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Anthropic takes aim at biotech with Claude for Life Sciences
Anthropic PBC has had a busy start to the week, launching a new tool called Claude for Life Sciences to help with scientific research, and expanding the availability of its Claude Code agentic coding tool to the web and its mobile application. Claude for Life Sciences might be the more interesting of the two announcements, ...
Encord creates a new method for training powerful multimodal AI models on a single GPU
Artificial intelligence data annotation startup Encord, officially known as Cord Technologies Inc., wants to break down barriers to training multimodal AI models. To do that, it has just released what it says is the world’s largest open-source multimodal dataset to help developers of all shapes and sizes build more sophisticated AI systems. Along with the ...
Kong debuts tools for metering and monetizing APIs and AI agents
The API technology Kong Inc. announced a flurry of innovations this week at its annual developer conference, headlined by a new offering that enables companies to make money from their application programming interfaces, data streams and artificial intelligence models. The new offering is called Kong Konnect Metering and Billing, and it’s powered by technology from ...
Anthropic’s Skills for Claude helps AI agents perform certain tasks better than before
Anthropic PBC wants to make artificial intelligence agents more effective when it comes to doing real work, and its latest idea is to provide them with additional “skills” that can help them when assigned a very specific task. The company announced Skills for Claude today, explaining that it’s a tool that comes with various folders ...
Google’s DeepMind and CFS are building an AI plasma control system for nuclear fusion
Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit is partnering with the nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC to see if it can help it generate almost unlimited amounts of clean energy using its most advanced artificial intelligence models. DeepMind will help the energy startup to manage, and perhaps even improve, its soon-to-be-launched Sparc reactor, which is ...
Microsoft- and Nvidia-backed AI consortium buys Aligned Data Centers for $40B
An artificial intelligence infrastructure consortium led by Microsoft Corp., Nvidia Corp. and BlackRock Inc. today announced it’s planning to buy Aligned Data Centers LLC in a deal valued at about $40 billion. It’s one of the largest-ever acquisitions of data centers, designed to secure vast and highly coveted AI computing capacity for the consortium’s members. ...
AI startup Viven raises $35M to create digital twins that fill in for absent team members
An artificial intelligence startup called Viven is pitching the idea of digital twins of enterprise employees that can aid in collaboration after raising $35 million in seed funding. The round, announced today, was led by Khosla Ventures and saw participation from Foundation Capital, FPV Ventures, Operator Collective and a number of angel investors. Viven, officially ...
Meta to use Arm’s energy-efficient Neoverse GPUs for some AI workloads
Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s working with the British chip designer Arm Holdings Plc and will use its processors to help scale the artificial intelligence systems that drive some of the personalization features on applications such as Facebook and Instagram. The social media giant’s AI-based search ranking and recommendation systems will both be powered ...
MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor gets $11M to build more power-efficient AI chips
Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Playground Global, and saw participation from Jimco Technology Ventures, Milemark-Capital and Shin-etsu. The startup, which likes to go by the name Vertical, was spun out ...
Vantaca raises $300M+ to automate community management with agentic AI
Community association management software provider Vantaca LLC has closed on a bumper $300 million-plus funding round, demonstrating that the potential benefits of artificial intelligence automation are not limited to enterprise and consumer software. Today’s round was led by Cove Hill Partners and saw participation from existing backer JMI Equity, raising the company’s valuation to $1.25 ...