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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=46bd39e251&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df3f661703&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The friction to start coding has dropped massively in just the past two years. This is the next step where you can go from idea to working app without touching an IDE or a terminal. The gap between thinking of something and building it keeps shrinking.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b6058d0558&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">My notes on Claude Code for web, Anthropic's new asynchronous coding agent - I had preview access over the weekend, it's effectively a sandboxed instance of “claude —dangerously-skip-permissions” running in Anthropic's container </a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bf53d3efb2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK CMA says Getty Images and Shutterstock's $3.7B merger raises competition concerns and gives the companies until October 27 to make a plan to address them</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ian Walker / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cd9276ec5b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Antonio Regalado / </span><span class="pub_name">MIT Technology Review</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73b04abdcc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Capoot / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74c7a77a55&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Webb Wright / </span><span class="pub_name">ZDNET</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b5de23053e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vincent Chow / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5f4a8d3950&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1e6f7dafeb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over users' browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI bots can be confusing and unreliable</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=19eb7fe0c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Mozur / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alicia Park / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1337888ef4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=54f0ce5a54&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CleanSpark shares jump 12%+ after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Pan / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b29b0966d3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical professionals, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after a $210M Series B in July</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael J. de la Merced / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=852aea60aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">LangChain, whose open-source framework connects AI apps to real-time data, raised a $125M Series B led by IVP at a $1.25B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sharon Goldman / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8e82e80f0b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based CoMind, which develops a non-invasive brain monitoring device with Lidar-like tech, raised $60M led by Plural, taking its total funding to $102.5M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5cc8b10ad8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Doc: Google launched a Trusted Tester program that will select 15 of its “Superfans” to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1dddda9454&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Oura launches a redesigned app with a new feature showing a weekly overview of stress management and says it's working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael Paulson / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Julia Black / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Carol Ryan / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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