Anthropic announces massive AI chip deal with Google

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Thursday it was expanding its use of Google cloud computing and specialized chips in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The arrangement will include Anthropic buying as many as one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are integrated circuits custom-designed by Google, according to the San Francisco-based startup. […]

Australia sues Microsoft over ‘misleading’ AI offer

Australia’s competition watchdog accused Microsoft on Monday of misleading people into paying for its AI assistant Copilot. The authority said it had filed a suit in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its parent Microsoft Corp. The software giant is accused of making “false or misleading” statements to around 2.7 million Australians who subscribe […]

Asian markets cool as Trump hails ties on Japan trip

Asian markets cooled off Tuesday after the previous day’s surge as traders digested Donald Trump’s visit to Asian ally Japan, ahead of his high-stakes talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week. The US president is due to meet Xi Thursday in South Korea, and rosy comments by Trump have fuelled optimism that the […]

Amazon to cut 30,000 office jobs: media reports

Amazon did not specify where the job cuts will be made – Copyright AFP ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Amazon will lay off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up investments in artificial intelligence, according to US media reports. Some 30,000 positions will be cut in a belt-tightening move […]

Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia

Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than seven million in English. […]