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OpenAI has spent roughly $6.4 billion in stock to buy three startups over the last 16 months, while its smaller rival Anthropic has done barely any deals.
But Anthropic, recently valued at $170 billion in a funding round, told investment bankers in recent weeks that it is getting ready to move off the sidelines and do more acquisitions, according to people who have spoken to its executives. It is considering potential M&A targets that could boost its artificial intelligence models and products as well as t
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Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered expectations for how quickly it can get customers to spend money on these newer products, known as agents. Multiple Microsoft divisions, for instance, have lowered... Read more âș
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Googleâs efforts to sell or lease its artificial intelligence server chips so they can run in any companyâs data centerâand not just in Google Cloudâhave generated headlines, stock moves and a noteworthy response from AI chip leader Nvidia. Itâs not lost on Nvidia that two of the worldâs best AI models, from Google and Anthropic, were developed fully or partly using AI server chips made by Google rather than with... Read more âș
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Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be Anthropicâs first acquisition, according to the person. The acquisition would give Anthropic, which already has been using Bun... Read more âș
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Meta is hiring one of Appleâs top designers, Alan Dye, who ran the companyâs user interface design team, Bloomberg reported. Longtime designer Stephen Lemay will take his spot at Apple, the news outlet reported. Appleâs design team has suffered from regular bouts of turnover since the companyâs ... Read more âș
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Three years after the U.S.âs sweeping export restrictions that cut off Chinese access to AI chips, China has managed to turn the situation around. For the next five years, it will have more AI chips than its companies need. The excessive supply is a combination of local chipmakers catching up and tech companies stockpiling Nvidia chips via both the open and black market, according to estimates from investment bank Jefferies. Read more âș
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Moore Threads, a Chinese chip designer blacklisted by the U.S., drew frenzied demand from retail investors last week in its initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Its share offering was more than 4,000 times oversubscribed, according to an exchange filing. Moore Threads, which ... Read more âș
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