PwC expands Claude rollout to 30,000 US staff
PwC and Anthropic are turning their alliance into production work, from Claude Code delivery to M&A workflows and back-office redesign.
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View archive →Gates Foundation gives Anthropic a $200M AI brief
A four-year Gates Foundation partnership puts Claude into health, education, agriculture and disease-modeling work, with public datasets meant to reduce lock-in.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund profit rests on OpenAI
SoftBank booked a $46 billion Vision Fund gain, with $45 billion tied to OpenAI, making Masayoshi Son’s AI bet unusually concentrated.
Palo Alto finds 75 flaws with frontier AI
Palo Alto says Claude Mythos, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5-Cyber helped uncover 26 CVEs covering 75 flaws, while warning attackers may get similar power within months.
Fractile raises $220M to rethink inference chips
London startup Fractile raised a $220 million Series B led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund to attack the inference bottleneck with a memory-centric chip design.
Microsoft and SpaceX circle diffusion LLM startup Inception
Stanford spinout Inception is drawing takeover interest at a price above $1 billion because its diffusion-based language model promises parallel token generation.
Recursive raises $650M to pursue self-improving AI
Recursive Superintelligence emerged with a $650 million round and a $4.65 billion valuation to pursue recursive self-improvement rather than a conventional product roadmap.
Apple works on App Store rules for AI agents
Apple is reportedly designing a compliant path for AI agent and vibe-coding apps after earlier App Store rejections exposed a conflict with dynamic-code rules.
Anthropic funding talks point to a $900B valuation
Bloomberg-reported talks would put Anthropic on a dramatically higher valuation track as compute commitments and a possible October IPO shape the financing.
Vidu Claw pushes AI video ads toward outcome pricing
ShengShu Technology’s Vidu Claw packages planning, scripting, storyboards and video generation into an AI CMO workflow built on OpenClaw.