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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, renewable energy projects, Boots

(Sharecast News) - Anthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas. Dubbed Fable 5, the model is the first to be made widely available from the company's new Mythos class - its most advanced lineup of AI technology, unveiled in April but restricted to a small set of partner institutions for months over cybersecurity concerns. - Guardian More than half the renewable energy projects needed to meet the government's clean power targets by 2030 are now able to plug into the electricity grid after years of delay, according to the system operator. The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has offered more than 700 clean energy projects in Great Britain a grid connection date since the start of the year, after a two-year process to unblock a bottleneck that threatened to delay projects into the 2030s. - Guardian

Boots is in talks to sell itself for £7.5bn to the family behind Primark and an Australian pharmacy chain. The billionaire Weston family, which owns Primark, is weighing up a bid that would see the chemist scrap plans for a London listing, according to the Financial Times. - Telegraph

VodafoneThree has tabled a bid to buy the consumer division of struggling broadband provider TalkTalk. The telecoms giant, which was formed through a £15bn mega-merger a year ago, is understood to have entered the running to acquire around 1.75 million residential internet customers. - Telegraph

A self-driving car start-up is considering allowing its investors to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's trading platform for private businesses, which would be a boost for the fledgling exchange. Wayve, which develops software for autonomous vehicles and is one of the UK's most valuable AI start-ups, is said to looking to let its early backers sell shares though the exchange's private securities market, Pisces, a trading platform for private businesses launched this year. - The Times

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