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The White House asked US AI developers to voluntarily share early access to their frontier models with federal agencies. The order arrives amid intensifying US-China competition and is set to reshape Washington's dialogue with leading labs on safety and national security.
Alphabet will ask shareholders to authorise issuing up to $80 billion in new shares. The company says most of the proceeds will fund Google Cloud data centres and custom TPU chips. CFO Anat Ashkenazi said the spending is needed to 'build out a durable AI franchise'.
AI firm Anthropic said it confidentially filed its IPO S-1 prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move clears a major step in the race against OpenAI and will gauge Wall Street investor appetite for primary-market exposure to artificial intelligence.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, has been valued at US$965 billion in its latest financing round, surpassing rival OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI start-up, Straits Times Business reported.