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Anthropic is on a mission to make Claude a default AI tool for corporate America — and the Big Four firm PwC is now one of its biggest routes in. Loading audio narration… On Thursday, PwC and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their alliance, a move that will help their efforts to embed AI into the underlying infrastructure of large companies.The expanded partnership will focus on three areas: helping engineering teams build agentic AI tools for clients, deploying AI across the dealmaking process, and reinventing clients’ underlying operating models with AI.PwC will train and certify 30,000 US employees in Claude…

The best advice in life is often free. Loading audio narration… After spending millions in pursuit of the fountain of youth, tech entrepreneur-turned-longevity-influencer Bryan Johnson shared his top health hacks in an X post on Wednesday.”This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity,” he wrote, before enumerating a list of 41 of his top recommendations — many of which boil down to basic, low-cost habits we already knew, like sleeping well, exercising regularly, eating healthy foods, and avoiding risky behaviors that can cut a life short.This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity. From: Your Immortal Unc and…

Celebrities, influencers, and business leaders are spinning up digital replicas of themselves using artificial intelligence. Loading audio narration… Is it creepy? Is it a clever way to expand your reach and make more money? Both?Some internet personalities are making digital avatars of their physical likeness for e-commerce or marketing. An AI avatar of Chinese influencer Luo Yonghao helped drive over $7 million in product sales during a livestream last year, for example.Others are training chatbots on their bodies of work to make a digital version of their minds or personalities available to fans at all times.The technology is seeping into…

LinkedIn is betting big on events as part of its focus on the creator economy. Loading audio narration… The professional networking site is planning to launch events featuring creators in the second half of this year, according to company documents seen by Business Insider. Over time, it wants to host as many as 4,000 events a year featuring creators.A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed the company has started testing paid events with creators.”We’re seeing strong demand for tools that help creators build sustainable businesses and for members to have direct access to trusted experts,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to Business…

REGGIO EMILIA, Italy (AP) — The Princess of Wales’ visit to Italy has put the spotlight on an Italian early childhood educational model that helped revolutionize how toddlers learn in school.The Reggio Approach, used in public daycare centers and preschools in the northern city of Reggio Emilia, values a child’s inherent curiosity and potential, with teachers acting as facilitators, not instructors, and parents and the surrounding community actively involved. And Princess Catherine, who has made early development her signature cause, is spending two days seeing it up close. “I love that you put children and childhood at the heart of…

For over a decade, Canva has been one of the most popular graphic design platforms. Now, Anthropic has an opportunity to capture some of that market with AI. Loading audio narration… Anthropic announced its latest Opus 4.7 AI model on April 16, and a day later announced the launch of Claude Design, a tool which it said allows users to “create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.”Designs created by Claude Design can be exported directly to Canva, Anthropic said in the release.The new Claude feature comes as the industry warns of a “SaaSpocalypse,” in which AI…

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation,” as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine during a visit to Europe’s largest university.Leo’s speech at Rome’s La Sapienza University marked the first time a pope has visited the campus since Pope Benedict XVI called off a planned speech there in 2008 in the face of protests from faculty and students.The American pope was warmly welcomed on Thursday, including by some of Sapienza’s newest students: Young Palestinians who arrived in…

Lume isn’t just a modern and expensive lamp; it doubles as a laundry folding genie. And to hype and humanize this alien-like robo housemaid before it starts shipping this summer, the company behind it, has launched an all-out, high-gloss social media video blitz.There’s a commercial launch video, a 10-minute-long documentary about Syncere’s founders, and a behind the scenes doc about the making of that doc. The documentary opens on a sunrise, follows the founders as they make coffee, shoot hoops in a driveway, work on the Lume prototype in a backyard, and eventually end the day sitting around a dining…

Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself. This time, she’s not waiting for someone else to fix it. Her company, Forum AI — which she discussed recently with TechCrunch’s Tim Fernholz at a StrictlyVC evening in San Francisco — evaluates how foundation models perform on what she calls “high-stakes topics” — geopolitics, mental health, finance, hiring — subjects where “there are no clear yes-or-no answers, where it’s murky…

While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal tech is poised to be the next big winner of the LLMs era. That’s a self-interested claim — 18-year-old Clio is a legal tech company — but the numbers are hard to dismiss. Clio saw its revenue growth accelerate sharply after integrating AI into its offering in 2023. The company surpassed $200 million in annual…