AI’s Big Game Weekend
It’s Super Bowl weekend in the U.S., and while I wondered if we’d see AI-generated ads, what we’re actually getting are big AI brands’ own commercials during the game.
ChatGPT vs. Claude: Super Bowl Ads Ignite AI Rivalry
From CNN:
A long-simmering rivalry between two of the world’s biggest AI companies was on public display this week as Anthropic and OpenAI took swings at one another online.
A series of new Super Bowl ads from Anthropic on Wednesday set off a chain of events. The ads sent a clear message: The company won’t put advertisements in its Claude chatbot, a declaration that came shortly after OpenAI said ads were coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI executives, including Sam Altman, quickly hit back and accused Anthropic’s ads of being misleading and criticized their competitor’s business model. (OpenAI plans to run its own SuperBowl ad this weekend. )
A new AI tool hammered some software stocks this week
From ABC News: Shares of some software companies worldwide plummeted in recent days after Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence tool viewed by some investors as a potential replacement for widely-used enterprise products.
The selloff came in response to a set of new plugins for a digital tool called Claude Cowork, an AI-fueled workplace assistant that can author documents and organize files. The plugins, released on Friday, allow customers to adapt the tool for narrow sectors like legal, finance or data marketing.
Thomson Reuters, a data and services firm, and legal-tech company Legalzoom.com each fell more than 15% on Tuesday.
New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers
From TechCrunch: New York state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. While the bill’s prospects are uncertain, Wired reports that New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.