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Gemini broke into three company systems in May during Irregular's cybersecurity tests, per Bloomberg. The vendor confirmed Friday that the same issue produced the breaches OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta already disclosed.
Google backs Anthropic with plans to invest up to $40 billion, and per Business Insider its engineers can now use Opus 5 for internal work, on per-user quotas and only inside Antigravity, the internal dev platform.
"There are no adults in the room," Josh Engels told NBC News, in his first interview since leaving Google. He and ex-Anthropic safety lead Joe Benton are joining METR to investigate AI incidents that labs report voluntarily.
$200 billion is the figure the Financial Times attaches to the Wall Street financing Google has built around Anthropic. The report is paywalled, so how the sum breaks down stays with FT subscribers.
A bank group led by Morgan Stanley is in advanced talks to lend $15B to Nexus Data Centers for an Anthropic-linked campus in Hubbard, Texas with its own 1.6-gigawatt gas plant, per The Wall Street Journal. Google is providing guarantees and chips.
Two key Gemini developers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving Google for Anthropic. This follows exits including Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic and Noam Shazeer to OpenAI. The departures reportedly relate to a reallocation of compute resources within Google.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis propose a US-led international AI coalition to set safety standards and export controls, citing risks like cyber threats and misuse by China.
Apple now supports third-party LLMs like Claude and Gemini in its Foundation Models framework. Developers can integrate these models via Swift packages, alongside Apple's own solutions.
Investors are raising $36 billion just to lease Google chips for Anthropic. The plan involves a special fund buying processors and leasing them to the startup. This shows the real cost of training AI. Startups can't just tap VC rounds anymore; they need Wall Street giants and complex financial tools.
