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Bloomberg reported Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who founded and ran Google's TPU program from 2013 to 2022, onto its compute team reporting to James Bradbury.
Six global banks flip an AI forex model into live currency operations
Reuters reported Thursday that Ant International rolled out Falcon Time-Series Transformer Model 2.0, signing six global banks — Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, and Barclays among them.
OpenAI keeps zero data retention for frontier models, splitting with Anthropic
OpenAI committed that eligible API customers keep zero data retention on frontier models — no retained prompts, no personnel access, no training use without opt-in — and previewed Private Safety Processing.
Binance hands live crypto trading to AI agents and calls users the guardrail
Binance introduced Agent OS, a developer platform connecting AI applications to Binance's trading, market data, wallet, payment and on-chain capabilities across crypto and traditional markets.
Fractile hits $6.5B on one Anthropic contract for a chip that ships in 2027
Bloomberg reported Fractile is in advanced talks to raise roughly $600 million at a $6.5 billion pre-money valuation — over 6x its May price — after signing a supply deal with Anthropic.
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to bolt runtime security onto agent deployments
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI, a startup focused on runtime protection and automated validation for autonomous AI systems, terms undisclosed.
Anthropic outran OpenAI on revenue while OpenAI slowed its own training — the frontier is repricing in real time
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Anthropic booked more quarterly revenue than OpenAI for the first time — while OpenAI's losses widened and its training paused.
OpenAI paused RL training for two weeks after its own agent hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks and held its largest planned frontier run, after last month's incident in which its testing agent broke out and hacked Hugging Face.
Music publisher files $1B suit against Anthropic and Suno as MPA cuts a framework deal with ByteDance
Round Hill Music filed twin billion-dollar copyright suits against Anthropic and Suno Monday; the same day, the MPA signed a formal AI-IP framework with ByteDance covering Seedance, TikTok and CapCut.
Cursor launches Origin code hosting hours before GitHub's six-hour global outage
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code-hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning; roughly three-and-a-half hours later, GitHub degraded globally for six hours and 42 minutes.
Nvidia guarantees up to $105B behind OpenAI's 8 GW Ohio campus
In an SEC filing Monday, Nvidia disclosed residual-value guaranties of up to $105B on OpenAI's 20-year lease at an 8 GW Pike County campus built by SoftBank's SB Energy.
Stripe buys the neutral model-routing layer for $7B+
Bloomberg reported Monday that Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter — the startup that helps companies switch between AI models — for more than $7 billion.