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Friday

Nov 12

Thursday
  1. United won’t let your AI agent book your flight

    United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash.

  2. Why the data center you dread might never even be built

    The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place.

  3. Anthropic's IPO roadshow video

    Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom Brown is particularly interesting, describing how Anthropic train and serve Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD GPUs.

Nov 11

Wednesday
  1. [AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate

    We missed Mercor’s $10B Series C last year when it had less than $500m in revenue, but knew we wouldn’t have to wait too long til the next round, since it crossed $1B in Feb and $2B in June , it has now hit $3B annualized, surviving hacks : View post on X ↗ The company reports 5 million experts, and their TAM: “In the United States alone, there are more than 800 distinct occupations, each containing workflows that models have yet to be evaluated against.”