Anthropic can finally start writing checks to a group of book authors and publishers who sued the AI lab for copyright infringement. A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement in a copyright class action lawsuit, Reuters reported. Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern
Every once in a while, a Chinese company releases a new AI model and Americans freak out. That’s what happened last week when China’s Moonshot AI unveiled the Kimi K3, which surpassed a number of notable benchmarks. By most accounts, the Kimi K3 rivals some leading US models for a fraction of the cost. The
How do you measure whether an AI is really good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside recently emailed me with a fascinating real-world benchmark. Instead of giving the AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, and Kimi bet on World Cup matches using live odds from
Microsoft appears to be preparing its sales team to be more competitive with the other major players in the artificial intelligence industry. In an internal meeting on Tuesday, company executives outlined a plan for vendors to negatively compare artificial intelligence products from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to their own, according to a new
While many top-tier venture firms continue to raise massively larger funds, Greylock Ventures, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most prestigious venture firms, is intentionally bucking the trend of increasing fund size. On Tuesday, the 61-year-old company announced it had raised an 18th fund of $1.5 billion. The figure is 50% higher than its previous
AI models are becoming more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big unknown. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have created independent companies dedicated to deploying AI engineers in their clients’ offices, a bid to help companies figure out how to use their AI
