Headlines This Week Major newspapers are trying to carve out a deal with AI firms, as an argument brews over the copyrighted material that said firms have used to train their content-generating algorithms. NYC Mayor Eric Adams has found the certifiably most annoying use of AI, which is to spam city residents with automated robocalls. Well done, dude! Last but not least: The Daily Beast has a really interesting article looking at the intersection between cybercrime and large language models.
The company has also received a significant chunk of change from powerful tech giants, including Amazon , and Google , and it even previously took in quite a bit of money—some $500 million—from Alameda Research, the investment firm run by FTX accused criminal Sam Bankman-Fried. In short: Anthropic is a heavy hitter in the emergent AI industry, so it’s interesting that it is now weathering a pretty serious lawsuit from an equally large and powerful corporate giant.