Perplexity's Snapchat deal ends, Claude boosts usage limits and adds agent 'dreaming'

Elon Musk was demanding full control of the company and had just given each of his co-founders a Te… The research partnership comes as the management behind…

Perplexity

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Perplexity's planned integration with Snapchat, which would have let you ask questions directly in the chat, has been called off.

Snap no longer has a deal with Perplexity, the company revealed on Wednesday as part of its quarterly earnings report. The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapcha…

The deal would have seen Perplexity integrated into Snapchat’s “Chat” interface, allowing users to ask questions and receive conversational answers directly w…

The deal would have seen Perplexity integrated into Snapchat’s “Chat” interface, allowing users to ask questions and receive conversational answers directly within the app.

Original reportingSnap says its $400M deal with Perplexity 'amicably ended' | TechCrunchRead original ↗

Claude

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If you use Claude Code, you can now use it more often because the company has raised the usage limits.

Anthropic claims the deal gives the company access to more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity. For its part, SpaceX focused its announcement on the capability of the Colossus 1 supercomputer that’s at the center of the deal.

The deal might be surprising to those who have followed Musk’s recent public comments—he was, until now, critical of Anthropic.

Original reportingAnthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceXRead original ↗

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Claude agents now have a new 'dreaming' feature that helps them learn from their past actions and get better at tasks over time.

The following three changes—all effective today—are aimed at improving the experience of using Claude for our most dedicated customers. We’re very intentional about where we’ll add capacity—partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale, and where the supply chain on which our compute depends—hardware, networkin…

Finally, we recently made a commitment…

Finally, we recently made a commitment to cover any consumer electricity price increases caused by our data centers in the US.

Original reportingHigher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceXRead original ↗

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Claude boosts usage limits and adds a 'dreaming' feature for agents.

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ChatGPT

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Elon Musk was demanding full control of the company and had just given each of his co-founders a Tesla Model 3.

CTO Greg Brockman said he saw that as way of buttering them up at a time when Musk and Sam Altman were vying to win support for…

Molo also dwelt on emails from where Brockman said he will donate $100,000 to OpenAI, something he never did.

Original reportingHow Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman | TechCrunchRead original ↗

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Musk’s core claim in this lawsuit is that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman effectively stole a nonprofit, using the $38 million Musk invested to create a private company worth more than $800 billion today.

Zilis testified on Wednesday that Altman never ended up joining Tesla, and the AI lab and the NeurIPS launch event never came to fruition.

She also testified that Musk reached out to Karpathy about recruiting him to Tesla.

Original reportingElon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to TeslaRead original ↗

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8220;One of the big issues with AI is it goes way beyond trust,” Diller said.

“It may be that trust is irrelevant because the things that are happening are a surprise to the people who are making those things happen.

Original reportingBarry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But 'trust is irrelevant' as AGI nears, he says. | TechCrunchRead original ↗

Gemini

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“As a gamer and games producer, I’ve long admired EVE ,” Google DeepMind Director Alexandre Moufarek said in a statement.

In today’s announcement, Fenris and DeepMind said that EVE Online presents “a uniquely rich environment for study,” especially when it comes to developing AI systems that use “…

In today’s announcement, Fenris and DeepMind said that EVE Online presents “a uniquely rich environment for study,” especially when it comes to developing AI systems that use “long-horizon planning, memory, and continual learning.” DeepMin…

Original reportingGoogle DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testingRead original ↗