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AI research lab Anthropic’s not slowing down in its efforts to snap up enterprise clients. The company on Wednesday said it is expanding its partnership with cloud data company Snowflake in a $200 million multi-year AI deal that will bring Anthropic’s large language models to Snowflake’s platform and, consequently, to its sizable customer base. “Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide,” Snowflake’s co-founder and CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy, said in the blog post. “Together, the combined power of Claude…
Meta’s move to serve only its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to WhatsApp users isn’t sitting well with the competition regulators in Europe. The European Commission on Thursday said it is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users on the app. WhatsApp in October changed its business API policy to ban general-purpose chatbots from the chat app, saying that the API isn’t designed to be a platform for the distribution of chatbots. The policy change, which goes into effect in January, would affect…
Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year. For 2025, the winning iPhone app was visual planner Tiimo, and the iPhone game of the year was the card game Pokémon TCG Pocket. Although Apple has continued to avoid naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as its app of the year, AI was showcased among this year’s winners. Apple’s app of the year, Tiimo, for instance, is described as a visual AI planner that turns to-dos into plans with visual timelines.…
Uber might seem ubiquitous in the US, but its CFO says the company has lots of room to grow.Across the 10 largest countries where Uber operates, about 15% of adults use either Uber for ride-hailing or delivery, Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah said during a presentation at UBS’ Global Technology and AI Conference on Wednesday. Uber and other consumer-focused companies often refer to this metric as “market penetration.”Uber’s market penetration in the US “is right in line with that 15% average,” Mahendra-Rajah said. That means that Uber has yet to reach many customers in the country where it was founded, he said.To Uber…
Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most successful AI company, says the tech won’t take your job, but it might create some strange new ones.Many, including Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “godfather of AI,” have warned that AI’s rapid evolution could trigger mass unemployment and deepen inequality.In an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” published on Wednesday, Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, took a more optimistic view, saying he thinks jobs that are greater than the sum of their tasks will survive.”The question is, what is the job?” Huang said. “Your job has to be more than the task.”He pointed…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants and contaminants, and the hepatitis B vaccine.It marks the third meeting this year of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members, replacing them with his own hand-selected picks, many of whom have expressed vaccine-skeptic views.This is also the first meeting since the chair of the ACIP, Martin Kulldorff — a former Harvard Medical School professor — accepted a permanent role at HHS.…
By Mariam SunnyDec 4 (Reuters) – A group of vaccine advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will consider on Thursday whether to delay hepatitis B shots for the vast majority of American children in what would be the most significant change yet to U.S. vaccination policy under the health secretary.The two-day meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will also see a vote on whether parents, in consultation with healthcare providers, should be able to choose between giving newborns the hepatitis B vaccine at birth or waiting until at least two months, if the mother tests negative or…
One in four Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are considering going without health insurance if their monthly premiums double next year, a new KFF poll published Thursday finds.Open enrollment for the ACA began last month, and many Americans experienced sticker shock upon receiving their annual notices and discovering their 2026 premiums would be increasing.At the same time, enhanced premium tax credits under the ACA, which help lower the cost of monthly premiums for about 22 million Americans, are set to expire at the end of the year, and it’s unclear if Congress will take action to extend…
While many venture firms seem to only have eyes for AI these days, Nexus Venture Partners is deliberately splitting its focus for its new $700 million fund. The firm will back AI startups and seek out India-focused startups in consumer, fintech, and digital infrastructure. AI has soaked up most of the venture capital raised globally and the 20-year-old VC firm also sees AI as a defining technological shift. But it argues crowding into a single, overheated category carries its own risks. India’s digital economy provides a counterbalance: an expanding market where AI adoption is rising and opportunities remain more diverse.…
AI-powered manufacturing startup RMFG has raised $4.5 million to help revive US production.RMFG was launched in July 2024 by Kenneth Cassel, a 32-year-old college dropout and Y Combinator graduate, as well as a father of four. Cassel grew up in a large, blue-collar family in Texas and taught himself to code while working maintenance at a gas station company.”We’re in this kind of renaissance where there’s a lot of renewed interest in manufacturing,” Cassel told Business Insider.RMFG says it helps startups that don’t want to deal with the costs of building their own facilities or face the security risks of…