Anthropic scores $13B in new funding

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Zain Kahn
September 03, 2025

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TODAY IN AI

See ElevenLabs’ new sound effects model in action. Source: ElevenLabs

1. Anthropic closes the gap to OpenAI, rockets to $183B valuation: The Claude maker announced a giant $13B funding round co-led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed, with backers including Blackrock affiliates and Qatar Investment Authority. Claude Code, its developer assistant launched in May, already generates $500M in run-rate revenue. Anthropic’s latest valuation of $183B is a 3x increase from its last fundraising round in March.

2. The battle for Cursor’s code data heats up: The Information reports that OpenAI and xAI have shown interest in AI coding assistant Cursor’s coding data. The dataset comprises millions of real-world coding sessions that AI companies can leverage to improve the coding capabilities of their models.

3. OpenAI makes one of its largest acquisitions to date: The ChatGPT maker is paying $1.1B for product-testing startup Statsig in an all-stock deal. As part of the move, Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji will join OpenAI as CTO of Applications, while the rest of the team will continue operating independently from Seattle.

4. ElevenLabs levels up sound effects: The startup has rolled out an updated version of its sound effects model, available on its app and API. The update allows users to whip out seamless looping sound effects from a single looping sample. You can see it in action here.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

ChatGPT can now monitor, flag, and report your conversations to law enforcement

Source: Made with Midjourney

OpenAI has unveiled a multi-layered monitoring system that's actively scanning millions of ChatGPT conversations for harmful content — and in some cases reporting users to law enforcement. The disclosure comes in a recent blog post, where the company admitted its models have been implicated in multiple mental health episodes.

Here’s how the system works: The company says it uses automated filters to flag content that it deems to pose an “imminent threat of serious physical harm”, routing suspicious chats to what the company calls "specialized pipelines." These chats land in front of a team of human reviewers, trained on OpenAI's usage policies, who determine the best course of action, which could include escalating a chat to law enforcement.

The move raises serious data privacy concerns. The company is essentially building a content moderation system similar to social media platforms. But without transparency about false positive rates, appeal processes, or data retention policies, users may be left guessing whether their next prompt might end up in a police report.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to create persuasive presentations with Canva AI

  • Go to Canva AI and sign up.

  • In the dashboard, go to ‘Canva AI’, select ‘Design for me‘ → ‘Presentation‘

  • Enter your prompt describing your presentation and hit Enter.

Sample Prompt: Create a marketing campaign plan template for a new product launch. Include placeholders for company name, target audience, budget, and messaging. Develop a social media content calendar template for a quarter. Make it generic enough so any brand can add their posting themes and channels.

  • Select from styles to match your audience: Playful & Colorful, Formal & Polished, or Clean Hybrid.

  • Click ‘Use Canva Editor’ to refine your presentation.

  • Once your design is ready, export it as a PowerPoint, PDF, or link.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

Source: u/Garaad252 or Reddit

🍌 Banana Fix: A Reddit user tried Google’s “Nano-Banana” to clean up visuals for a document — and the results are impressive. Although some commenters are concerned people may use the feature for less noble ends.

🙅 Wrong Number: Frustrated Reddit posts highlight how ChatGPT auto-sends some users to hotlines, even in non-critical chats.

📉 Forecast Fail: Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared new data that shows AI progress is way ahead of expectations.

OpenAI will begin routing sensitive conversations to GPT-5 for safer and higher-quality responses. The company is also adding parental controls within a month, giving families more oversight of the model’s use.

Countries are moving fast on sovereign AI: Switzerland released its open-source Apertus model, while South Korea backed Exaone, HyperClova X and A.X in a government-led push.

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PROMPT STATION

Reverse Engineer Your Gut Feeling

Prompt: I want you to help me reverse engineer my gut feeling.

Here’s the process I’d like you to follow:

Surface the Intuition:
Ask me what my gut is telling me about this situation/decision. Capture the raw, unfiltered feeling or bias I have.

Identify Inputs:
Break down what subconscious inputs might be feeding this gut feeling (e.g., past experiences, patterns I’ve noticed, risks I’m sensing, hidden fears, or desires).

Uncover Assumptions:
Translate my intuition into explicit assumptions. For example:
“If X happens, then Y is likely.”
“I don’t trust Z because of past failure.”

Test Assumptions:
Stress test those assumptions:
Are they logical?
Are they based on evidence or just fear/personal bias?
Which ones are valid, which need rethinking?

Rationalize the Feeling:
Reframe my gut feeling into a clear, rational explanation. Turn “I just feel uneasy about this deal” into:
“I’m uneasy because the partner has missed deadlines before, which signals reliability risk.”

Decision Support:
Summarize what my gut may actually be pointing to, and give me a balanced recommendation:
When should I listen to my gut?
When should I override it with logic/data?

Flying High

Source: propaganda0184

Midjourney Prompt: photograph of an airplane flying over times square, a low-angle shot from the street looking up at the sky with city lights and skyscrapers, colorful billboards on the buildings, cinematic, moody, at dusk, with dark clouds in the background, and the text "365048972" in large letters in the foreground. --ar 9:16 --v 7

You can use a similar prompt in ChatGPT without parameters to get similar results.

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