Replit Says It Ended Its Anthropic Deal. People Close to Anthropic Say It Didn’t.
Amjad Masad had been onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt for most of an hour on Friday when he was asked about the models inside his company’s product. Replit, the coding platform…
AWS Says Its AI Servers Pay for Themselves in Under Three Years
John Felton, the chief financial officer of Amazon Web Services, gave an interview to Axios this week that read as an answer to a question investors have been asking for…
ChatGPT Can Now Drive Chrome Tabs, and OpenAI Is Giving It to Free Users
OpenAI’s post on X went up on Thursday evening, in the flat register the company uses for product news: “We’re bringing the power of computer use to anyone who uses…
Claude Traces the Seeds of NIST’s Curves to a 1997 Clock Reading
For twenty-five years the number sat in a federal standard without an explanation: SEED = C49D3608 86E70493 6A6678E1 139D26B7 819F7E90. From that value, by a procedure published in 2000, the…
Taiwan Plans Supplier Parks in Texas, With Private Money and Public Backing
Kung Ming-hsin, Taiwan’s economy minister, described the problem this week in the plain terms of a purchasing manager. The companies that make the racks, the cables, the cooling manifolds and…
A Brazilian Court Tells Meta to Leave the Election Alone
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court moved on October 15, ten days before a runoff vote, with an order that leaves Meta little room to adjust what its platforms show. Judge Marco…
ChatGPT’s Ad Tools Accept a Customer Email List, a Reporter’s Test Shows
On October 15, 404 Media published an account of an experiment its reporter, Joseph Cox, ran inside ChatGPT’s advertising console. He uploaded a file of email addresses and phone numbers,…
Apple Tightens App Review Rules as Britain Presses on Contactless Payments
Apple rewrote two lines of its App Store rulebook on October 16, adding artificial intelligence to the list of tools developers must police and closing a door that some had…
Anthropic Takes a Draft AI Safety Bill to Congress, With a $1 Billion Trigger
On Capitol Hill, the folders that circulate in the office buildings along Independence Avenue are usually written by committee staff. A set of them that moved through meetings over the…
Anthropic Signs Its First Canadian Data Center Lease: 420 Megawatts for 20 Years
Point Tupper is a deep-water site on the Strait of Canso, in Cape Breton, where a pulp mill once ran and where the wind now blows hard enough that the…
