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Bloomberg reports that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt owns about 1% of Anthropic, after investing tens of millions in the AI lab's 2021 Series A round when it was valued at $461 million. That stake is roughly half the 2% reportedly held by Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei.
The Interim Computer Museum has taken on a new restoration of Galaxy Game, the 1971 Stanford coin-op version of Spacewar! built by Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck on a PDP-11/20. The project, prompted by Pitts along with Josh Dersch and Robert Schmuck, has already rebuilt the machine's power supply and gotten the PDP-11 running again, with work now shifting to refurbishing its HP 1300A electrostatic X-Y displays.
Autonomous Technologies Group, a Y Combinator-backed AI lab building frontier reasoning systems for financial markets, has posted openings for engineers via its careers page. The company's flagship product, Autonomous, is described as an agentic wealth strategist that applies these AI systems to personal finance and investing.
A California district judge ruled that the Defense Department's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk earlier this year violated the First Amendment. The court found the move came after Anthropic refused to drop restrictions barring its AI from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous lethal weapons systems, part of a broader Pentagon push to renegotiate AI vendor contracts.