Anthropic plans to spend up to $567 billion on compute in coming years. It will build its own data centers through an initiative called Anthropic Direct. Anthropic Direct will represent a growing share of its compute investments over time.
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Spend: up to $567B on compute in coming years.
Initiative: Anthropic Direct builds its own data centers.
Share: Anthropic Direct will represent a growing share of compute investments.
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AI Contracting paper shows agents negotiate badly under uncertainty
AI Contracting introduces a formal study of AI agents negotiating and honoring natural language contracts. The paper finds that agents negotiate poorly under uncertainty and break deals on purpose. It links to the arXiv preprint.
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Formalizes and studies AI contracting.
Finds agents negotiate badly under uncertainty and break deals on purpose.
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Goldman AI impact shows negative correlation with jobs
Goldman reports AI adoption in US firms has a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth. The observation suggests AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector.
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AI adoption in regular business functions shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth.
AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector.
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Amazon pilot project improves internal safety evaluations
Amazon pilot project improves internal safety evaluations, with AVERI assessing test quality. Review led to several improvements in Amazon’s internal evals.
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Pilot project between Amazon and AVERI assessed the quality of internal safety tests.
Review led to several improvements in Amazon’s internal evaluations.
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mlx-stump GPU time-series discovery on Apple Silicon
mlx-stump is a GPU-accelerated time-series pattern discovery and anomaly detection tool for Apple Silicon, built with MLX and a STUMPY-compatible API. It is available via pip install and as an open source repository.
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GPU-accelerated time-series pattern discovery and anomaly detection for Apple Silicon
Built with MLX and a STUMPY-compatible API
Available as a pip install
Open source repository available
