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Anthropic closes in on $20B round

1 month 3 weeks ago

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Tim Fernholz

Discord announces age verification will be required for all users from March

1 month 3 weeks ago

Update, February 11 2026: Following a negative reaction to the announcement, the company subsequently updated it to state that "for most adults, age verification won’t be required" as the platform would be able to infer their age from "account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities." The company said it would not use private messages or any message content in this process.

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Jon Hicks

Can Build A Rocket Boy save itself?

1 month 3 weeks ago

The latest twist in the MindsEye story came last week when staff at the Edinburgh-based studio discovered that the company had installed surveillance software on their PCs without their knowledge.

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Alex Forbes-Calvin

AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?

1 month 3 weeks ago

The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much.

Matthew Gault