Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.

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a technology that nobody wants

Apparently you can say anything in an Ars story about AI, and people will upvote it so long as it has the approved attitude, no matter how stupid it is.

 

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a bunch of models that don't cost multiple firstborn children to run

I somehow signed up for API pricing when I installed Claude Code (while using claude.ai for free in a browser), and I get a bill for $10 every one or two sessions. That's less than $3/hour, extremely cheap for an agreeable, tireless, hyper-knowledgeable junior-plus developer.

I might balk if and when costs increase to ~$30/hour, but that's still cheap for a business or someone in a developed country trying to avoid being laid off.