Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal…Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years.
AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It ”…they demonstrated two important qualities: perspective-taking and intellectual humility. Perspective-taking is the ability to genuinely inhabit another point of view. Not to debate it, not to tolerate it, but to actually inhabit it. Intellectual humility is the ability to recognize the edge of your own knowledge and sit with that discomfort rather than trying to rush to fill it.Both of these qualities are, at root, emotional skills. Perspective-taking requires genuine curiosity about minds other than your own. Intellectual humility requires a kind of emotional courage: the willingness to feel uncertain, even a little foolish, in the presence of something or someone that seems very sure of itself…”
Stanford Professor Targets $1 Billion Valuation For AI-for-Physiology Startup
Each Y Combinator batch I ask the startups what percent of their code is written by AI. It passed 75% at least a year ago, maybe two. https://t.co/UkimQlcAMj
OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
“…Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers…” (FT)
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals
Anthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
Elon Musk’s xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor…Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said.
Cursor In Talks to Raise $2 Billion at Over $50 Billion Value
AI chipmaker Cerebras files to go public after scrapping IPO plans last year
‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think
Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
OpenAI’s Codex Desktop can run your computer now – and has its own browser
Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion to Build Its Efforts in Space
NASA restarts work to support Europe’s uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses
“…The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh..The Mac Mini made up only about 3% of Apple’s Mac unit sales in the U.S. last year, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But in the past six months or so, it has become the must-have host for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents, such as OpenClaw.” (WSJ)
Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI (FT)
China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
How the JVM Works
We compile, run, and debug Java code all the time. But what exactly does the JVM do between compile and run?
Here’s the flow: Build: javac compiles your source code into platform-independent bytecode, stored as .class files, JARs, or modules.