Anthropic announced Wednesday that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in the Seattle tech scene. The acquisition is the latest following Anthropic’s acquisition in December, when Anthropic acquired the Bun coding agent module to help expand Claude Code. Vercept has built tools for more complex … Read more
The proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national power grid has helped drive up consumer electricity prices, raising the average national price of electricity by more than 6% in the past year. That’s not a good look for incumbents ahead of this fall’s election, and President Donald Trump addressed the challenge in his … Read more
With OpenAI on the verge of completing a new $100 billion round and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is clear: the concept of investor “loyalty” hangs in the balance. At least a dozen direct investors in OpenAI were announced as backers of the $30 billion raised by Antropic earlier … Read more
Anthropic alleges that DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI companies misused its Claude AI model to improve their own products. In Monday’s announcement, Anthropic says “industrial-scale campaigns” involved the creation of approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and more than 16 million exchanges with Claude, as it previously reported. The Wall Street Journal. The three companies – … Read more
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI companies of setting up more than 24,000 fake accounts with its Claude AI model to improve their own models. The labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — reportedly generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through these accounts using a technique called “distillation.” Anthropic said the labs “focused … Read more
OpenAI is strengthening partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to expand its business in 2026. OpenAI announced “Frontier Alliances” on Monday, a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different approaches to get businesses to meaningfully adopt its technology. The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and the … Read more
Aiming to attract more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI and Big Tech labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic … Read more
The creator economy is growing rapidly, and ad revenue alone is no longer cutting it. YouTubers launch product lines, acquire startups, and build real business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is earning his media arm. This is not just a strategy of one creator. For many, this … Read more
Move over, PayPal mob: There’s a new tech mob in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is now reportedly in talks to complete a $100 billion deal that values the company at more than $850 billion. Many employees have come and gone since … Read more
Aiming to attract more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI and Big Tech labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic … Read more