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Anthropic accused of ‘secret sabotage’ as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers
When Anthropic made its first Mythos-tier model available to the general public yesterday, called Claude Fable 5, Fortune reported it was a “considerable step” for the lab, coming just over a week after the company confidentially filed for IPO paperwork. It had initially deemed Mythos-class models too dangerous to release, citing their significantly enhanced ability…
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OpenAI and Nvidia CEOs didn’t flinch at Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, and now they’re paying up as their application numbers soar
When President Donald Trump suddenly imposed a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas last year, leading AI companies didn’t flinch. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC he was “glad to see President Trump making the moves he’s making,” and OpenAI’s Sam Altman said aligning financial incentives around skilled immigration “seems good” to him. Eight months…
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AI drug discovery leaders warn U.S. health funding cuts risk falling behind global rivals
Washington pulled tens of billions from national health funding just as healthcare and biotech hit its ChatGPT moment. At Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen this week, the people building AI drug discovery said (more or less) that the U.S. government picked the worst possible moment to blink. “Falling below the scientific intelligence of one’s adversary…
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From the Trump administration to Kevin O’Leary, there’s a new narrative that China is to blame for plummeting data center popularity
As negative sentiment toward data center construction reaches a fever pitch, some AI advocates are blaming China for emerging narratives around the rapid growth of the technology’s infrastructure—and the increased negative public attitude surrounding it. One of the people blaming China is billionaire investor Kevin O’Leary, who is backing a $100 billion data center project…
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A $7 billion horse race: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley battle for ‘lead left’ position ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two investment banks harboring the biggest market shares by far in tech IPOs, are now battling to lead looming debuts that promise the winners a pair of the richest profit pots in Wall Street history. Goldman already captured a huge prize by clinching the position of “lead left” book…
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Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45
An “infinite bowl-making machine” can make 500 salads, Tex-Mex, and poke bowls with the exact ingredients you want down to the personalized macros you’re tracking in one hour. A human worker can’t compare, according to entrepreneur Marc Lore. “I don’t know exactly how many a single person can do, but it’s not going to be…
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AI isn’t replacing Hyatt’s salespeople—it’s freeing up a full day of work every week, according to the CEO
Hyatt says its AI-powered sales tools are helping employees save roughly one day per week while increasing the company’s share of group bookings. AI helps the company’s sales team “be more efficient and effective to respond to the more than one and a half million RFPs we get every year from corporate customers,” said Hyatt…
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‘Not an Allbirds Moment’: Xbox’s new CEO says she is grounding the console in gaming roots, not AI
Asha Sharma believes Xbox can return to its winning ways by refocusing on its core gaming principles. That has been a top priority for Sharma since taking over as chief executive of Xboxin February, an appointment that surprised some industry insiders because of her non-gaming background and previous role leading AI initiatives for the 51-year-old…
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The AI industry spent years chasing bigger models. Now it’s chasing efficiency
After spending years racing to build ever-larger AI models, researchers and infrastructure providers are increasingly focused on a new problem: how to make those systems affordable enough to deploy at scale. Sara Hooker, cofounder and CEO of startup AI lab Adaption, told the audience at Fortune Brainstorm Tech on Tuesday that most of today’s AI…
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‘Getting control where we can’—Europe wants sovereign AI but most of the chips are from the U.S.
The promise of sovereign AI is that a country can keep its models, data, and compute power at home. But there’s one critical component that has to come from outside: the chips. “Today, there is no equivalent in Europe,” said Timothée Lacroix, cofounder and chief technology officer of French AI company Mistral AI, referring to…