Anthropic files to go public

The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO.

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them. 

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Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn’t designed to supplant human programmers.

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Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind

A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas.

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Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary.

Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.