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What You Missed This Week:
1. 🌱 Amazon, Google, Meta, & Microsoft are Joining Together for Data Center Clean-Tech
Tech avengers, assemble. Elemental Impact, a nonprofit investor, launched the Data Center Innovation Initiative with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft as partners, aiming to accelerate the deployment of clean energy and materials technologies in data center environments. Funding for individual projects will range from $500,000 to $5 million, with the initiative aiming to back as many as 10 startups before the end of 2027. (Quartz)
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3. 🩶 OpenAI Foundation is Commiting $250M to Help Workers Navigate AI Disruption
OpenAI may have sped up AI work disruption… but it also wants to help solve it. An initial $250 million is being pledged by the OpenAI Foundation across grants, partnerships, and hands-on programs with the goal of cushioning workers and economies against “the upheaval that AI technology is bringing.” Specific programs are expected to be unveiled before the end of the year. (Quartz)
4. 🦾 Anthropic Released Opus 4.8
Speaking of Silicon Valley’s most valuable tech company… Anthropic just released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere and comes just a short 41 days after Opus 4.7 was released to disappointed user reactions. (TechCrunch)
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6. 🗂️ ClickUp Laid Off 22% of its Workforce Due to AI
Collaboration software startup ClickUp’s CEO Zeb Evans announced that the company, which was valued at $4 billion in 2021, has laid off 22% of its workforce as part of a “radical embrace of AI that will propel the company to the next level.” ClickUp recently introduced around 3,000 internal AI agents to handle a wide range of tasks on behalf of employees. (TechCrunch)
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