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Anthropic

Satya Nadella, Sam Altman

Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement

Microsoft and OpenAI announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding Thursday afternoon, signaling that they’ve agreed in principle on changing and continuing one of the defining partnerships of the AI era. Read More

Elon Musk in VAB

Elon Musk’s xAI plans Seattle hub with engineering jobs paying up to $440k

The move by xAI is notable in part because of Musk’s complicated relationship with Microsoft. The company will join OpenAI and Anthropic among major Silicon Valley AI startups with Seattle-area outposts. Read More

Amazon will offer OpenAI’s open-weight models, sidestepping Microsoft via Apache 2.0 license

OpenAI released its first open-weight AI models in more than five years, and Amazon quickly said they will be available… Read More

Amazon Q2 earnings preview: AI bets, cloud growth, and tariff changes in the spotlight

Amazon’s infrastructure investments and cloud business will go under the microscope Thursday when the company reports second-quarter financial results —… Read More

Tech Moves: Avanade AI chief steps down; Amazon vet joins Shipium; Tanium names CMO

— Florin Rotar is leaving Avanade after a 25-year career at the Seattle-area IT services and consulting firm. Rotar joined Avanade… Read More

Microsoft expands AI roster with Anthropic and xAI integrations, looking beyond OpenAI alliance

Microsoft is continuing to expand its fleet of AI partners, hedging its bets beyond its high-profile partnership with OpenAI —… Read More

What AI can learn from the browser wars: Microsoft CTO calls for open standards to fuel ‘agentic web’

[Updated below with related announcements from Microsoft Build.] REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is pitching a future built on the “agentic… Read More

Amazon deepens Anthropic ties with equity conversion, adding billions to Q1 profit

A portion of Amazon’s investment in AI startup Anthropic converted from notes into stock in the first quarter — triggering… Read More

Anthropic, which opened a Seattle office last year, now valued at $61.5B after raising $3.5B

Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and… Read More

Amazon doubles total Anthropic investment to $8B, deepens AI partnership with Claude maker

Amazon will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform, bringing its total… Read More

Claude meets Alexa: Amazon will reportedly use Anthropic’s AI to help power its voice assistant

Amazon will make its Alexa voice assistant more conversational with help from Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence technology, Reuters reported Friday… Read More

Anthropic courts Claude AI users (and devs?) with billboard across the street from Meta in Seattle

Driving home from the Technology Alliance annual lunch in Seattle today, we were momentarily distracted by the big orange billboard… Read More

Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic is growing its Seattle workforce

Anthropic, one of the most valuable privately held AI companies going head-to-head in the generative AI race with OpenAI, is… Read More

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company… Read More

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