A Model Name Appears in Microsoft’s Cloud Catalog Before Anyone Announces It
A model identifier showed up in a Microsoft Azure catalog and in a public record left by a routing tool, and the appearance was enough to generate a release announcement…
Anthropic Opens a Faster Setting for Its Top Model and Prices It Higher
Anthropic has removed the waiting list from the fast mode of its most capable model, making a setting that trades cost for speed available to developers and subscribers who had…
Anthropic Investors Weigh a Lower Valuation for Its Coming Listing
The revenue number Anthropic showed prospective investors this week was large and the growth rate attached to it was smaller than the one before, and that combination has some of…
Musk Says SpaceX May Follow Anthropic and Open Itself to Outside Review
Elon Musk said on October 16 that SpaceX may adopt the same kind of independent evaluation that Anthropic has begun to accept, a remark that extends a practice built for…
Musk Floats a Shopping Platform After Amazon Blocks Grok Orders
Amazon’s restrictions on an artificial intelligence agent that placed orders on its site drew a one-line answer from Elon Musk on October 16: “Maybe we should start a shopping platform…
Anthropic Hands an Outside Evaluator Employee-Level Access to Its Systems
Anthropic said on October 16 that it has given an outside evaluator the kind of access it normally reserves for its own employees, an arrangement the company described as a…
Cognition Meters Model Access by Engineer Output
The Information reported on October 15 that Cognition has tightened the amount of model usage it hands to its own engineers, routing expensive calls to a smaller group and pushing…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Outruns Apple’s M5 Max in Local Agent Tests
The first independent tests of Nvidia’s RTX Spark, a processor the company has built for laptops, appeared on October 15, and they measured something the PC industry has not traditionally…
Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation
Ramp announced on October 15 that it had raised $1.85 billion, four months after a smaller round that valued the business at a fraction of what it is worth today.…
Blackstone Builds a $200 Billion Data Center Portfolio
Blackstone has spent the past two years buying the parts of the artificial intelligence economy that sit behind the chip, and the total now stands at $200 billion. The figure…
