Amazon boosts its investment in AI start-up Anthropic to $4bn (double what Google has put in) as it seeks to bolster its AI credentials. The ChatGPT rival (founded by ex-OpenAI staff) is worth $18bn+ George Hammond & Camilla Hodgson report
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The way this almost had me crying on the subway.

This piece will either perfectly articulate your everyday anxieties, in which case you’ll want to read it—or it’ll all sound totally unfamiliar to you, in which case you need to read it. defector.com/the-money-is-i…

I have an impersonator out there (the profile photo is clearly not me!) please keep an eye out and report. Has managed to make my username look similar by replacing L with a capital I twitter.com/CristinaCriddIe

⚡️GM to cut Cruise spending tomorrow⚡️

🚘GM to set out details on Weds

🚘May alter long-term software revenue targets

🚘Investors say cutting Cruise is 'easy win'

Latest with Camilla Hodgson:
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The Energy Charter Treaty secretariat is courting OPEC to find potential new members as the EU prepares to leave.

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Yesterday, temporarily, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees Celsius barrier.

Messages exchanged between two of the top civil servants during pandemic.

Simon Case: “It’s like taming wild animals... The PM and the people he chooses to surround himself with are basically feral”.

Mark Sedwill: “I have the bite marks.”

Nothing to see here, just the fourth month in a row of record-breaking temperatures. And 2023 set to be through hottest year on record on.ft.com/3MDnuZV

5 years ago Milton Keynes was dubbed ‘tent city’ by the media. Today, no one needs to sleep rough on our streets. How did we do it? A thread by the Cabinet Member responsible 👇

Scoop w/Demetri: Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has turned its spotlight onto Sequoia, asking the Silicon Valley firm for details of Chinese companies it has invested in and querying the decision to sever ties with its Chinese arm earlier this year.

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Writers the contest is over: this sentence has been written and you’ll never write a sentence this bad.

After 6 months of fieldwork in Bougainville🇵🇬, I'm ready to embark on leg 1 of my #NoFly journey to Germany. Travelling by🚢,🚅,&🚌over 27,000km, I'll emit ~535kg of CO2, 10 times less than✈️. This decision cost me my job, but I still think it was the right thing to do. 1/🧵

Fossil fuels made up 82% of the global energy mix last year, not much lower than the 86% share they had when the first climate COP was held in 1995. We've never known more about how to fix this but we're mired in a period of climate stuckness ft.com/content/880b76… via @ft

there are more Matts in the future of journalism than women

It’s hard to comprehend it, but our friend Evan has now spent six months in a cramped cell in Moscow for doing his job as a journalist. This is the last picture I took with Evan, just weeks before his illegal arrest. I can’t wait to take a new one. #FreeEvan

ICYMI - I nabbed this first print interview(s) with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino for the Financial Times mag this weekend

Some observations:

Linda stonewalls and dodges questions on safety & how policy is actually developed. The spectre of Musk hangs over her.
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Personal news: while my colleague Leslie Hook is away for the next 6-12 months I'll be running the FT's natural resources coverage. So it's no longer just the energy beat. Tips and suggestions on anything mining, trading, commodities or energy related all gratefully received...

Still makes me laugh