Internal docs show xAI paid contractors to "hillclimb" Grok's rank on a coding leaderboard above Anthropic's Claude.

A coalition of funders, including the Gates Foundation and Ballmer Group, will spend USD 1 billion over 15 years to help ...

Anthropic isn't actively fundraising, but investors want in on the AI startup anyway at a valuation of $100 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources.