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Anthropic’s $6 Billion Deal Talks With Decart Show Focus on Cost Efficiency

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Anthropic is in talks to acquire startup Decart, which makes software that helps reduce the cost of training and running AI.

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Retirement Upside

How Retirement Savers Can Profit from Big IPOs

It’s usually not by eagerly scooping up shares of a company before it has met the standards of inclusion for key indices like the S&P 500.

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Big AI IPOs Get Headlines. The Real Story Takes Longer To Tell

Portfolio managers expect both big waves and ongoing ripples as indexes, passive strategies and active investors adjust to blockbuster tech IPOs.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Underscores Support for Open-Source AI, a Boon for Hardware Spending

Back in March, CEO Jensen Huang spent Nvidia’s developers conference saying its chips are the perfect infrastructure for open source tools.

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Artificial Intelligence

Zuck Wants to Hand AI Power to the People. That Makes More Sense for Meta Than Its Rivals

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In an essay, the Meta CEO asks AI companies to open their gates so the tech’s top secrets won’t be restricted to a handful of institutions

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Artificial Intelligence

‘Modelmaxxing’ Replaces ‘Tokenmaxxing’ for Firms Grappling With AI Costs

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Faster, cheaper models from DeepSeek, Moonshot and other Chinese firms let users prioritize AI cost-effectiveness, undercutting US giants.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI, Anthropic Speed Toward IPOs Amid Growing Scrutiny of Token Payments

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Enterprise customers have begun to doubt the burdensome cost of pay-per-use token consumption and are looking to cheaper models.

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