Google to invest fresh $1 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic

Google has invested more than $1Bn in Generative ai startup Anthropic, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Anthropic, which is best known for its Claude family of AI models, is one of the leading startups in the new wave of generative AI companies building tools to generate text, images and code in response to user prompts.

Google already has an existing commitment of $2Bn in Anthropic, while e-commerce giant Amazon doubled its stake in the AI company to $8Bn late last year.

The new investment builds on Google's past investments of $2Bn in Anthropic and 10% ownership stake in the startup, as well as a large cloud contract between the two companies. In December, Anthropic's revenue hit an annualized $1Bn, which was an increase of roughly 10X year over year.

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Training facility for humanoid robots launched in Shanghai

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China has inaugurated the country's first facility dedicated to training heterogeneous Humanoid robots in Shanghai.

The national and local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center and the Zhangjiang Group co-hosted the humanoid robot Kylin training ground, which can accommodate over 100 humanoid robots for simultaneous training in its initial phase.

Xu bin, general manager of the innovation center, said that the training facility will significantly reduce investment costs associated with the development of embodied intelligence technologies. Industry players including BYD, GAC group, Chery, Nio, Seres, and Xpeng have recently announced forays into the humanoid robot sector.

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1. globaltimes - Shanghai rolls out the countrys first heterogeneous humanoid robot training ground
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4. xinhua - China Focus: Training facility for humanoid robots launched in Shanghai
5. globaltimes - EV producers on road to innovation in humanoid robot

Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models

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Microsoft's Linkedin has been sued by premium customers who claimed that the social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models.

The lawsuit was filed in the San Jose, California, Federal court on behalf of Linkedin premium customers who sent or received Inmail messages, and whose private information was disclosed to third parties for AI training before Sept. 18.

It SEEKS unspecified damages for breach of contract and violations of California's unfair competition law, and $1,000 per person for violations of the Federal stored communications act.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

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1. cna - Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models

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