Google Cloud Invests $300 Million Into AI Startup Anthropic

Google Cloud has invested up to $300M into Anthropic – an artificial intelligence (AI) venture – which has additionally obtained more than $500M worth from Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). The FTX founder made that funding approximately 6 months in advance of the drastic crash of his crypto empire. The amount of $300M was reported on the 4th of February by Financial Times. Anthropic also confirmed that it has carried out investment collaboration with Google Cloud.

Google Invests in an AI Platform Formerly Supported by SBF

Nonetheless, the company did not mention any amount in the case of the respective collaboration. In the declaration, Anthorpic revealed that the platform formerly collected funds from Caroline Ellison (the former CEO of Alameda Research) and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) as well as others in a Series B funding round. The funding round was led by SBF (the former CEO of FTX).

The rest of the members of the respective funding round include the Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR), Jaan Tallinn, Nishad Singh, Jim McClave, and Caroline. The fundraising endeavors led by SBF occurred in 2022’s April, as per Crunchbase. Recently, it was reported by The New York Times that nearly $580M was raised. In that capital, a worth of up to $530M was contributed by Bankman-Fried as well as his previous business collaborators.

However, a few think that amount to be higher than that. One creditor of FTX is of the view that the stake of SBF in the AI firm could be equal to $1.1B. Nonetheless, the respective figure was not elaborated by the creditor. The rest of the Crypto Twitter community’s members speculate if the stake of SBF will be utilized to recompense the enormous debt of FTX accumulated from the controversies that recently emerged.

In line with the latest collaboration, Anthropic will utilize the TPU and GPU clusters of Google Cloud to train, enhance, as well as implement the AI Chatbox named “Claude”. The respective product is analogous to ChatGTP of OpenAI. As Financial Times reported, Google Cloud obtained nearly a ten percent stake in Anthropic.

NFT Influencer Gets Robbed by a Google Ads Malware

A few days back, NFT God (an NFT influencer) reportedly lost a great sum from their net worth in crypto and NFTs after downloading malicious software wrongfully while using the search results of Google Ads. As per the Twitter user “NFT God”, the whole virtual fortune in their possession was drained in an ambush that additionally targeted their crypto wallet in addition to the other associated accounts.

NFT God goes by another name “Alex”. They stated that they utilized the search engine “Google” and downloaded an open-source software called “OBS” for video streaming. Nonetheless, rather than selecting the original website’s link, they opted for a sponsored advertisement as it appeared to be the same thing. Nevertheless, a few hours after that, several phishing tweets were sent by the exploiters on Alex’s Twitter accounts.

They asserted that the malicious software responsible for doing bad operations on their hardware was downloaded from the advertisement that was sponsored by Google. Following a message sent to Alex from some unknown entity, they additionally discovered that the crypto wallet in their possession was drained.

The next day, the exploiters targeted their Substack account. In addition to this, the phishing emails were also forwarded to 16,000 subscribers after Alex. Blockchain data shows that the cumulative lost amount equals up to $27,000.

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