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On the surface, Google's decision to commit up to $40 billion to Anthropic — announced on April 24 and confirmed just days later — looks like a straightforward bet on
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TL;DR: Anthropic has unveiled Project Glasswing, a coalition of more than 40 technology and infrastructure organisations using an unreleased Claude frontier model to autonomously discover and disclose critical software
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What if the biggest AI investment in history is not really an investment at all? Within the space of a single week, Amazon committed $25 billion to Anthropic and Google
When Google announced this week that it would invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic — $10 billion upfront, with $30 billion contingent on performance targets — the move was widely read