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Anthropic unveils new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max

Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running its AI coding tool, Claude Code.

Harmonic, the Robinhood CEO’s AI math startup, launches an AI chatbot app

With this beta launch, Harmonic claims to offer “hallucination-free” answers for questions involving mathematical reasoning using its AI model Aristotle — a bold claim given the reliability problems of today’s AI models.

Anthropic in talks to raise fresh capital at $170 billion valuation

In a funding round led by Iconiq Capital, Anthropic would nearly triple its valuation from just four months ago.

ElevenLabs Makes Building Conversational AI Agents Easy with New CLI

Developers can now roll back changes, track updates via Git, and sync agents with its platform

Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable

The money is going toward building out Showrunner, which Fable has hyped as the Netflix of AI, a service that lets you type in a few words to create scenes or entire episodes of a TV show.

Trending In Tech

Google introduces new upgrades to its AI research assistant, NotebookLM

Enables users with the ability to store multiple studio outputs in a single notebook, including Video Overviews, Audio Overviews, Mind Maps and Reports.

ChatGPT introduces study mode

A new way to learn in ChatGPT that offers step by step guidance instead of quick answers.

Over-the-Air Lasers Aim to Solve the Internet’s “Middle Mile”

Google spin-off beams 20 gigabits per second across kilometers

OpenAI Hiring Engineers to Build the ‘World’s Most Innovative Mobile Devices’

Multiple positions in the consumer hardware sector hints what the company might develop for its upcoming device given its collaboration with former Apple design lead Jony Ive.

Meta's Vision for Superintelligence

Mark Zuckerberg envisions a future where deeply personalized superintelligent AI lives in wearable devices like smart glasses, empowering individuals to achieve their goals while Meta navigates the balance between open access and safety.

Expert Opinion

The Perils of Mobile Cross-Platform Tools

This article briefly reviews the history of cross-platform tools, explores their shortcomings and explains why developers of non-trivial cross-platform apps face a continual uphill struggle.

The 2034 Website

MIT's 6.UAT class had a website that lasted 15 years. It was redesigned to last till 2034.

Paying down tech debt

A guide for reducing tech debt effectively by principal engineer Lou Franco

Vibe coding: not worth the risk?

Thousands of user images, IDs exposed. AI agent deleting production data despite explicit freeze orders.

9 Luxury Color Palettes That Capture High-End Design in 2025

From a designer who has worked with premium brands for over a decade.

How Stuff Works

Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-hour Coding Workshop

A 3-hour Youtube video on implementing, training, and using LLMs, including GPT-2 and Llama 2.

Query Fan-Out Technique in AI Mode: New Details From Google

Google’s VP of Product for Search, Robby Stein shares new details about the query fan-out technique in AI Mode, explaining how Google generates and executes its own queries.