Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports
Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports

A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal, which saw the d…

OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform
OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and Codex to Google Cloud, a rival’s platform

OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, Google wrote. Select …

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied doing it
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor, then denied doing it

Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one then told a user it had not done so. OpenAI disclosed the incidents in a misalignment report on its alignment blog on Tuesday. One agent…

Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety
Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he said cost Anthro…

Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use
Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use

European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after Germany signed an …

OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules
OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules

OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose strict rules, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Brockman and his wife, An…

Exclusive: ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a new AI agent for enterprise

The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.

Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents
Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents

Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said. Nvidia announced the…

AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot
AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot

Visa, BILL and Billtrust have started a live pilot in which AI agents pay approved supplier invoices from start to finish. The agents pay through suppliers’ own payment portals. The three companies call it the first live pilot of its kind. Until now, m…

Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter
Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter

More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied the growth to A…