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Google to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic as search giant spreads its AI bets
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks on an artificial intelligence panel during Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on in San Francisco, Sept. 4, 2025. Chance Yeh | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the companies confirmed on Friday, as tech giants […]
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20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise concern that AI-driven labor crisis is here
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Getty Images | Reuters The more than 20,000 potential job cuts Meta and Microsoft revealed on Thursday, months after Amazon announced its most widespread layoffs ever, may only be the beginning. The same companies that are collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year […]
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Meta will cut 10% of workforce as company pushes deeper into AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, United States, on February 19, 2026. Jon Putman | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, equaling about 8,000 jobs, as it continues […]
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OpenAI announces GPT-5.5, its latest artificial intelligence model
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a media tour of a Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5, which the company says is better at coding, using computers and pursuing deeper research capabilities. The launch comes less […]
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Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative
Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia are among hundreds of websites and apps where Meta plans to capture employee keystrokes and mouse clicks as part of a project to train its artificial intelligence models, according to internal messages viewed by CNBC. A new employee tracking tool, dubbed Model Capability Initiative (MCI), allows Meta to observe and collect […]
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Google unveils chips for AI training and inference in latest shot at Nvidia
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a meeting with France’s President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those […]
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Trump recounts Tim Cook call to ‘kiss my ass,’ in stark look at White House dealmaking
Apple CEO Tim Cook laughs with President Donald Trump during a meeting in the White House, Washington, March 6, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump praised Tim Cook in a lengthy Truth Social post on Tuesday, calling the outgoing Apple CEO an “incredible guy” and boasting about how Cook appealed to him when […]
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Trump says Anthropic is shaping up and a deal is ‘possible’ for Department of Defense use
President Donald Trump on Tuesday told CNBC that “it’s possible” there will be a deal allowing Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models to be used within the Department of Defense. “They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them, and I think they’re shaping up,” Trump said […]
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Apple incoming CEO John Ternus faces a defining challenge: Fixing the company’s AI strategy
John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc., during an Apple event in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple has maintained its dominance in consumer devices and built up a $4 trillion market cap despite largely sitting on the sidelines of the […]
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Amazon to invest up to another $25 billion in Anthropic as part of AI infrastructure deal
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. CNBC Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it’s poured into the artificial intelligence startup in recent years, as part of an expanded agreement to […]
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