Anthropic closes in on $20B round

Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reportsDue to demand from investors the company had to raise twice the amount it had set out to receive. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding. just five months agoBut intense competition among frontier…

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San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens

Saturday’s march in support of California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd – San Francisco Chronicle counts There were about three dozen attendees, as well as a dozen other vocal counter-protesters. To be fair, organizer Derrick Kauffman did Only “a few dozen” were predicted to be present in advance.. But the “March for Billionaires”…

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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark Measuring the capabilities of AI agents on professional tasks such as law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were quite disappointing, with every major lab scoring below 25%, so we concluded that lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI capabilities…

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