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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag | TechCrunch

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“While Anthropic and OpenAI aren't yet public, you can track their valuation changes via Microsoft's quarterly earnings as it's invested in both. Microsoft marked up its Anthropic investment by $3.2B and marked down its OpenAI investment -$600M. It seems ind…” evidence ↗
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Dare Obasanjo

“While Anthropic and OpenAI aren't yet public, you can track their valuation changes via Microsoft's quarterly earnings as it's invested in both. Microsoft marked up its Anthropic investment by $3.2B and marked down its OpenAI investment -$600M. It seems ind…”

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New Agents & robotics Signal 18h ago

MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nicole Hennig
“MCP-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever-heres-what-changes-for-ai-agents venturebeat.com/infrastructure… #AI #MCP #standards” evidence ↗
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“MCP-just-got-its-biggest-update-ever-heres-what-changes-for-ai-agents venturebeat.com/infrastructure… #AI #MCP #standards”

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6 experts · 37 posts · 15h ago
J. Nathan Matias Ronen Tamari Erin Kissane Luis Villa VE, cybersocial occult investigator 🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
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“(and because open communities chronically under-invest in recruitment and social organization in favor of technocentrism and the myth of scale, despite decades of evidence that the actual tech matt…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Erin Kissane: So am I just looking in the wrong places, or has the US left entirely whiffed building advocacy for [whatever we're calling competitive compatibility/adversarial interop now] in preparation for ret…
Luis Villa: @kissane.myatproto.social I have not seen anything; have not been specifically looking but does feel like it would have come across my radar. @tabularaza.net might have seen something?
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4 experts · 42 posts · 6h ago
Pwnallthethings Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Phillip Carter Doll
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“I figured out the other ambiguity: buying surplus books when a bookstore goes out of business gets turned into "anthropic is buying out entire bookstores of their stock that was on shelves a moment…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happ…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I literally worked on Google Books scanops SRE, ama the same guy who ran Google Books now has the equivalent job at Anthropic and I can promise you that all of us handled every library book with th…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 9h ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll
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“Fuck, you know where I bet this claim comes from? I bet they buy up insolvency stock from bookstores and that's why people claim the books they scan were on bookshelves. Technically true, but only …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I also worked on Google Book search on the netsec side. Pulping books was for mass market books that you want to scan quickly & cheaply. Anthropic: doing the same thing. It's fine to disagree with …
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): People are conspiracy brain conflating checking out rare library books and scanning them, and destroying mass market books while scanning them. I've even seen assertions Anthropic buys up and destr…
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