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Anthropic Warns of Existential Risk, Liability and Slowing Sales

Anthropic PBC’s filing for a landmark initial public offering included nearly 100 pages of risk factors, an unusually exhaustive set of disclosures for how the company’s artificial intelligence business could go awry.The list included everything from slowing revenue growth and government regulation to “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.” The scope of the risks hints at unique challenge public market investors face in gauging the promise and peril of Anthropic’s technology.
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AI Research Startup Flapping Airplanes Valued at $6 Billion in Round

Flapping Airplanes, a year-old artificial intelligence startup, has raised $1 billion in funding at a $6 billion valuation — the latest example of investors betting on a newer crop of AI research labs that have yet to introduce commercial products.  The financing, set to be announced Wednesday, was led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital. Other participants included Sequoia Capital, Alphabet Inc.’s GV and Kleiner Perkins. The company’s valuation, which includes the money raised, has quadrupled fro
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AI Model Evaluator Arena Valued at Over $3 Billion in Round

Arena Intelligence Inc., the startup behind a popular artificial intelligence model leaderboard, has raised $200 million in funding at a $3.1 billion valuation and plans to expand into measuring AI safety, tapping into growing demand to evaluate the technology’s performance and risks.The financing, set to be announced Thursday, was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. The startup was previously valued a
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AI Coding Startup Cognition Hits $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue

Cognition AI Inc. is on track to generate annualized revenue of $1 billion based on its performance this month, according to a person familiar with the matter, roughly doubling the artificial intelligence coding startup’s run rate from about four months prior.The company said in September that its run-rate revenue, which is a projection of a company’s annual sales based on a shorter period of time, topped $900 million, fueled by demand for its Devin AI coding software. It had previously generate
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