Google Steps Up AI Race With Fresh $1 Billion Investment in OpenAI Rival Anthropic
Google reportedly invests $1B+ in OpenAI rival Anthropic
The cash infusion comes on top of the $2 billion that Google has already provided to the artificial intelligence developer. Separately, Anthropic is said to be raising $2 billion from a group of institutional investors led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The latter deal is expected to value the company at $60 billion.
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Google Invests Another $1B in Anthropic Amid Runaway AI Valuations
Google is set to invest a further $1 billion in Anthropic. With a $60 billion valuation, Anthropic is the second-most valuable AI startup after OpenAI.
Samsung's AI alliance with Google could spell trouble for the iPhone - here's why
Samsung's partnership with Google imbues its new Galaxy S25 phones with powerful AI and deep integration across its ecosystem. That's a major, major win.
Google’s Gemini is already winning the next-gen assistant wars
One of the most important changes in Samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long-press the side button on your phone, instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby assistant by default, you’ll get Google Gemini .
Samsung Unpacked S25: Galaxy S25 Phone Goes All-In On Google AI
At Samsung Unpacked S25, Samsung showed off an AI-curated “Now Brief” that transforms the lock screen into a daily report.
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Google Adds AI Shortcuts, Lock-Screen Updates, More to Galaxy S25 Series
Android features unveiled at Samsung's Unpacked event narrow some of the gap between Samsung’s flavor of Android and Google’s.
Google’s Titans Give AI Human-Like Memory
At the heart of Titans' design is a concerted effort to more closely emulate the functioning of the human brain.
The Prompt: Inside Google's AI Innovation Engine
The order, signed in October 2023, required companies building powerful AI systems to share their safety test results with the federal government and come up with ways to limit their models’ biases and discrimination.
Google Gemini now works across multiple apps in a single prompt
With today’s update, Gemini is able to carry out more complex multimodal tasks. You might ask it to find a dog-friendly Italian restaurant and send it to your friend, or pull up your NFL team’s upcoming games and add them to your calendar, all in a single prompt.
Google rushed to sell AI tools to Israel’s military after Hamas attack
The company fulfilled requests from Israel’s military for more access to AI tools as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.
3 exciting AI features coming to Google Pixel and other Android phones
Google today has announced that several features introduced at Samsung Unpacked will also be heading to other Android phones soon. Some of these are specific to the Pixel 9 lineup, but most are coming to all recent Android phones. Here's a look at what's on the way.
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Galaxy S25 Phones First to Feature Google's Project Astra AI Tech
The Samsung Galaxy S25 will be the first family of phones to include Google's Project Astra, the companies announced Wednesday at Samsung's Unpacked 2025 event. This gives the phone the ability to analyze the world around it through its camera and provide personalized answers to questions that chatbots can't replicate.
The future of AI is even more fossil fuels
“They have to produce a lot of electricity and we will make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want,” Trump said. “At the AI plant they will build energy generation and that will be incredible.” It’s unclear if building energy operations inside an AI data center is possible in practice.