STORY: From Anthropic's growing commitment to Google, to a revival of a 17th-century playwright, this is AI Weekly.
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Anthropic has committed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years as part of a recent agreement.
That's according to a report by The Information, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.
The AI startup signed a deal in April with Google and the tech firm's chip partner Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of processing capacity.
Coinbase said it's cutting about 700 jobs, or roughly 14% of its workforce.
The crypto exchange is triming costs and retooling its business for the AI era.
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The layoffs come amid a slowdown in crypto trading after digital assets retreated from their October highs, as investors grow more cautious.
Samsung reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income as clients spend big on AI.
The South Korean tech giant said January-March operating profit in its chip division reached a record $36.15 billion.
It was massively up from a year before and represented 94% of the quarter's total.
Family members of victims of one of Canada's deadliest mass shootings are suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman.
They allege the company identified the shooter as a credible threat months before the attack - which killed 9 people - but failed to warn police.
They say OpenAI's automated systems flagged violent conversations with ChatGPT eight months before the February shootings in British Columbia.
A play written in the style of the famous 17th-century French playwright Moliere by AI is due to premiere in Versailles after years of development.
The project, employs the French-developed Mistral AI, trained using Moliere's works to replicate the playwright's language and humour.
The AI generated approximately 20 versions of each scene which were then modified through 20 iterative edits before achieving a historically accurate script.
