Amazon increases investment in AI company Anthropic to $8 billion

Amazon has announced an additional $4 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion while maintaining a minority stake. The investment marks Amazon’s largest outside investment in its three-decade history. As part of the agreement, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become Anthropic’s primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic will …

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Study reveals capabilities and limitations of Claude’s “computer use“ feature

A new study by Singapore’s National University Show Lab evaluates Anthropic’s Computer Use mode, which enables the AI model Claude to interact with computers through standard user interfaces. According to VentureBeat’s Ben Dickson, the system shows promise in handling complex tasks involving web searches, workflow automation, and office productivity but frequently makes basic mistakes humans …

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AnyChat unifies access to multiple AI language models

AnyChat, a new development tool, enables seamless integration of multiple large language models (LLMs) through a single interface. Developer Ahsen Khaliq, machine learning growth lead at Gradio, created the platform to allow users to switch between models like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Meta’s LLaMA without being restricted to one provider, as reported by …

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Anthropic releases AI prompt engineering automation tools

Anthropic has launched new developer tools to automate and improve AI prompt engineering in its developer console. According to VentureBeat reporter Michael Nuñez, the suite includes a “Prompt Improver” that automatically refines instructions for the Claude AI model, applying best practices and chain-of-thought reasoning techniques. The company claims the tools increased accuracy by 30% in …

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Claude AI chatbot launches desktop apps and dictation

Anthropic has released desktop apps for Mac and Windows for its AI chatbot Claude, bringing Claude’s capabilities to users’ preferred work environments, TechCrunch reports. The apps are available in public beta for both free and premium users. Anthropic also introduced a dictation tool allowing users to upload voice messages up to 10 minutes long for …

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Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku with increased prices

Anthropic has released its newest and smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, which outperforms the previous flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, on various benchmarks at a lower cost, according to the company. However, Anthropic has increased the pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its enhanced capabilities, with input tokens now costing $1 per million …

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Claude Computer Use enables remote code execution via prompt injection

Anthropic’s recently released Claude Computer Use feature allows Claude to control a computer by taking screenshots, running bash commands, and more. However, this also introduces severe prompt injection risks, as Claude could be exploited to run malicious code autonomously. A post on ”Embrace the Red” demonstrated this by the author crafting a malicious webpage that …

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Hands-on with Claude’s powerful “Computer Use” abilities

Anthropic’s latest AI feature “Computer Use” can demonstrate remarkable capabilities in interacting with computers, according to a recent hands-on experience by Thariq Shihipar. While the system is still slow, unreliable, and prone to taking over the user’s computer, it represents an exciting step forward in AI-driven computer interaction, write Shihipar. Claude Computer Use excels at …

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“Computer Use”: Anthropic’s Claude can now control your PC

Anthropic has unveiled an updated version of its AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet. According to the company, the model can now control desktop applications and perform PC tasks. It uses a new “Computer Use” feature, which is in public beta. Anthropic emphasizes that the technology is still error-prone and recommends developers initially test it only …

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Anthropic lowers costs for batch processing

Anthropic has launched a new, more affordable batch processing API for businesses. According to a VentureBeat report by Michael Nuñez, the new Message Batches API allows companies to process up to 10,000 queries asynchronously within a 24-hour window, at half the cost of standard API calls. Both input and output tokens are 50% cheaper compared …

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