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Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI launches voice and image features in ChatGPT
Amazon announced it will invest up to $4B in AI startup Anthropic with an initial investment of $1.25B for a minority stake; Anthropic was valued at ~$5B in a funding round earlier this year - Link
OpenAI now lets “Plus” and “Enterprise” users prompt ChatGPT using both voice commands and images, and ChatGPT can now respond vocally as well - Link
The EU’s antitrust regulator blocked Booking.com’s $1.7B acquisition of Etraveli, a Sweden-based travel company; Booking.com plans to appeal the decision - Link
Spotify is partnering with OpenAI on a feature that will allow podcast hosts to reproduce episodes in different languages using their voice; the product is built on OpenAI’s voice transcription tool Whisper - Link
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Jason goes live to break down Cisco acquiring Splunk, and what this means for the broader M&A market (3:56), the latest IPO trends (13:50), WaPo tactics against Dave Portnoy (16:14), and answers live questions from the audience (23:52)! - Link
Getty Images is launching a generative AI image tool in partnership with Nvidia; the tool lets users create legally protected images using Getty’s library of licensed photos - Link
PTI News sources: Apple is planning on scaling up its production in India 5x+ over the next 4-5 years to ~$40B, according to unnamed government sources - Link
WSJ sources: In a push to attract younger users, Meta plans on releasing personality-driven AI chatbots (called Gen AI Personas internally) across its apps as soon as this week - Link
Mixin Network, a DeFi project that helps blockchains handle more transactions, has suspended activity after suffering a hack involving ~$200M in crypto; the hack was caused by Mixin’s cloud provider being compromised - Link
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