Monday’s Morning Briefing is a quiet one for new workplace AI features. Anthropic leads the news with a pledge to put 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund, subject to shareholder approval.
Elsewhere in AI
Anthropic has pledged 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund amid growing backlash over AI safety and economic concerns, the Financial Times reports. Read
Microsoft has withdrawn from Nscale’s planned AI datacentre in Loughton, Essex, over power supply concerns, leaving the project without its expected anchor tenant. Read
Music publishers allege AI firms used Australian artists’ work without payment while pressuring the government to weaken copyright law, The Guardian reports. Read
The World Bank is urging developing countries to build small, locally adapted AI models that run on mobile phones with limited connectivity. Read