NHS take-up of Palantir data platform rises despite hurdles

Figures released by NHS England show slower than hoped rollout of software

World - Financial Times - 2 days ago

Can Trump’s former defense lawyer protect the Justice Department from his wrath?

DOJ officials say Todd Blanche, a former federal prosecutor, knows its tradition of blocking politicians from influencing criminal investigations, but he faces a daunting task.

Justice Department files charges in murder-for-hire scheme targeting Donald Trump

The Department of Justice announced charges against an Iranian man and two others in a plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump.

Politics - NBC News - November 8

Microsoft's GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, lets developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google

GitHub is giving software developers more choices for its popular coding assistant, meaning they won't be limited to models from OpenAI.

Business - CNBC - October 29

Anthropic’s new AI tools promise to simplify prompt writing and boost accuracy by 30%

Anthropic introduces new AI tools, including a prompt improver and example management, designed to automate prompt engineering, boost accuracy by 30%, and enhance enterprise AI development.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 14

Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages

Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people. At dusk, Piyulaga ...

World - The Guardian - October 29

Homeland Security Department releases framework for using AI in critical infrastructure

The Biden administration has released guidelines for using artificial intelligence in the power grid, water system, air travel network and other pieces of critical infrastructure

Tech - ABC News - November 14

Google’s AI-Fueled Results Bode Well for Rivals Amazon and Microsoft

Sales gains in its cloud business point to growing, sustained demand for AI-juiced computing power.

Business - Inc. - October 30

Amazon reports boost in quarterly profits, exceeds revenue estimates as it invests in AI

Amazon reported a boost in its quarterly profits Thursday and exceeded revenue estimates

Tech - ABC News - October 31

Amazon Shares Rise on Robust Demand, Surge in AI Infrastructure Spending

The tech company’s capital expenditures reached a quarterly record amid a big build-out of artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 31

AI demand drives growth and higher spending at Amazon’s cloud business

Ecommerce company’s shares rise as it also gives an upbeat forecast for the holiday quarter

Business - Financial Times - October 31

Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon’s first AI defense contract

The Pentagon awards its first-ever generative AI defense contract worth $1.8M to Jericho Security, targeting deepfake attacks and AI-powered threats against military personnel including drone pilots.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 5

GitHub unveils new AI capabilities, bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode and beyond

GitHub expands Copilot with multi-model AI, Apple Xcode support, Stack Overflow extent and Spark for easy app creation.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 29

Microsoft brings AI to the farm and factory floor, partnering with industry giants

Microsoft collaborates with Siemens, Bayer, and Rockwell Automation to launch industry-specific AI models designed to boost efficiency in manufacturing, agriculture, and finance through tailored AI ...

Tech - VentureBeat - November 13

Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World

Physical Intelligence has assembled an all-star team and raised $400 million on the promise of a stunning breakthrough in how robots learn.

Tech - Wired - November 14

AnyChat brings together ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and more for ultimate AI flexibility

AnyChat unifies ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and more under one platform, offering developers and enterprises unprecedented flexibility to switch between leading AI models seamlessly.

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

Microsoft brings transactional databases to Fabric to boost AI agents

At its Ignite 2024 conference today, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking down data silos separating transactional databases and analytical tools. The tech giant revealed that Azure ...

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

Goodbye cloud, Hello phone: Adobe’s SlimLM brings AI to mobile devices

Adobe's SlimLM, a breakthrough AI system, brings advanced document processing directly to smartphones without the need for cloud computing, offering enhanced privacy and reduced costs for businesses.

Tech - VentureBeat - 4 days ago

Justice Department calls for breakup of Google and sale of Chrome

The proposed breakup calls for Google to sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions designed to prevent its Android smartphone software from favoring its search engine.

Trump nominates Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new efficiency department to ‘restructure federal agencies’ – live

Tesla CEO and onetime Republican presidential hopeful put forward to lead department to ‘dismantle government bureaucracy’ . Trump’s cabinet picks and likely contenders so far Joe Biden is ...

World - The Guardian - November 13