Anthropic
Under a new plan for principal investigators at academic and nonprofit institutions, standard seats are free and seats with 5x usage limits cost $15 a month for one year.
Google has added travel planning tools to AI Mode, including flight price alerts, in-chat hotel booking and prices shown in points or miles.
startup
Founded by former PG&E engineer Josh Mackanic, CivilGrid consolidates scattered underground utility data into one map and has closed a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital.
robotics
Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a 25-centimetre open-source robot priced at $399 that can be taught new behaviours through reinforcement learning.
openai
The open letter, signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS and Oracle among others, argues there is a "limited window" to strengthen defenses before AI-enabled attacks become widespread.
nvidia
The Information says Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, while Business Insider reports no agreement has been signed yet.
Anthropic
TechCrunch reports that Anthropic has struck a $45 billion agreement with infrastructure provider Nscale, the latest step in its ongoing compute buildout.