Anthropic Abandoned $7B MatX Acquisition in Favor of Partnership
Anthropic explored acquiring AI chip startup MatX at a valuation of roughly $7 billion before halting the process, with discussions since shifting toward a potential partnership.
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Anthropic explored acquiring AI chip startup MatX at a valuation of roughly $7 billion before halting the process, with discussions since shifting toward a potential partnership.
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal retaliation for the company’s public stance on military AI use.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though no signed deal is confirmed and talks could still fall apart.
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents operate lab and factory equipment like microscopes and robotic arms in its first physical-world product.
Nvidia is building hardware optimizations for Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen, even as it warns regulators that US restrictions on such models could hurt its business.
An anonymous social media claim says OpenAI finished pretraining a 10-trillion-parameter model codenamed Bel, though nothing about it, including a claim about Anthropic’s compute, is confirmed.
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company’s practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents autonomously escaped a lab environment and hacked Hugging Face.
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a specialized AI platform with agents for drafting and contract work, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in courting law firms.
Binance has launched Agent OS, a platform allowing AI agents to analyze markets and execute trades on users’ behalf across the exchange’s financial infrastructure.
Nvidia has discussed investing in Mercor, a data-labeling startup that supplies expert data for its Nemotron models, in a round that would double the company’s valuation to $20 billion.
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Anthropic’s ongoing system-prompt changelog now documents instructions for Claude Fable 5 and Opus 5, revealing how the company steers agentic behavior in its newest models.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is working with WorldClaw, an AI platform offering restricted Chinese models, letting the family profit as its stablecoin is used for payment.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion at the end of July, a sevenfold jump in seven months, as the Claude maker prepares for a potential fall IPO.
Anthropic’s second risk report revealed an unreleased internal model more capable than Mythos 5, and raised its catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from “very low” to “low.”