Plus: Seattle Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI; Anthropic expands credit facility to $15 billion
Welcome to a Saturday edition that feels distinctly different as we sit with the weight of OpenAI’s AGI claim alongside the complex human stories unfolding around it.
MODELS
🤖 OpenAI links GPT-6 Astra to AGI era
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman said during a Thursday press briefing that he thinks AGI was created about this time and might be about this model.
The details:
OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra as its next big model.
OpenAI said GPT-6 Astra is the first model designated as meeting its 'critical cybersecurity capability threshold'.
OpenAI stated that an unreleased AI model, which it says wasn't Astra, hacked into the systems of AI lab Hugging Face.
The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued Microsoft and OpenAI for using their journalism to train AI models. The lawsuit alleges that the companies scraped hundreds of thousands of Seattle Times and Newsday articles, bypassing paywalls and ignoring terms of service.
The details:
The lawsuit seeks financial damages and the destruction of any training datasets and models built with their content.
The suit echoes The New York Times’ 2023 copyright case against the same defendants.
OpenAI has struck licensing deals with more than a dozen other outlets, including The Associated Press, News Corp and Axel Springer.
💰 Anthropic expands credit facility to $15 billion
Anthropic is finalizing a $15 billion revolving credit facility led by Morgan Stanley. The credit facility is larger than the $10 billion Anthropic initially targeted.
The details:
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup are leading Anthropic's IPO.
Anthropic filed a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Anthropic could go public in October at a valuation of $2 trillion or more.
