Anthropic Revenue Hits $65B as Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books for AI Training
Anthropic saw its annualized revenue surge to $65 billion, adding $18 billion in just two months, according to company reports. The Claude maker's explosive growth underscores the intensifying competition among AI model providers as enterprises race to deploy generative AI tools across their operations.
A hidden AirTag revealed that Amazon is trashing rare books to train its AI systems, with the team using a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo, reports The Verge. The discovery raises serious questions about data sourcing practices and the destruction of cultural artifacts to fuel machine learning models at one of the world's largest technology companies.
Reddit launched an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android, according to The Verge. The feature uses AI to read posts and comments aloud while generating visual content, marking the platform's latest push into AI-driven media formats for its over 850 million monthly users.
AI automation startup Relay shut down and its staff joined Google's Chrome team, per TechCrunch. Relay founder and CEO Jacob Bank said the team has ambitious plans to help users work with AI in Chrome, signaling Google's broader strategy to embed AI assistants directly into its browser used by over 3 billion people.
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts, taking a pragmatic approach to automation. "We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy," one founder noted, reflecting a shift toward human-assisted robotics in heavy manufacturing after years of SpaceX's rapid iteration culture.
Whisker's AI-powered litter robot monitors cat litter box usage and flags potential health issues, representing a notable advance in pet technology. The device, which automatically scoops waste, now uses AI to track usage patterns across its user base of over 1 million households, though one reviewer noted the system occasionally confused data between two cats in the same home.
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