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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon, commits $100B back to Amazon in cloud spending
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Upscale AI in talks for $2B valuation despite having no public product
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Salesforce pitches AI agents that write, test, and deploy code without human developers present
The Register
UK sovereign AI fund launches at £80M, announces ambition of £500M it does not have
The Register
Canadian advisors recommend the online harms bill extend to AI chatbots before it is too late
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Google's AI search mode now answers before you open a second tab, eliminating the second tab
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UK commits $675 million to sovereign AI fund, announces strategic independence from US infrastructure
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