Show Notes
Anthropic formally filed to go public this week and about a third of its paperwork is dedicated to potential risks — including political ones. We'll get into it on today's “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
Plus, it’s a big week for big tech earnings: Microsoft pleased investors with a more restrained approach to AI spending, but still announced it’s offering buyouts to 60,000 employees. Meanwhile, Google’s parent company Alphabet took a plunge on Wall Street.
Here to help us unpack this week’s tech news is Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios.
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Anthropic warns investors of AI’s ‘existential risk to humanity’ in IPO prospectus, reports say — from CNBC
Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees. Read the memo — from Business Insider
Meta eyes record $97.5 billion equity raise to fund AI expansion — from Reuters
Scoop: FTC demands Anthropic execs testify in probe — from Axios
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