The world’s largest private capital group has revived plans to sell its office building, the latest sign of revival for the east London financial district after a long slump following the Covid-19 pandemic. https://t.co/lgXcgpQi4Y
Aravind Srinivas, CEO Perplexity explains how the Perplexity Personal Computer actually differs from OpenClaw.
"Something like a "Personal Computer" should be able to run your own business."
Anthropic is currently in talks with major private equity firms like Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman to create a joint venture aimed at bringing its Claude AI models to a massive network of corporate businesses.
- per The Information / Reuters
This partnership would likely follow a consulting model similar to Palantir, where experts help traditional companies actually weave AI into their daily operations and software.
Private equity firms own or have stakes in thousands of companies, from healthcare providers to retail chains, and this deal would give Anthropic a direct pipeline to sell its technology to those firms.
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New evidence suggests India misestimated annual economic growth rate during the past two decades.
Growth in boom years 2005-2011 may have been underestimated by ~1–1.5 percentage points;
Growth from 2012-2023 overestimated by ~1.5-2 percentage points.
https://t.co/7U961E5wuL
A startup is offering $800 for an 8-hour shift to test and pressure AI chatbots by exposing what they forget and where they break down.
The goal is to spotlight one of AI’s biggest weaknesses which is memory.
AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it, according to one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date https://t.co/OyA4TPISk1
Iran may be using a Chinese satellite navigation system to target Israel and US military assets in the Middle East, say intelligence experts.
Here's what we know about China's BeiDou navigation system https://t.co/PUR599KPgE
Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue. https://t.co/2tTCgwsrwH
Insane
The U.S and its allies used 800 Patriot missiles to intercept Iranian drones and missiles in the first 3 days of the war. For comparison, Ukraine used 600 in four years of fighting Russia.
Source: @DefenceU
Graphic shows the vast difference between casualties inflicted by US-Israel (on Iran and Lebanon) and Iran (on Gulf countries, US bases).
India has thus far only condemned the latter.
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