Anthropic has joined Frontier, a carbon removal collective, contributing to a new $915 million funding round that nearly doubles Frontier's total pledges to $1.8 billion. This marks Anthropic as the first pure AI startup in the group, signaling a potential shift in its approach to sustainability amid growing energy use by AI companies. Frontier supports vetted carbon removal projects to help companies offset emissions they cannot eliminate, aiming to remove gigatons of CO2 annually. The new funding will focus on fewer, larger projects with long-term contracts, reflecting a maturing carbon removal market and the hope that governments will eventually take a leading role in supporting these efforts.
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Microsoft is instructing its sales team to highlight the efficiency and cost advantages of its own AI models compared to competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. This shift comes as Microsoft replaces some third-party AI models in apps like Wo...
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Microsoft fixed a major security vulnerability in the remastered Age of Empires II that could let hackers take control of a victim's computer by sending a malicious game invite. The flaw, discovered with AI assistance, allowed remote code execution i...
