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Anthropic is now building its own AI chips
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Anthropic confirmed it is assembling an in-house "custom silicon team" to design chips built specifically for running Claude, aiming to co-design hardware and models together so both run faster and cheaper at the same time. The company is not walking away from its existing partners, it still relies on Nvidia, AMD, AWS, and Google hardware, and says custom chips would simply add another layer on top rather than replace anything. The driver here is simple arithmetic: Anthropic now serves billions of tokens a day on a 30 billion dollar revenue run rate, and even small efficiency gains at that scale translate into real savings. Job listings for the new team pay between 320,000 and 485,000 dollars and specifically want engineers who have already shipped finished chip designs. This follows a broader pattern across the industry, where the biggest AI labs are increasingly deciding that owning more of their own hardware stack is worth the enormous upfront cost.
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Mobility
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Uber and Wayve get the green light to test robotaxis in London
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Transport for London has licensed Wayve's self-driving Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles as private hire cars, clearing the way for Uber to begin carrying paying passengers in supervised autonomous rides later this summer. This completes London's full licensing requirement for the service, though a licensed safety driver must still be present in the vehicle at all times, meaning fully driverless rides are not yet permitted. The move builds on a global partnership Uber announced with Wayve and Stellantis to deploy self-driving vehicles more broadly, and puts Uber ahead of rivals in London's early robotaxi race. Several other companies, including Waymo, Lyft, and Baidu, are also working toward European launches, but regulatory approval has moved slower and more cautiously in Europe than in the US or China, so this London approval is a genuinely significant first step rather than a formality.
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Accountability
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A court just ordered Meta to pay $567 million over child harms
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A New Mexico judge ruled that Meta's platforms contributed to a youth mental health crisis in the state and ordered the company to pay 567 million dollars into a fund for treatment, prevention, and awareness programs, on top of 375 million dollars in civil penalties a jury had already ordered earlier this year. The court found that design choices like endless scrolling, autoplay, and constant notifications kept teenagers on the platforms longer, contributing to higher rates of anxiety, depression, and other harms. Meta must also make real changes in the state, including hiding like counts from users under 18 without parental approval, pausing push notifications to minors overnight, and capping their usage. This is one of several ongoing lawsuits against major platforms over child safety, and legal experts have started describing this wave of cases as social media's own "Big Tobacco" moment.
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India
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A WhatsApp scam is targeting India's finance professionals
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India's Cyber Crime Coordination Centre has issued a fresh warning about a rising scam that specifically targets chartered accountants, company directors, CFOs, and finance staff. Victims receive a compressed file over WhatsApp, SMS, or email disguised as a bank statement or an official notice from a body like the RBI or MCA, and opening it on a Windows computer can hand attackers control of the victim's WhatsApp account. From there, the compromised account is used to spread the same file to the victim's contacts, and in the most damaging version, attackers impersonate a senior executive to pressure finance staff into urgent money transfers. Cases have already been reported across Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan. The core lesson worth remembering: never open unexpected compressed files claiming to be account statements or regulatory notices, and always verify any urgent payment request from a "boss" or executive through a direct phone call before acting on it.
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That's it for today. See you tomorrow.
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