AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, t…

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude’s new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering […]

AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first …

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never s…

AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD commits up to $5 billion to  Anthropic

AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]

Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated
Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated

The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding…

OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington
OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington

The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The …

Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.
Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on television with a warning for China. On the same day, the chief executive of the company that powers the entire AI boom went the other way. The threat Bessent said the US will scrutinise Chinese open…

Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement
Bloomsbury among publishers in line for payout from Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement

Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US history. The company told the stock market this week that 1…