Raycast Launches Glaze, a Platform for Building Desktop Apps Through AI Prompts
Raycast's Glaze lets Mac users build native desktop apps through AI prompts. Private beta with public store, free tier, and $20/month paid plans.
Raycast Launches Glaze, a Platform for Building Desktop Apps Through AI Prompts
Raycast's Glaze lets Mac users build native desktop apps through AI prompts. Private beta with public store, free tier, and $20/month paid plans.
Accenture Bought the Internet's Referee. The Conflict Writes Itself.
Accenture acquires Speedtest and Downdetector owner Ookla for $1.2 billion, raising conflict-of-interest questions for telecom's top consultant.
15 CLI Tools That Make AI-Assisted Coding in the Terminal Actually Bearable
Fifteen CLI utilities that keep developers oriented while AI coding agents rewrite their codebases in real time
AI News
Google Traces US Government iPhone Exploit Kit to Russian Spies and Criminals
Google identifies Coruna, a 23-exploit iOS toolkit linked to US intelligence, now used by Russian spies and Chinese criminals. 42,000 devices hit
Anthropic Adds Voice Mode to Claude Code, Starting With 5% of Users
Anthropic begins rolling out voice mode for Claude Code, letting developers speak commands via push-to-talk. Free for Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.3 Instant With 27% Fewer Hallucinations and a Less Preachy Tone
GPT-5.3 Instant rolls out to all ChatGPT users with up to 26.8% fewer hallucinations, reduced refusals, and a less defensive tone.
Meta Tests AI Shopping Tool That Uses Location and Gender to Recommend Products
Meta tests AI shopping in its chatbot using location and gender data. No checkout, no confirmed revenue model. Select US users only.
Analysis
Block's 24% Stock Jump Will Cost More Jobs Than Its AI Ever Could
Block cut 4,000 jobs during record profits. The stock jumped 24%. The market reward creates a template every CEO will copy.
Google Stopped Selling Image Generation. Everyone Else Still Does.
Google's Nano Banana 2 makes Pro-tier image generation free across Search, cutting API prices 50% as Alibaba's open-weight model threatens.
Salesforce Beat Every Number. SaaS-Angst Won Anyway.
Salesforce beat every Q4 estimate but stock fell 5%. Agentforce ARR hit $800M, just 1.9% of revenue. SaaS-Angst is winning.
AI Already Divides Schools by Income. Pew Measured the Gap at 3 to 1.
Low-income teens are three times more likely to depend on AI for schoolwork. Pew's data reveals a class divide, not a cheating problem.
Politics
Anthropic Rejected Pentagon Demand to Analyze Americans' Data, Reports Reveal
Anthropic walked from $200M Pentagon deal over bulk surveillance of Americans. OpenAI took the contract. Claude still runs on classified networks
OpenAI Signed the Pentagon Deal. Anthropic Wrote It.
OpenAI's Pentagon contract includes cloud-only deployment and time-locked legal baselines that Anthropic's earlier deal lacked. Analysis of why.
OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Claims the Same Red Lines That Got Anthropic Blacklisted
Altman announced a Pentagon AI deal with the same red lines Anthropic was blacklisted for. OpenAI lacks classified infrastructure to deploy it.
Trump Treated Anthropic Like Huawei. Silicon Valley Chose a Side.
Trump blacklisted Anthropic from all government work and the Pentagon labeled it a supply chain risk. The AI industry's response reveals a structural break with Washington.
Vibe Coding
What Builders Are Making With Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI
A curated showcase of projects built with AI coding tools. Browse featured work or submit your own.
Anthropic Says Cache Misses Are Production Incidents, Reveals Caching Shaped Claude Code
Anthropic's Claude Code team treats cache hit rate drops as production incidents. Manus arrived at the same conclusions independently.
Simon Willison Ships Rodney v0.4.0, a Browser Automation CLI Built for Coding Agents
Simon Willison's Rodney v0.4.0 lets AI coding agents drive Chrome and capture screenshots to prove their work. Eight PRs in one week.
Vibe Coding Got a Promotion. Nobody Checked Its Work.
Karpathy renamed vibe coding to 'agentic engineering.' The $45 billion industry's security record suggests the upgrade is premature.
Funding
SambaNova's second life. A $350 million bet that Intel can't build alone
SambaNova raised $350M after Intel acquisition talks collapsed. SN50 chip targets Nvidia with Intel co-selling deal.
Slang AI Proved Restaurants Need Voice AI. Now It Needs to Prove They Need Slang.
Slang AI closed a $36M Series B to expand beyond voice into text and hotels. 2,000+ locations, 25M calls, and a market filling with rivals.
Pentagon software runs on code older than its recruits. Code Metal's $125 million fix.
Code Metal's AI translates aging Pentagon code into modern languages with formal verification. A $1.25B bet on defense's worst problem.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion From Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for Spatial AI
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for spatial AI. The startup opened its 3D generator Marble to the public.
AI Research
Your Anonymous Posts Cost $4 to Trace. The Price Is Still Falling.
ETH Zurich and Anthropic researchers matched 226 anonymous Hacker News accounts to real identities at 90% precision using standard LLM tasks.
Researchers Propose Biosecurity Data Levels to Control AI Access to Pathogen Datasets
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
Anthropic Study Finds 1 in 1,000 Claude Conversations Risk Distorting Users' Grip on Reality
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
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