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Claude Code Releases Aug 17

Release: v2.1.234

## What's changed - Added the optional `CLAUDE_CODE_PROJECT_DIR_NAME` environment variable: hosts that give each session its own config directory can choose a short name for the per-project transcript directory - Added the `selection:clear` keybinding action, so a key can be bou…

Claude Code Commits Aug 17

Commit: chore: Update CHANGELOG.md and feed.xml

chore: Update CHANGELOG.md and feed.xml

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic Has A Revenue Run Rate That Tops $65 Billion - Crowdfund Insider

Anthropic Has A Revenue Run Rate That Tops $65 Billion Crowdfund Insider

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Amazon's Stake in Anthropic Is Now Big Enough to Move Its Earnings. Here's How That Compares to Alphabet's Stake in SpaceX. - The Motley Fool

Amazon's Stake in Anthropic Is Now Big Enough to Move Its Earnings. Here's How That Compares to Alphabet's Stake in SpaceX. The Motley Fool

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Rapid7, ServiceNow, and monday.com Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know - stockstory.org

Rapid7, ServiceNow, and monday.com Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know stockstory.org

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Round Hill Music Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Suno and Anthropic - Business Wire

Round Hill Music Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Suno and Anthropic Business Wire

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

‘Hidden Figures’ in AI. Big Tech, Stripe & Anthropic. ARD #142 - AI: Reset to Zero

‘Hidden Figures’ in AI. Big Tech, Stripe & Anthropic. ARD #142 AI: Reset to Zero

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic's $200 Billion Revenue Forecast Reshapes IPO Math - GuruFocus

Anthropic's $200 Billion Revenue Forecast Reshapes IPO Math GuruFocus

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic's annual revenue run rate tops $65B: report (ANTHRO:Private) - Seeking Alpha

Anthropic's annual revenue run rate tops $65B: report (ANTHRO:Private) Seeking Alpha

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Hit $65 Billion By The End Of July - Bloomberg News - TradingView

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Hit $65 Billion By The End Of July - Bloomberg News TradingView

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $65 Billion Ahead of IPO - Bloomberg.com

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $65 Billion Ahead of IPO Bloomberg.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format? - The New Stack

Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format? The New Stack

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

John Gruber Calls Claude's AI Watermarking 'Patently Offensive' - Business Insider

John Gruber Calls Claude's AI Watermarking 'Patently Offensive' Business Insider

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Can Anthropic’s $65B AI funding push its valuation to $2 trillion? - Cryptonews.net

Can Anthropic’s $65B AI funding push its valuation to $2 trillion? Cryptonews.net

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 17

Anthropic CEO Says AI Could Cure Most Human Disease in 5-10 Years — but Admits Big Promises Haven't Lande - Benzinga

Anthropic CEO Says AI Could Cure Most Human Disease in 5-10 Years — but Admits Big Promises Haven't Lande Benzinga

Other LLMs

Hugging Face Blog Aug 17

Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Meta, FG partner to increase AI skills, startup innovation in Nigeria - Business News Nigeria

Meta, FG partner to increase AI skills, startup innovation in Nigeria Business News Nigeria

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

New Meta AI Glasses Surface With Facial Recognition for Automatic Recording - hi-Tech.ua

New Meta AI Glasses Surface With Facial Recognition for Automatic Recording hi-Tech.ua

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Danish political party seeks ban on Meta AI glasses over privacy, consent issues - Anadolu Ajansı

Danish political party seeks ban on Meta AI glasses over privacy, consent issues Anadolu Ajansı

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Meta, FG to inaugurate AI academy to train Nigerian talents - Realnews Magazine

Meta, FG to inaugurate AI academy to train Nigerian talents Realnews Magazine

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Alibaba fires back at Meta with laptop-ready AI model - The Tech Buzz

Alibaba fires back at Meta with laptop-ready AI model The Tech Buzz

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Alibaba answers Meta’s AI challenge with new laptop-ready model - CNBC

Alibaba answers Meta’s AI challenge with new laptop-ready model CNBC

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 17

Meta, Others Announce AI Academy to Strengthen AI Talent in Nigeria ($14k) - Tech Build Africa

Meta, Others Announce AI Academy to Strengthen AI Talent in Nigeria ($14k) Tech Build Africa

Mistral AI (Google News) Aug 17

Mistral and Devstral – The European LLM - devmio

Mistral and Devstral – The European LLM devmio

OpenAI Blog Aug 17

The Defender’s Window

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.

OpenAI Blog Aug 17

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs

OpenAI Blog Aug 17

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 16

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future - Yahoo Tech

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future Yahoo Tech

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 16

How to Use Meta AI Muse Image: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026] - tech-insider.org

How to Use Meta AI Muse Image: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026] tech-insider.org

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 15

Meta AI Data Centre Power Deal Could Be A Game Changer For Capital Power (TSX:CPX) - webull.com

Meta AI Data Centre Power Deal Could Be A Game Changer For Capital Power (TSX:CPX) webull.com

Industry AI News

MIT Tech Review AI Aug 17

What Flock’s defenders are missing

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, announced some changes to i…

TechCrunch AI Aug 17

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

TechCrunch AI Aug 17

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

TechCrunch AI Aug 17

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Ars Technica Aug 17

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

TechCrunch AI Aug 17

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

The Verge AI Aug 17

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source…

MIT Tech Review AI Aug 17

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years the…

The Verge AI Aug 16

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and ha…

TechCrunch AI Aug 16

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

TechCrunch AI Aug 16

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

TechCrunch AI Aug 16

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

The Verge AI Aug 16

ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can…

The Verge AI Aug 16

Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one o…

TechCrunch AI Aug 15

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."