·TechCrunch
Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate reportedly reached $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of last year. Investors expect the A...
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·The Verge
Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
Reddit is experimenting with converting some text posts and comments into short videos using AI voices. The clips highlight the text as it is read and disclose that the content is...
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·timmarinin.net
Bluesky uses an iOS secure text field trick to reveal its logo only when users take screenshots
A developer noticed that Bluesky’s logo appears in screenshots where the app normally shows a Follow button. Inspecting Bluesky’s open source code showed it uses an iOS secure text...
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·fabiensanglard.net
Fabien Sanglard revisits how id Software’s Quake shareware CD packed encrypted full games onto oversized 1990s media
The article looks back at id Software’s 1996 Quake shareware CD, which used only a small fraction of CD-ROM capacity for the demo and filled the rest with encrypted full versions o...
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·catcrafts.net
Fairphone 6 on postmarketOS gains working main camera driver with autofocus, as emergency calling tests move ahead
A developer says the Fairphone 6 now has a working main camera on postmarketOS, building on prior wide-lens work and adding autofocus plus early color correction. Image quality rem...
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·VentureBeat
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, just hours before GitHub suffered a nearly seven-hour global degradation affecting pull requests, APIs, enterprise S...
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·TechCrunch
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, an AI automation startup, is shutting down, and its staff is joining Google’s Chrome team. Founder and CEO Jacob Bank said Google has ambitious plans to help users work with...
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