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Anthropic’s cybersecurity employees have probably spent the past week scolding their colleagues. After accidentally publishing a blog post last week containing details of its next flagship AI model, Claude Mythos, the company on Tuesday said it had accidentally leaked some of the source code powering its popular Claude Code coding agent.In short, someone at Anthropic mistakenly included the...
The early batch of ads running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT has drawn a lot of attention in recent weeks. But marketers have also been trying out another new form of conversational ads offered by an existing advertising heavyweight: Amazon.
Even there, marketers are only starting to get a read on how much traction these ads are getting. For Paladone, an Amazon seller with around $20 million to $30...
Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm KKR, the company said Wednesday. Qube Research and Technologies, a London-based quantitative investment firm, and ...
Iran on Tuesday threatened to attack the facilities of U.S. tech companies across the Middle East in what it called retaliatory strikes for the U.S.’s efforts to kill Iranian leadership. In a statement Tuesday, Iran’s government-owned Tasmin News Agency said that its military would start strikes ...
Happy days are here again! Stocks have rallied, thanks to upbeat headlines concerning the Iran war. Don’t get too comfortable—things are likely to change quickly. In fact, the Iranians are threatening to attack U.S. tech facilities in the Middle East. Meanwhile, we got news today on a variety of fronts concerning Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic (see below for more details). Among other things,...
Sequoia Capital on Tuesday named Doug Leone, an investor who has been at the firm since 1988, as chairman. After stepping back from making new investments in 2022, Leone will once again participate in new deals, the firm said. A person familiar with Leone’s thinking said that he has more time to ...
Sequoia Capital on Tuesday named Doug Leone, an investor who has been at the firm since 1988, as chairman. After stepping back from making new investments in 2022, Leone will once again participate in new deals, the firm said.
As rogue AI agents cause security problems and product outages even at sophisticated companies such as Meta and Amazon, major firms such as ServiceNow as well as startups are developing new AI to monitor and stop them.The new AI, also known as guardian AI agents, comes in the form of a cloud application and can be laborious to set up. To use a guardian AI app, customers need to connect it to...
Three executives were at a health and fitness industry conference last March, but it was in Las Vegas, so they were drinking old-fashioneds when they hatched a cross-border deal to create a fitness company worth $7.5 billion that spanned subscription and scheduling apps, plus equipment.The three whiskey drinkers were Fritz Lanman, CEO of Playlist, the company behind fitness subscription apps...
Nvidia said it has invested $2 billion in chip maker Marvell as part of a “strategic partnership” in which Marvell will supply chips that work with Nvidia technology. The investment is the latest in a series Nvidia has made lately—typically at around $2 billion—with companies that work with the ...