White House Adviser Says Anthropic Could Become the Greatest Company in the History of Capitalism · 1101-787
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Anthropic became the focus this week. White House technology advisor Sacks, based on its S-1 filing, asserted that it could become the greatest company in the history of capitalism, while the company is retrofitting text watermarks onto four older models to meet the EU AI Act deadline [0][5][19]. On the product side, OpenAI announced that starting in December, ChatGPT and Codex will share token quotas, while Perplexity demonstrated a new frontier for generative applications with "generate an interactive museum from a single sentence" [3][2].
🚀 Key Updates
- Sacks Praises Anthropic as "the Greatest Company in the History of Capitalism" [0]: The White House technology advisor, based on the S-1 filing, said it could become the highest-returning venture capital project ever.
- Anthropic Retrofits Watermarks onto Four Older Claude Models [5]: Covering Mythos 5, Opus 4.7/4.6, and Sonnet 4.6, to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline.
- OpenAI to Share Token Usage Between ChatGPT and Codex Starting in December [3]: Plus, Pro, and Business plan quotas will be merged, as the ChatGPT Work agent feature is integrated into the main experience.
- Perplexity Supports Generating an Interactive Museum from a Single Sentence [2]: Demonstrated the generative interaction capability of "computer, build me an interactive museum."
- Databricks Lakebase Branching Used for CI/CD Practices [1]: Snorkel AI creates an independent database branch for each PR, replacing the roughly 20-minute full Aurora restore.
- University of Illinois Proposes ClaimNov to Improve Novelty Checks [4]: Splits proposals into claim-by-claim comparisons, catching plagiarism at a 97% rate while greatly reducing false positives.
- xAI Shares Advanced Grok Bot Usage [21]: Routines support scheduled tasks and subscription-based triggers, enabling automatic email summarization and writing to Notion.
- Stageshow Skill Released [10]: Helps Agents generate fake UI still images, animations, and bento grids, installable via npx.
🔗 Sources
[0] US White House technology advisor Sacks says Anthropic could become the greatest company in the history of capitalism — https://aihot.news/items/dpm21l66z2iizblehsdg09c8t [1] Databricks Lakebase branching feature used for CI/CD: practical experience with 100 PR databases — https://aihot.news/items/linlo0a4vt15kn999zaaqwdxe [2] Perplexity generates an interactive museum from a single sentence — https://aihot.news/items/bdr4wzfygol4lz52ptme168wh [3] OpenAI official documentation announces that starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share token usage between ChatGPT and Codex — https://aihot.news/items/hvpncb367m05u2z49ltb6mm8u [4] University of Illinois paper proposes ClaimNov to improve novelty checks in AI research workflows — https://aihot.news/items/fbj22bujlnrzl6wn1geuth4jj [5] Anthropic retrofits watermarks onto four older Claude models; two older models can be bypassed via sampling parameters — https://aihot.news/items/qb62rmlob1dhgxxgycxshlg02 [10] Stageshow skill released: helps Agents generate fake UI still images, animations, and bento grids — https://aihot.news/items/hou4m47fbpr