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OpenAI and Anthropic are arch enemies whose leaders can’t stand each other. But the two foes have formed an unholy alliance in Washington in the interest of self-preservation. With the Trump administration set to finalize its framework for regulating and evaluating “frontier models” by August 1, the two leading AI developers are quietly lobbying D.C. on a shared agenda: making sure lagging competitors like Meta and SpaceXAI also have to comply with government reviews of their models, and raising alarms abou
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Anthropic’s models may be unparalleled at coding, but they’re less capable of powering AI voice and chat applications for customer service than other AI providers. That’s according to data from NiCE, a customer service software provider whose clients include Toyota, Allianz, Nestle and Frontier Airlines.Anthropic’s models have a relatively long “time to first token,” the time it takes them to begin generating a response after receiving a request, said Neeraj... Read more ›
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David Richardson, an early Amazon Web Services employee who rejoined the cloud unit last September to lead a key AI agent-building product, left in April after eight months in the role, according to people with knowledge of the matter and his updated LinkedIn profile. Richardson was vice ... Read more ›
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OpenAI said Tuesday that an AI agent it developed went rogue last week and hacked into the systems of AI model repository Hugging Face. OpenAI said that it was testing the agent, powered by its most advanced publicly available model, GPT-5.6 Sol, and other unreleased models to see how well it ... Read more ›
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Supermicro said Tuesday it had received new orders worth more than $60 billion in its June quarter, sending its shares up 17% after normal trading hours. The Nvidia server producer made the announcement in a preliminary business update ahead of the company’s official earnings release Aug. 11. It ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service that would help cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models. The incubator, called AAI Labs, is part of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering team, which Meta set up in March and allows employees to pitch AI-powered products and services for internal use—and possibly later release them to the public. Once a... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, check out our story from earlier today about Mercor. My colleague Cory and I reported that Mercor generated $614 million in gross revenue in the first half of this year, overwhelmingly from AI foundation model customers. That concentration highlights the risk to Mercor’s business if any of the big AI firms, which include OpenAI and Anthropic, switch to a rival.Of course, Mercor’s co-founders are... Read more ›
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Who says software is dead? Jack Dorsey’s Block today unveiled a new “collaboration workspace”—software people can use to communicate and work together—which Dorsey says aims to reduce “our dependency on Slack and GitHub.” That’s a bit of a provocative statement from Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter and therefore knows a thing or two about communication platforms (even if he was a dismal CEO of Twitter). Known as Buzz, the new... Read more ›
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OpenAI said on Tuesday that it was adding two new members to its board of directors, Nubank CEO David Vélez and Bank of New York Mellon CEO Robin Vince. “David and Robin are exceptional leaders who have used technology to reshape financial services and expand opportunity at global scale,” Bret ... Read more ›
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The U.S. and China are set to hold talks over AI in September, as the tech rivalry between the two nations escalates, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the Trump administration’s first official AI-focused talks with Beijing. The exact dates haven’t been ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s AI company, SpaceXAI, is laying the groundwork for at least one new large-scale data center in Texas, three people with knowledge of the effort said. Such a move could substantially expand SpaceX’s AI computing capacity outside its existing data center hub in Memphis, Tenn. An expansion could position SpaceXAI to be a major cloud provider, as its existing AI business has struggled to gain traction and the company... Read more ›
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