Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled an AI agent aimed at helping businesses carry out day-to-day operations, positioning the social media giant as a player in the enterprise AI market. Announced at the company’s WhatsApp-focused Conversations conference in London, the new product expands on existing business messaging services by enabling “agentic” capabilities in which the assistant…
AI giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, teeing up what could become a watershed moment for Wall Street’s AI frenzy. The move sets up a high-stakes test of whether investor appetite for the AI revolution that has reshaped white-collar work around the world can match the sky-high expectations surrounding the…
Anthropic has raised US$65-billion at a post-money valuation of $965-billion, as it seeks to expand computing capacity to meet growing demand for chatbot Claude and scale its products. The new valuation after the series-H funding round puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI, which was last valued at $852-billion post-money in March. “Since our series-G in…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft is in talks to supply its custom artificial intelligence chips to Anthropic, CNBC confirmed on Thursday. A deal would represent a…
Recent reports indicate that Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI models, has agreed to pay Google a staggering $200 billion over the next five years for access to cloud servers and specialized chips. This follows an earlier announcement this month regarding a partnership that granted the AI startup significant infrastructure resources. This massive agreement…
Amazon and Anthropic have dramatically expanded their strategic partnership, moving beyond simple venture funding into a massive, decade-long infrastructure and capital commitment. In an announcement today, Amazon revealed a new $5 billion direct investment in the AI safety and research firm, accompanied by an unprecedented $20 billion in milestone-based payments. This follows two previous $4…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable”…
Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said, as the company and its rivals respond to a shortage of AI chips needed to power and develop more advanced AI systems. The plans are in early stages and the company may still decide to only buy AI chips and not design…
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent and US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with bank CEOs this week to warn of cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, two sources familiar with the matter have said. Anthropic launched the powerful Mythos model earlier this week but stopped short of a broad…
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled “Transforming Business through AI” in Tokyo, on Feb. 3, 2025. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images With Anthropic gaining momentum in the booming AI market, OpenAI sent a memo to investors this week slamming its chief…
