Maximilian Schreiner
Max is the managing editor of THE DECODER, bringing his background in philosophy to explore questions of consciousness and whether machines truly think or just pretend to.
Read full article about: Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries
Anthropic and Indian IT giant Infosys are jointly developing AI agents for regulated industries. The partnership focuses on telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, and software development. The agents are designed to handle complex tasks autonomously - like processing insurance claims, running compliance checks, or automating network operations for telecom providers.
The project combines Anthropic's Claude models with Infosys Topaz, an enterprise AI platform. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said there's a big gap between an AI demo and real deployment in regulated industries, and that Infosys brings the domain expertise needed to close it.
India is Anthropic's second-largest market for Claude, according to the company. Infosys is one of the first partners for Anthropic's new office in Bengaluru.
Read full article about: Indian Adani group plans $100 billion bet on AI data centers powered by renewable energy
Indian conglomerate Adani plans to invest roughly $100 billion in AI-capable data centers powered by renewable energy by 2035. The Adani Group is a major conglomerate with business operations spanning ports to energy. According to Reuters, the company expects the investment to trigger an additional $150 billion in related industries like server manufacturing and cloud platforms - creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India.
Adani aims to expand its data center capacity from 2 to 5 gigawatts. On top of that, the company is putting $55 billion into renewable energy. Adani already works with Google and is building a second AI data center with Walmart subsidiary Flipkart. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Reliance are also investing in India's AI infrastructure. The announcement came during the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
Read full article about: Irish data protection authority opens investigation into AI-generated deepfakes on Musk's X
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into Elon Musk's platform X. The probe focuses on AI-generated sexualized images of real people, including children, created using the Grok chatbot integrated into X.
The DPC is examining whether X violated core obligations under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - including lawful data processing, data protection by design, and the requirement to conduct a data protection impact assessment before launching risky features. Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said the authority has been in contact with X since the first media reports surfaced several weeks ago.
In early January, users created thousands of sexualized deepfakes using Grok, sparking sharp criticism from users, security experts, and politicians, along with multiple regulatory investigations.
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At New Delhi summit, India pushes for a "Global AI Commons"
India is the second-largest market for both ChatGPT and Claude. Now the country wants to shape AI policy at the summit in New Delhi.
Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models
The Pentagon wants unrestricted access to AI technology. Anthropic is demanding guarantees against autonomous weapons control and domestic surveillance. A $200 million contract hangs in the balance.
An AI agent got its code rejected so it wrote a hit piece about the developer
After a volunteer developer rejected its code, an autonomous AI agent independently researched his background and published a hit piece attacking his character. The incident at Matplotlib shows how theoretical AI safety risks are becoming real.
Read full article about: Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion
Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion.
The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S. investment firm Coatue. D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, an Abu Dhabi-based technology investment fund, joined as co-leads. Microsoft and Nvidia also participated, building on previously announced strategic partnerships. Anthropic says it will use the capital for research, product development, and infrastructure expansion.
Anthropic reports annualized revenue of $14 billion, having grown more than tenfold in each of the past three years. Claude Code, the company's coding tool, now accounts for over $2.5 billion in annualized revenue on its own.
One notable detail about how companies are using AI: more than 500 customers spend over $1 million per year on Claude, according to Anthropic, and eight of the ten largest Fortune companies are among its users.
Read full article about: Microsoft AI CEO: "Most" white-collar tasks will be automated in 18 months
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts the end of traditional white-collar work in 18 months.
"I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks," Suleyman says in an interview with the Financial Times. "So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months."
Suleyman leads Microsoft's AI division, which has invested billions in OpenAI and Anthropic and operates Copilot, one of the most widely used AI work tools. He describes the shift as already underway: In software engineering, developers are already using "AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei even predicted that half of entry-level office jobs could disappear within one to five years. He is already observing that fewer junior and mid-level employees are needed. AI could be better than humans in many areas within one to two years, while the labor market adapts with a delay.
Suleyman's boss, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, on the other hand, sees more of a shift where existing cognitive tasks might be automated, but new, more demanding tasks would emerge.