Dario Amodei · White House · Anthropic · OpenAI · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · TechCrunch AI
Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it
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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them, to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise.
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- On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market
Summary
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals. What Oura pulling its IPO, plus Anthropic’s leaked S-1 and OpenAI going back to private funding, says about how picky public markets have gotten. Quartermaster’s $140M raise to bring real-time sensors to an industry that AI hasn’t touched yet: maritime shipping.