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Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city (New York Times)
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OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving the company later this month after nearly nine years (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency (Grace Kay/The Information)
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Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
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Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
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Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to all paid plans through July 12; access to the model was set to shift to token-based usage on July 7 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World (Meta Newsroom)
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Google announces a Pixel event on August 12 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Pixel 11 series of phones and Pixel Watch 5 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Netflix signs deals with Penske Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, People, and other publishers to carry a range of programming from 2 to 20+ minutes, starting August 3 (William Earl/Variety)
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Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max plan subscribers, and says 90%+ of Cowork usage is unrelated to software development (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
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Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a $20M seed led by Red Dot (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a $65M Series D led by TPG at a $1.2B valuation and says it is profitable (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B+ led by Summit Partners (Mike Lennon/SecurityWeek)
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Google launches "platform properties" in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)