Bearly AI

Google bid $10m for Spirit Airlines data out of bankruptcy. The deal was held up to remove employee payroll/medical info and personal data on 97 million customers.

The remaining data is 500 million Microsoft Teams chats and 100 million emails (~$0.02 a message) for AI training.

Dario’s concluding pitch in the Anthropic IPO roadshow video that dropped today:

“If today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness. These will be relics of the past in. I think, less than a decade."

I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way.

I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia.

We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.

I invite you to join us on the next phase of this journey.”

Amazon replaced Claude in its giant internal ticketing system with a small decision model that can't write text (it only picks a label but did job just as well).

Cost went from from $22,200 to $500 per million tickets, or 44x cheaper.

“This worked because the task is a closed choice from a known catalog, the volume is high, and the latency of the old path mattered. If your labels need explanation text, if the catalog changes weekly, or if you can’t fit the useful context into a few thousand tokens, a decision model probably can’t replace the LLM’s job.”

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More here: strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-sa…

PwC will launch a six-month critical-thinking and judgment certificate for 85,000 staff.

As AI does more research, writing and analysis…PwC wants employees to practice evaluating assumptions, refining insights and advising clients (with simulations and a personalized AI coach).

John Ternus is pushing for Apple to have a Dots/Muse/Grokbot type AI agent in 2027