📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI Edisi Jam 13:17
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is publicly calling on the government to break up ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
When Axios asked him whether the Sam Altman-led company should be broken up, he responded with “I do.”
“We need to take a deep breath and understand it’s like a meteor coming,” he told the publication in an interview last week. “We’ve got to be prepared to deal with all of its complexity.”
To be clear, the idea is a serious long shot. While president Donald Trump ran on the promise of breaking up big tech, major companies spent millions on currying favor with him — including donations for his latest White House ballroom project — with varying levels of success.
Trump has also embraced AI fullheartedly during his second term, proudly announcing a massive $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate, soon after taking office. The initiative involves OpenAI, among other entities.
Whether OpenAI is an anti-competitive monopoly in need of breaking up remains a point of contention. Plenty of alternatives to its AI models exist, including Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.
In a statement to Axios, OpenAI’s head of policy communications, Liz Bourgeois, argued that the company is “building in a field shaped for decades by a few large technology companies with deep resources and structural advantages.”
“Our growth reflects something simple: People find what we’re building useful,” she added. “This is what healthy competition looks like in the US — offering better choices.”
Others have called for regulatory intervention following concerns of a growing AI bubble, which could leave the US economy in ruins in case it were to burst.
“The first step to a healthier market is to break up companies that are vertically integrated, so that platforms don’t compete with their customers,” Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator director of AI and technology policy Asad Ramzanali wrote in a recent piece for TIME.
Ramzanali pointed at AI chipmaker Nvidia’s eyebrow-raising $100 billion investment in OpenAI, a “circular” deal that fueled fears over a looming AI bubble.
“Chips must be independent from clouds, and clouds must be independent from AI models,” he wrote. “Those models should compete on merit, not on whether they’re tethered to a trillion-dollar sponsor.”
Besides calling for the breakup of OpenAI, Sanders argued during last week’s interview that AI could have an “enormous transformational impact” while also potentially causing “massive” job losses.
“I want to see small businesses develop,” he added. “I want to see creativity out there in the economy. Ain’t going to do any good for the younger people if the entry level jobs are taken over by AI.”
The senator also said he’s concerned about “how we relate to each other as human beings,” while taking direct aim at AI startup Friend, which made headlines for its controversial wearable that’s designed to act as a companion. The company’s New York subway ad campaign drew major backlash and ignited a heated discussion surrounding the role of AI in our daily lives.
The news comes after Sanders shared a report earlier this month about the impact AI could have on jobs over the next decade.
“AI and automation could destroy nearly 100 million US jobs in a decade,” the report reads, noting that the “economic gains” in AI “have gone almost exclusively to those at the top.”
In response, Sanders called for a “robot tax” to be levied against large corporations to distribute to workers whose lives are upended by technological automation, a radical solution that will likely draw plenty of skepticism. For one, the vast majority of companies are currently struggling to generate revenue using AI.
In short, Sanders is making no secret about his disdain for the AI industry’s disregard for working-class people.
In a separate interview with Vanity Fair last week, Bernie took aim at Trump’s personal embrace of AI.
“Trump is taking this country in a whole new direction,” he said. “This is a guy who puts up an AI image of him in an airplane defecating on American cities — not quite the image of the president of the United States that I was educated to respect when I was in the fourth grade,” Sanders added, referring to a controversial AI-generated video Trump posted on social media, depicting him releasing feces on protesters.
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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates wit
Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and connect it to real-time market data from some of the world's most influential financial information providers.
The San Francisco-based AI startup announced Monday it is releasing Claude for Excel, allowing financial analysts to interact with the AI system directly within their spreadsheets — the quintessential tool of modern finance. Beyond Excel, select Claude models are also being made available in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher agent, expanding the integration across Microsoft's enterprise AI ecosystem. The integration marks a significant escalation in Anthropic's campaign to position itself as the AI platform of choice for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, markets where precision and regulatory compliance matter far more than creative flair.
The expansion comes just three months after Anthropic launched its Financial Analysis Solution in July, and it signals the company's determination to capture market share in an industry projected to spend $97 billion on AI by 2027, up from $35 billion in 2023.
More importantly, it positions Anthropic to compete directly with Microsoft — ironically, its partner in this Excel integration — which has its own Copilot AI assistant embedded across its Office suite, and with OpenAI, which counts Microsoft as its largest investor.
Why Excel has become the new battleground for AI in finance
The decision to build directly into Excel is hardly accidental. Excel remains the lingua franca of finance, the digital workspace where analysts spend countless hours constructing financial models, running valuations, and stress-testing assumptions. By embedding Claude into this environment, Anthropic is meeting financial professionals exactly where they work rather than asking them to toggle between applications.
Claude for Excel allows users to work with the AI in a sidebar where it can read, analyze, modify, and create new Excel workbooks while providing full transparency about the actions it takes by tracking and explaining changes and letting users navigate directly to referenced cells.
This transparency feature addresses one of the most persistent anxieties around AI in finance: the "black box" problem. When billions of dollars ride on a financial model's output, analysts need to understand not just the answer but how the AI arrived at it. By showing its work at the cell level, Anthropic is attempting to build the trust necessary for widespread adoption in an industry where careers and fortunes can turn on a misplaced decimal point.
The technical implementation is sophisticated. Claude can discuss how spreadsheets work, modify them while preserving formula dependencies — a notoriously complex task — debug cell formulas, populate templates with new data, or build entirely new spreadsheets from scratch. This isn't merely a chatbot that answers questions about your data; it's a collaborative tool that can actively manipulate the models that drive investment decisions worth trillions of dollars.
How Anthropic is building data moats around its financial AI platform
Perhaps more significant than the Excel integration is Anthropic's expansion of its connector ecosystem, which now links Claude to live market data and proprietary research from financial information giants. The company added six major new data partnerships spanning the entire spectrum of financial information that professional investors rely upon.
Aiera now provides Claude with real-time earnings call transcripts and summaries of investor events like shareholder meetings, presentations, and conferences. The Aiera connector also enables a data feed from Third Bridge, which gives Claude access to a library of insights interviews, company intelligence, and industry analysis from experts and former executives. Chronograph gives private equity investors operational and financial information for portfolio monitoring and conducting due diligence, including performance metrics, valuations, and fund-level data.
Egnyte enables Claude to securely search permitted data for internal data rooms, investment documents, and approved financial models while maintaining governed access controls. LSEG, the London Stock Exchange Group, connects Claude to live market data including fixed income pricing, equities, foreign exchange rates, macroeconomic indicators, and analysts' estimates of other important financial metrics. Moody's provides access to proprietary credit ratings, research, and company data covering ownership, financials, and news on more than 600 million public and private companies, supporting work and research in compliance, credit analysis, and business development. MT Newswires provides Claude with access to the latest global multi-asset class news on financial markets and economies.
These partnerships amount to a land grab for the informational infrastructure that powers modern finance. Previously announced in July, Anthropic had already secured integrations with S&P Capital IQ, Daloopa, Morningstar, FactSet, PitchBook, Snowflake, and Databricks. Together, these connectors give Claude access to virtually every category of financial data an analyst might need: fundamental company data, market prices, credit assessments, private company intelligence, alternative data, and breaking news.
This matters because the quality of AI outputs depends entirely on the quality of inputs. Generic large language models trained on public internet data simply cannot compete with systems that have direct pipelines to Bloomberg-quality financial information. By securing these partnerships, Anthropic is building moats around its financial services offering that competitors will find difficult to replicate.
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