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Anthropic's annual revenue run rate reportedly hits $65 billion
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reportedly reached $65 billion, up sharply ahead of its planned IPO.
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Nine items on AI-lab finance and safety, engineering leadership, and AI policy, plus dev-tools and fintech notes, and a wildcard on the universe's faint red dots.
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Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reportedly reached $65 billion, up sharply ahead of its planned IPO.
OpenAI launched a ChatGPT version for 13-to-17-year-olds with age detection, parental controls, and content guardrails.
Newsletter examines why a wave of CTOs and VPs of Engineering are stepping away from senior leadership roles.
Column compares New York and Hollywood as case studies in the power and limits of network effects.
Guest essay from AI policy researchers lists 23 recommendations governments could adopt regardless of how AI progresses.
Willison notes that Modular's Mojo programming language, aimed at AI and systems work, is now open source.
AWS extended its Amazon Quick agent into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Microsoft 365 users.
Stockholm-based Quartr raised $18 million to expand its AI-ready investor relations data platform.
New Webb telescope research suggests some "little red dots" may be ordinary galaxies whose faint edges fade from view.