Anthropic sealed a deal with Google and Broadcom to build 3.5 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity starting next year, shifting from outsourcing infrastructure to taking a more active, in-house management role.
Google has accelerated its post-quantum cryptography transition timeline to 2029 and is urging the blockchain industry to prepare within three years.
Google launched an AI-powered Google Finance, expanding to over 100 countries with advanced market research, charting, and real-time data, showcasing its continued dominance and integration of AI across products.
Dvorak highlights Anthropic's new Claude Mythos AI model, restricted to partners like Apple and Google because it's 'too powerful' and adept at cybersecurity. He connects Anthropic's founders and investors to the Effective Altruism movement.
Google introduced 'notebooks' in Gemini, a feature to organize resources, documents, and custom instructions for specific tasks, integrating Notebook LM functionality directly into the Gemini app.
Recent quantum computing papers from Google and Oratomic lowered the resource estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography by orders of magnitude, moving the goalposts closer.
Google's Willow paper in 2024 demonstrated below-threshold error correction, proving error rates can decrease as more physical qubits are added. This was a key theoretical breakthrough for scalability.
Google research estimates a future quantum machine could break Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography with under 500,000 physical qubits, a 20x reduction from prior estimates.
Nathaniel Whittemore reports Anthropic is limiting access to 40 partners under Project Glasswing, including AWS, Apple, Cisco, and Google, to harden the model and defensively patch vulnerabilities.
A host argues Google's real advantage over OpenAI is deep integration into consumer products like Gmail and Drive, not just subsidy power, while Apple lacks a coherent integration playbook.
Kanjun Q warns of a default future path where verticalized AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) lock users in, renting back their 'digital selves,' versus an open-source path where users own and control their agents.
Anthropic signed a compute deal with Google and Broadcom for 3.5 gigawatts of capacity set to come online from 2027. Anthropic uses Google TPUs exclusively for inference, while its training clusters are operated by AWS.
Google's Gemma 4 model was downloaded 2 million times in its first week. In contrast, Gemma 3 saw 6.7 million downloads over a year, and Alibaba's Quen 3.5 achieved 27 million downloads since mid-February.