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Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, has filed for an IPO — and the prospectus is raising eyebrows. Roughly a third of the document is dedicated to existential risks from artificial intelligence, a striking admission for a company simultaneously asking investors to fund its growth. It's a tension that defines the entire industry right now.
On a related note, Sam Altman is getting the Hollywood treatment. The OpenAI CEO told Vanity Fair he once waved at Andrew Garfield while the actor was filming outside his home for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film Artificial. Altman's reaction? He said it felt like a glitch in the simulation — which, coming from him, lands differently than it would from most people.
And in a sign of just how central AI platforms have become, new research shows that ChatGPT and Perplexity have appeared for the first time on the list of the most-scraped websites on the internet. The same tools built on scraping the web are now being scraped themselves, as businesses hunt for signals on where consumers are shifting their attention.
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