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Introducing the Services Track and Partner Hub of the Claude Partner Network

In March, we launched the Claude Partner Network, a program for the firms that help enterprises put Claude into production.. Today, we’re announcing two new components that make this ecosystem easier for customers to navigate.

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NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe isn’t just that it can reason through a situation — it’s that […]

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OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA — OpenAI's new proposal comes as its CEO Sam Altman descends on Washington for a series of Wednesday meetings with White House...

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Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes: Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M — In this week's edition of InnovationRx, we look at cancer breakthroughs from the ASCO conference, Clear's move into healthcare,...

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Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Mining AI startup Terra AI closed a $20 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and including the VC arm of mining giant BHP, CEO John Mern tells...

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Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z — Jean-Denis Gréze's AI assistant is a silver fox who wears a little satchel, and her name is Ivy. — Ivy is Gréze's Townie …

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Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)

Melia Russell / Business Insider: Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M — The biggest promise of artificial intelligence in law is not that lawyers will work faster.

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Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation — Lassie's founders went hands-on, then built an AI agent to help dental practices save dozens of hours of busywork. Now, a16z has signed on.

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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)

The Verge: Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” — At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives …

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Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal — AI giant is solidifying its Claude Partner Network to help demonstrate ‘durability of revenue’ as it nears going public

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The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in five to seven years; the Chips Act 2.0 recommends allowing direct EU investments (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in five to seven years; the Chips Act 2.0 recommends allowing direct EU investments — The European Union unveiled a sweeping plan to expand its domestic technology supply chains, targeting greater independence …

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AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.

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How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing "recursive self-improvement", in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.

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The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck

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Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Carrier back data center infrastructure company from Sderot.

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Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage — The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. … In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center …

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Netskope unveils AI Command Center, delivering comprehensive AI discovery and correlated risk intelligence with fully coordinated agentic response

Part of Netskope One AI Security, AI Command Center discovers, risk-assesses, and takes action on AI wherever it appears Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today announced Netskope One AI Command Center, delivering comprehensive AI discovery, unified risk...

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Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic evidence shows model competition shifting toward usable deployment surfaces, where inference, tooling, and reliability matter as much as releases.
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with improved performance in coding, agentic workflows, and consistency for long-running tasks.
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Anthropic has confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC, marking a major milestone in the race among frontier artificial intelligence labs to go public.
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Anthropic has upgraded its model family with the release of Claude Opus 4.8, which is optimized for coding, long-running agentic tasks, and consistent professional workflows.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with enhanced performance in coding, agentic workflows, and long-running professional tasks.
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Anthropic has released its upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model for agentic and coding tasks while expanding its Project Glasswing security program to critical infrastructure organizations across fifteen countries.
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Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, marking a significant milestone in the public market evaluation of frontier artificial intelligence companies.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, introducing a performance upgrade to its model class with a focus on consistency for long-running workflows, coding, and agentic tasks.
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