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New from 404 Media: hundreds of websites are trying to block the AI company Anthropic from scraping their content, but are blocking the wrong bots, in part because AI companies are constantly launching new scrapers. Cat and mouse game t.co

549 likes11 repliesPosted Jul 29, 2024

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I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

ANTHROPIC VALUATION: $965B WALMART VALUATION: $940B ANTHROPIC REVENUE: $20B WALMART REVENUE: $725B BUT AI IS NOT A BUBBLE, RIGHT?

We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.

As part of our $600B commitment, Mac mini will be produced in the US for the first time later this year! We're accelerating our progress even further— producing more AI servers and opening an all-new Apple Advanced Manufacturing Center for hands-on training.

We’ve raised $30B in funding at a $380B post-money valuation. This investment will help us deepen our research, continue to innovate in products, and ensure we have the resources to power our infrastructure expansion as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are.

Disney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI. They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. (Source: t.co

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New from 404 Media: gamers are renting out their powerful GPUs to generate AI porn. A company called Salad gives the gamers Fortnite skins/Roblox gift cards; Salad then offers their compute power to people who want to generate AI images, including porn t.co

In the world of brand safety, black box algorithms are deciding what is safe, what is not. On top of that, some companies explicitly saying exclude important social issues. It is not the journalism. It is the ad industry that is failing it. t.co