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Jeff Bezos‑Backed Anthropic Co‑Founder Says DeepSeek Hype Is 'Overblown,' Says R1 Trails US Labs By 'Six To Eight Months'
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 8:11am | 574Anthropic co‑founder Jack Clark says Silicon Valley can dial down the alarms over China's latest AI darling, DeepSeek. What Happened: Speaking on a Hill & Valley Forum panel hosted by Lightspeed's Ravi Mhatre, Clark called the buzz "perhaps a bit overblown." He said DeepSeek's new model looks "...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Warns US Lawmakers Are Fueling Rise Of China's Huawei With Their Chip Export Bans
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 11:05pm | 629On Thursday, Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang told U.S. lawmakers that export restrictions on AI chips may be helping China's Huawei Technologies gain a competitive foothold in the global artificial intelligence race. What Happened: In a closed-door meeting with the House Foreign...
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Google Faces Growing Threat As Chatbots Reshape How Users Search For Brands: Are ChatGPT, Claude And Others AI Bots Set To Be The 'Ultimate' Influencers?
Monday, April 28, 2025 - 3:03am | 660As AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Perplexity reshape how users search for information, brands are adjusting their strategies to maintain visibility in this new search environment, which is increasingly displacing traditional search engines like Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:...
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Sundar Pichai Jokes About 'Artificial Pokémon Intelligence' After Gemini Pro Beats Claude At Classic GameBoy Title
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 5:03am | 606Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) chief executive Sundar Pichai is touting a new kind of "API" — what he jokingly calls Artificial Pokémon Intelligence — after the company's Gemini 2.5 Pro model cleared a fifth gym badge in the classic Game Boy title ‘Pokémon Red’. What...
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Nvidia, Alphabet To Back OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever's New AI Startup Safe Superintelligence: Report
Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 4:49pm | 814Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have reportedly decided to invest in the artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. What Happened: The specific terms of Nvidia's and Alphabet's investments in Safe...
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Anthropic Just Gave Claude Web Search Powers—Here's What It Means For AI Chatbot Wars Against ChatGPT, Gemini, And Mistral
Friday, March 21, 2025 - 1:05am | 521On Thursday, Anthropic, backed by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, announced that its Claude chatbot can now search the internet, bringing it in line with competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Mistral's Le Chat. What Happened...
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Amazon And Google Backed AI Firm Anthropic Secures $3.5 Billion At $61.5 Billion Valuation
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 9:36pm | 636Anthropic, a leading AI company backed by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, has raised $3.5 billion in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $61.5 billion. What Happened: The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners...
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Stripe's Payment Surge Puts Adyen, PayPal, Fiserv On Notice - AI, Stablecoins Fuel The Race
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 11:43am | 588Stripe just pulled off a massive growth spurt, and the payments giants should be paying attention. According to JPMorgan analyst Tien-tsin Huang, the private fintech powerhouse processed a staggering $1.4 trillion in volume last year, a 38% year-over-year jump that left competitors in the dust....
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Jeff Bezos-Backed Anthropic Pushes For Stronger US AI Safeguards, Saying Autocracies Like China, Russia Could Use AI To Expand Their Power: 'Some Very Dark Possibilities'
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 1:33am | 738Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for stronger U.S. AI safeguards, warning that autocratic regimes like China and Russia could use artificial intelligence to enhance their control and military capabilities. What Happened: During an interview with Hard Fork that was released on Saturday, Amodei...
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Snowflake Expands Microsoft, OpenAI Partnership: Will Include Other Prominent Models Like Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, And DeepSeek
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 4:52am | 662Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) unveiled its deeper partnership with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) during its earnings call after reporting better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. The data cloud company introduced its new artificial intelligence agent Cortex for enhanced productivity and data...
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Anthropic Releases 'Most Intelligent' LLM Yet: How Does It Compare To OpenAI, Deepseek?
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:51pm | 367The artificial intelligence industry is largely fragmented between many firms jockeying to be on the cutting edge of the technology. Progress is often benchmarked against competitors, as in the case of Anthropic with its new Claude 3.7 Sonnet. A Step Forward: Anthropic, the AI startup backed by...
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Jeff Bezos-Backed Anthropic Fights US Proposal Blocking Google From Investing In AI Startups, Says It Would Benefit Rivals OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 11:12pm | 656Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), has filed a plea with a federal court to dismiss a U.S. government proposal that would prevent Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google from investing in AI startups. The proposal is intended to...
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Lyft Q4 Earnings Preview: Streak Of Revenue, EPS Beats On The Line After Rival Uber's Strong Fourth Quarter
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 12:14pm | 900Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) could highlight more progress on autonomous vehicles when the company reports fourth-quarter financial results after market close Tuesday. Earnings Estimates: Analysts expect Lyft to report fourth-quarter revenue of $1.56 billion. That’s up from $1....
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Who Is Really Using AI? Jeff Bezos-Backed Anthropic Did A Study And This Is What They Found
Monday, February 10, 2025 - 11:11pm | 593Jeff Bezos-backed Anthropic's Economic Index report on Monday showed that AI adoption is booming in software development and technical writing, while jobs requiring physical labor remain largely unaffected. What Happened: The study analyzed millions of anonymized conversations on Claude...
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Meta AI Models 'Clearly Behind' DeepSeek, Says Analyst After Mark Zuckerberg Admits DeepSeek Did Some Novel Things 'We're Still Digesting'
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 8:36am | 966Piper Sandler’s research dated Feb. 4 has revealed a less optimistic outlook for Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) position in the artificial intelligence race. This comes as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings call stated that they are “still...