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Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The San Francisco company has now surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup. OpenAI’s last valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. A broad …
YouTube is making it easier for viewers to identify AI-generated content on its platform. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that the platform is introducing automatic AI content labels and moving existing disclosures to more visible positions on the page. Until now, YouTube required creators to manually disclose AI use. Going forward, YouTube will also apply …
Google’s redesigned search experience is experiencing novel problems: users discovered that searching for the word “disregard” and similar terms can return a nearly empty AI-generated response. Russell Brandom reports for TechCrunch that the new interface buries traditional search results far below the fold, replacing them with AI summaries that, in this case, provide no useful …
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …
Google has overhauled its lineup of AI subscription plans, introducing a new lower-cost Ultra tier and lowering the price of its most expensive option. The changes were announced at the company’s I/O developer conference. The new entry point into the Ultra tier costs $100 per month. Google says it targets developers, technical leads, and advanced …
Google and OpenAI are expanding their tools to help users identify AI-generated media. The companies are combining their technologies to make digital content verification more reliable across the internet. Google is integrating its digital watermarking technology, SynthID, with the industry-standard C2PA Content Credentials. The company is rolling out these verification features across Google Search, Chrome, …
Malta has become the first country to offer all its citizens and residents free access to ChatGPT Plus through a partnership with OpenAI. The deal, announced by OpenAI and the Maltese government, gives residents one year of free ChatGPT Plus after completing an AI literacy course. The course was developed by the University of Malta. …
Anthropic has agreed terms on a new $30bn funding round that values the artificial intelligence company at $900bn, surpassing rival OpenAI’s current valuation of $852bn. The Financial Times reports that investment firms Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital will co-lead the round, with each likely contributing $2bn or more. The deal is expected to …
Apple is preparing a major overhaul of its Siri assistant in iOS 27, centering on a standalone Siri app with built-in privacy controls. Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that the new app will let users set conversations to auto-delete after 30 days, one year, or never. Apple positions this as a systemic privacy protection rather …
A California jury has rejected all of Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft, and other defendants after a three-week trial in Oakland. The jury reached its unanimous verdict in under two hours. The case centered on Musk’s claim that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman had “stolen a charity” by transforming OpenAI …