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Friday’s top story: Anthropic has partnered with AWS and Palantir to help US Defense and Intelligence agencies make better, more informed decisions and boost operational efficiency.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🦾 Anthropic strengthens US intelligence

2. 🌱 How to grow your LinkedIn audience with Taplio

3. 😈 Amazon holding Anthropic to ransom?

4. 💼 How to become an AI consultant with Innovating with AI 

5. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 How to build a professional network using ChatGPT

6. 🚩 Mistral flags harmful content with new tool

7. 🍼 A16z backs AI-powered parenting

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FACT OF THE DAY

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GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE

🦾 Anthropic strengthens US intelligence 

Our Report: Anthropic (makers of the Claude chatbot), has partnered with big-data analytics firm, Palantir, and Amazon’s cloud hosting platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to give US Intelligence and Defense agencies access to its Claude models to “boost operational efficiency across departments” and help them make better, more informed decisions.

🔑 Key Points:

• The collaboration will allow US Defense and Intelligence agencies to “rapidly process and analyze vast amounts of complex data,” improving intelligence analysis and decision-making processes.

• Officials can access Claude via the Palantir platform (which is hosted by AWS) in an Impact Level 6 (IL6) environment, which is reserved for systems dealing with “secret level” data that requires “maximum protection.”

• Palantir and AWS are two, of just a handful of companies, to get a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) accreditation which allows them to “operationalize the use of Claude” in an IL6 environment.

🤔 Why you should care: With a reported 1,200% increase in AI-related government contracts, US government agencies are becoming more and more interested in AI, and AI firms are becoming more and more interested in providing their services to these agencies, with the likes of Meta recently giving Intelligence and Defense officials access to its open-source Llama models and OpenAI reportedly in talks with the US Department of Defense.

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FUNDING

😈 Amazon holding Anthropic to ransom? 

Our Report: Amazon is reportedly in talks with AI startup, Anthropic, to strike a multi-billion-dollar deal—similar to the $4B one they made in March—but in return for the funding, it wants Anthropic to use its Amazon-own-brand AI chips (Trainium chips), instead of NVIDIA’s, to train its AI models.

🔑 Key Points:

• Amazon wants Anthropic to use its own AI chips to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and lower costs, and the amount of funding awarded, reportedly depends on the number of Trainium chips Anthropic agrees to use.

• It made a similar deal with Anthropic earlier this year: In return for $4B in funding, Anthropic agreed to use AWS as its primary cloud provider and give AWS customers access to its future AI models.

• Although Anthropic may prefer to use NVIDIA chips—they’re more reliable and provide greater flexibility when using other cloud providers—it needs the funding after forecasting $2.7B worth of costs this year.

🤔 Why you should care: These negotiations highlight the complex dynamics and power plays between AI developers and cloud providers and underscore the competing priorities within AI alliances.

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TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

💼 Want to become an AI Consultant?

The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X – from $6.9B to $54.7B in 2032.

But how does an AI enthusiast become an AI consultant?

How well you answer that question makes the difference between just “having AI ideas” and being handsomely compensated for your contribution to an organization’s AI transformation.

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Some of the highlights current students are excited about:

• The tools and frameworks to find clients and deliver top-notch services

• A 6-month plan to build a 6-figure AI consulting business

• Students getting their first AI client in as little as 3 days

And, as a reader of AI Tool Report, you get early access to the next enrollment cycle.

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SAFETY

🚩 Mistral flags harmful content with new tool

• French AI startup, Mistral, has launched a content moderation API, powered by a fine-tuned version of its micro model—Ministral 8B—to address concerns around AI safety and content filtering.

• It detects harmful raw and conversational content across nine categories—including sexual content, hate speech, violence, dangerous activities, and personally identifiable information—in English, French, and German.

• Although Mistral says the model is “highly accurate” (while admitting it’s a “work in progress”), it hasn't compared its output—these types of models are susceptible to bias—to equivalent models from OpenAI and Jigsaw.

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PARENTING

🍼 A16z backs AI-powered parenting 

• Justine Moore—a key partner at Venture Capitalist firm, a16z—has thrown her support behind “a new wave of ‘parenting co-pilots” which are powered by Large Language Models and AI agents.

• Her endorsement referenced AI startups like Cradlewise—which develops AI baby monitors that detect sleep patterns—and Nanit—which uses AI to assess crib footage to establish if the baby is breathing.

• She believes that “AI parenting companions,” which can answer questions and discuss parental feelings and issues, 24/7, is a “promising field” indicating that this could be the next big trend in the AI sector.

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