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Anthropic is livestreaming "The Briefing: AI for Science" today at 10am PST, its biggest push yet to plant Claude inside the life-sciences pipeline. The lineup is a who's-who of pharma — Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan, Bristol Myers Squibb's Chris Boerner, and Genentech R&D head Aviv Regev — alongside customer showcases and the company's VirBench research, which showed frontier models scoring as low as 16.9% on viral-sequence queries until a deterministic retrieval tool pushed accuracy past 92%. It also marks the public debut of AlphaFold Nobel laureate John Jumper since his jump from DeepMind.
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President Lee Jae Myung, flanked by Samsung and SK Hynix leadership, unveiled an industrial package topping $1 trillion built on a "triple axis" of semiconductors, physical AI, and data centers. The headline numbers: roughly $518 billion from Samsung and SK Hynix for new fabs, plus a buildout aiming at $648 billion in AI data-center investment by 2035. Lee framed it as a "race against time" to secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country.
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5 are now generally available through Microsoft Foundry on Azure, with native Azure AD authentication, unified billing, a governed Messages API, and US data-zone support. The models run on GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs with Quantum-X800 InfiniBand for larger agentic systems. It's a notable détente given how tangled the Microsoft-Anthropic relationship has been lately.
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The years-long incentive to burn as many tokens as possible is reversing, and it lands right as OpenAI and Anthropic eye historic IPOs. Lindy CEO Flo Crivello moved 100% of his company's traffic off Claude to the cheaper open-weight DeepSeek, saying it will save millions; Uber, meanwhile, blew through its entire annual AI budget in four months and slapped spending tiers on its tools. With Anthropic at a reported $47 billion run rate, the question is whether its biggest customers start rationing.
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Add another name to Google DeepMind's exodus: Denny Zhou, who founded Google Brain's reasoning team and helped invent the chain-of-thought techniques behind modern LLM "thinking," has quietly turned up at Meta's Superintelligence Lab. No farewell post — just a LinkedIn title change to Research Scientist. His departure underscores how pre-IPO equity at rivals and DeepMind's pivot toward commercial coding are pulling long-horizon AGI researchers out the door.
