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- Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise at $30B - $40B
- Telegram to share usersā IPs, phone numbers with governments
- Sam Altman predicts āsuperintelligence in a few thousand daysā
- Cloudflare launches tools to help analyze, control AI scrapping
- U.S. has top 4 startup cities, China has 3 out of top 10
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1. Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise at $30B - $40B, ~2x from its last valuation
Talks are said to be early about the new funding round.
50x its projected $800M ARR.
$7B raised over the last year by Anthropic.
Anthropic archrival OpenAI is reportedly raising $6.5B at a $150B valuation.
Less than 1 month after his arrest in France.
New Terms of Service: āIf Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you're a suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate the Telegram Terms of Service, we will perform a legal analysis of the request and may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities.ā
āProblematic contentā in search results on the app will now be concealed.
Recently, Telegram disabled new media uploads to stop bots.
Durov, once known for lax moderation, is bowing down after his arrest.
Relatedly, TikTok has removed Russian-linked accounts, calling them ācovert influence operations.ā
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4. Sam Altman predicts āsuperintelligence in a few thousand daysā
