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here's your tnb tech Minute for Friday, November 22nd.

I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon is investing an additional $4 billion in Artificial Intelligence startup,

Anthropic, doubling its investment to $8 billion as it aims to compete in the AI arms race.

Amazon is a minority owner of San Francisco-based Anthropic, which describes itself as an AI safety and research company.

With Amazon's new investment, Anthropics said it planned to work on machine learning hardware

and further develop its AI assistant Claude. The journal reported last year

that Anthropic committed to spend $4 billion on Amazon's cloud platform over the next five years.

Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market, says that it's blocking users in France from placing new bets.

The move comes two weeks after the country's national gambling regulator

said it was investigating the startup over its compliance with French laws.

The change also highlights Polly Markets mounting legal difficulties

after it drew widespread attention for its better's correct call that Donald Trump

would win the U.S. presidential election. A mystery trader known as the Trump will, whom Polly Market

identified as a French national, made a profit of around $85 million with his massive bets on a Trump victory.

Polymarket is off limits to U.S. users under the terms of a 2022 settlement with the Commodity

Futures Trading Commission, although traders say the ban can be circumvented.

And the UK's competition and markets authority says that its experts recommended investigating

Apple and Google's dominance in smartphones under the country's new digital competition rules.

The CMA alleges that the two tech giants can manipulate users into choosing their own apps and services over that of their rivals.

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