OpenAI in focus after launching direct competitor to Amazon-backed Anthropic
OpenAI announced a preview of Operator, an artificial intelligence agent, that will collaborate with a wide range of commerce-driven companies.
This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage
In this edition of TC's AI newsletter, This Week in AI, we talk about OpenAI's new Stargate joint venture and what it means for AI rivals.
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FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between Big Tech
FTC examines AI deals between Microsoft & OpenAI, Amazon, Google & Anthropic
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday found that the partnerships between Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ), Amazon ( NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet's ( NASDAQ: GOOGL ) ( NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google with OpenAI and Anthropic allows for the potential of the artificial intelligence (AI) developers being "fully acquired" by the tech giants.
Google invests further $1bn in OpenAI rival Anthropic
The new tranche of money from Google into Anthropic adds to a total investment of $8bn from Amazon, the ecommerce group’s largest-ever venture investment, announced over the past 18 months. Amazon is also working to embed the Claude models into the next-generation version of its Alexa speaker.
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Anthropic Snags Another $1B From Amazon; OpenAI Joins Data Center Push
Competitors Anthropic and OpenAI continue to refuse to take a back seat to each other when it comes to headline-grabbing news. We take a look at what they're up to now.
Why DeepSeek drama is positive for Amazon and negative for Microsoft: Oppenheimer
Overall, the analysts view DeepSeek’s emergence as a “negative for AI training and positive for inferencing infrastructure”, highlighting potential beneficiaries such as NET, DOCN, and EQIX.
Google to invest fresh $1 bln in OpenAI rival Anthropic, FT reports
Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into AI startup Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Democratic lawmakers pen letter accusing Meta, OpenAI, Google and more of trying to 'buy favor' with Trump
Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.
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FTC points at partnerships between AI leaders and cloud service providers, suggesting they could be subject to antitrust scrutiny
Specifically, the report mentions OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft and Anthropic's deals with Amazon and Google as potentially having an outsize impact on the broader industry. "For an ...
New Surface Pro details emerge as Microsoft prepares to downgrade Windows 10 and OpenAI is accused of cheating on AI benchmarks
New Surface devices are on the way and the mystery of an Xbox controller listing has been solved. We also saw OpenAI accused of cheating on benchmark tests recently.
OpenAI Introduces Operator To Automate Specific Tasks
OpenAI added to its ChatGPT a feature to automate tasks such as planning vacations, filling out forms, making restaurant reservations and ordering groceries. TakeAway Points: Operator, dubbed “an agent that can go to the web to accomplish tasks for you,