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Alphabet invests $40B in Anthropic AI development
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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 -
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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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 agents negotiate in parallel market experiments
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Claude interviewed 69 of our colleagues about what they wanted to buy and sell. Each Claude asked for any custom instructions, then went off to haggle. We ran 4 markets in parallel, to find out what would happen if we varied the models doing the negotiating.
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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.
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William transitions to game design development
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Le moment de mettre William a la conception de jeux peut-être https://t.co/3rxGFMNPhS
— ⚡Jessy SEO formation #IA générative #chatGPT 🦊 (@jessyseonoob) 24 avril 2026Le moment de mettre William a la conception de jeux peut-être
