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Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.
Artificial Intelligence
US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
Future of work
Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.
Insider
Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.
Artificial Intelligence
Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
AGI
We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Defence
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Meta
OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.
Finance
Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.
Apps
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
Corporates and innovation
Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.
Security
Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.
Artificial Intelligence

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Startups and technology

The Angle Health mobile app on a desk, showing its care question search bar, a nearby provider card with directions, and suggested prompts about urgent care and deductibles

INVESTORS AND FUNDING

Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

Angle Health sells health plans to American firms with as few as two staff, and says it renews them at 5% to 7% when the market is running at 18%. London's Vitruvian Partners led the round. Two thirds of the $600m is a secondary that priced below the headline valuation.

Investors and funding

INVESTORS AND FUNDING

Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos

Nik Storonsky has pointed to a London listing for the first time, after two years of saying the city could not compete with New York. Revolut was valued at $115bn in July. A partial London float would hand the exchange its biggest win since Wise moved its primary listing to Nasdaq.

Corporates and innovation

Dario Amodei, with curly hair and glasses and wearing a navy cardigan with brown elbow patches, holds a microphone and gestures as he talks to Marc Benioff, seen from behind in a dark pinstripe suit, surrounded by a seated audience in a hall lit in blue and orange

CORPORATES AND INNOVATION

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

The evaluator is Accenture, already the largest deployment of Claude Code Anthropic has. There are still no standards for what embedded evaluators may see, or what they must report.