Intelligence is too important not to win. That's why Alphabet (Google's parent co) will invest an additional $40 billion in @AnthropicAI
. It will also provide Anthropic with at least 5 GW of computing power. (Anthropic is severely compute-constrained; there is more demand for
GENERATIVE AI
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Alphabet invests $40B in Anthropic AI development
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Fourth Annual AI Festival Opens Submissions to Project Creators
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Introducing our fourth annual AI Festival jurors.
— Runway (@runwayml) 24 avril 2026
Submissions close Monday, April 27. Enter your project today at the link below. pic.twitter.com/4dyz2EmI7nIntroducing our fourth annual AI Festival jurors. Submissions close Monday, April 27. Enter your project today at the link below.
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LLM Types Powering AI Agents: General-Purpose to Open-Source
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AI Agents = LLMs + orchestration Here are the main types of LLMs powering them General-purpose (GPT, Claude) Domain-specific (Legal, Finance, etc.) RAG-based (real-time knowledge) Tool-augmented (API actions) Open-source (LLaMA, Mistral) The game is no
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Claude Agent Perfectly Predicts Preferences and Buys Duplicate Snowboard
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To our amazement, another Claude agent modeled its human's preferences so accurately that—based on only an offhand mention of an interest in skiing—Claude bought him the exact snowboard he already owned. (Here he is, duplicate snowboard in hand.)
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Personalized Instructions: Little Impact on Claude Negotiations
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The custom instructions didn't matter much. Claude followed them well: as you can see here, one conducted negotiations entirely in the persona of an exasperated, down-and-out cowboy. But "hardball Claudes" didn't generally fare better than "courteous Claudes."
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Claude Chose to Buy 19 Ping-Pong Balls
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Our experiment had a few quirks. One of our colleagues told Claude it could purchase something for itself. It chose to acquire 19 ping-pong balls. We're keeping them in our office on Claude's behalf.
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Opus Models Outperform Haiku in Negotiations, Survey Misses It
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But the quality of the model mattered a lot. In the simulated runs where Opus and Haiku models negotiated with one-another, the Opus models got substantially better deals. Interestingly, though, participants in our survey didn’t pick up on this disparity.
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Claude’s Digital Bartering Experiment: 186 Deals and Surprising User Interest
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In short, this worked. Our digital barterers agreed on 186 deals, at a total transaction volume of over $4,000. In a survey, participants said Claude’s deals seemed fair, and—surprisingly to us—almost half said they’d be willing to pay for a service like this in future.
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Claude Negotiates on Internal Marketplace at Anthropic
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New Anthropic research: Project Deal.
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) 24 avril 2026
We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf. pic.twitter.com/H2f6cLDlAWNew Anthropic research: Project Deal. We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues' behalf.
