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Anthropic has been on a tear in adding features to its Claude AI agents for coding and other white-collar work. The Claude agents now offer many of the features that turned OpenClaw, an open-source tool for developing personal AI agents, into a sensation.Claude’s new features include the ability to take over a person’s computer to perform complex tasks using any application, which Anthropic...
A tidal wave of fast-growing AI startups has given venture capitalists many more shots to score winning investments. But competition to invest has never been more intense. That has made the partners who can secure stakes in sought-after startups all the more valuable.
The Information asked over two dozen founders and investors about the individuals best positioned to become general partners—the...
Investments in AI startups such as Mercor and Skild AI helped advance three of 16 finalists in last year’s list of Next General Partners to higher positions, including to the role of general partner in their firms.
These promotions reflect how AI continues to dominate venture capital investing. Last year’s finalists can’t credit just AI, however. Increased valuations for defense tech startup...
Talk about bad timing. Meta Platforms made a big splash on Tuesday night by disclosing new stock grants for senior executives that fully pay out only if the company’s market capitalization rises above $9.4 trillion by 2031, from $1.5 trillion now. Hours later, on Wednesday, we scooped the news that Meta was laying off hundreds of people. And hours after that, a jury in Los Angeles found Meta and...
The judge overseeing Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft ruled Wednesday that Musk’s damages expert, an economist at economic consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, is allowed to present his testimony at trial. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan, found that ...
Sierra, an AI startup led by ex-Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor, unveiled a new product called Ghostwriter that builds AI agents for tasks such as customer service based on natural language prompts. While other software providers offer similar tools, the self-service aspect of ...
Blackstone is close to a deal to buy Rowan Digital Infrastructure, a major U.S. data center developer that builds campuses for large cloud providers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.
The terms of the deal couldn’t be learned, but the company would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, people familiar with its financials said. The talks are ongoing...
SpaceX is likely to list the investment banks that are advising it on its mega initial public offering in alphabetical order on the prospectus, according to three people familiar with the process. That’s a departure from the norm, where the most senior bank is listed first on the filing in what ...
Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube harmed a user’s mental health through negligence, defective product design and a failure to warn of the dangers of their products, a jury found on Wednesday. The decision was a landmark that is likely to affect the outcome in thousands of other cases alleging ...
Amazon said customers can return items they bought on the commerce giant’s site at over 1,500 FedEx Office locations nationwide. Shoppers will be able to drop off unboxed items and won’t pay fees on the return. Encouraging customers to bring returns to drop-off points instead of having them ...