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Anthropic is quietly running one of the more ambitious AI training operations in the industry right now. The company is working with thousands of human software engineers through a program called Project Marlin, partnering with Snorkel AI to fine-tune Claude Code to professional developer standards. Contractors on the project can earn up to two hundred eighty dollars an hour, signaling just how seriously Anthropic is investing in closing the gap between AI-generated code and real-world engineering quality.
Shifting to hardware, Dell is drawing renewed attention from investors as the company repositions itself around artificial intelligence infrastructure. The personal computing giant is no longer just a legacy PC story — its AI solutions business is generating fresh growth that analysts say is difficult to overlook, raising real questions about whether the market has fully priced in the transformation underway at the company.
And on the healthcare technology side, Pro Medicus saw its shares move higher after its U.S. subsidiary Visage Imaging locked in a five-year contract renewal with Allegheny Health Network worth twenty-eight million Australian dollars. The deal expands the scope of services to include Visage seven Workflow, reinforcing the company's position as a sticky, high-retention player in medical imaging software.
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