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Claude & Anthropic

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Why I Wouldn't Bother With the Anthropic or OpenAI IPOs - The Motley Fool

Why I Wouldn't Bother With the Anthropic or OpenAI IPOs The Motley Fool

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

AI chip startup Fractile seeks $6.5B valuation after Anthropic deal - report (ANTHRO:Private) - Seeking Alpha

AI chip startup Fractile seeks $6.5B valuation after Anthropic deal - report (ANTHRO:Private) Seeking Alpha

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

‘Strike a Pose’ in AI. OpenAI, Anthropic & Apple. ARD #144 - AI: Reset to Zero

‘Strike a Pose’ in AI. OpenAI, Anthropic & Apple. ARD #144 AI: Reset to Zero

Claude Code Releases Aug 19

Release: v2.1.236

## What's changed - Added `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL` environment variable: sets the model new sessions start on, while a `/model` pick still overrides it and persists across restarts (unlike `ANTHROPIC_MODEL`) - Added `notify_when_idle` to cross-session `SendMessage`: ask another…

Claude Code Commits Aug 19

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

chore: Update CHANGELOG.md and feed.xml

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

OpenAI revenue growth dissapoints as Anthropic pulls ahead - Yahoo Finance

OpenAI revenue growth dissapoints as Anthropic pulls ahead Yahoo Finance

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

OpenAI revenue growth disappoints as Anthropic pulls ahead - Yahoo Finance

OpenAI revenue growth disappoints as Anthropic pulls ahead Yahoo Finance

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ - New York Post

Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ New York Post

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Eagle Point Backs $1.3B Loan for Anthropic-Anchored Texas Data Center - Benzinga

Eagle Point Backs $1.3B Loan for Anthropic-Anchored Texas Data Center Benzinga

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Anthropic’s Claude can now send Gmail emails without asking first - Mashable

Anthropic’s Claude can now send Gmail emails without asking first Mashable

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS - The Register

Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS The Register

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Fractile in talks to raise at a $6.5bn valuation - The Next Web

Fractile in talks to raise at a $6.5bn valuation The Next Web

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it - The Next Web

Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it The Next Web

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Chip Firm Fractile Seeks $6.5 Billion Value After Anthropic Deal - Bloomberg News - TradingView

Chip Firm Fractile Seeks $6.5 Billion Value After Anthropic Deal - Bloomberg News TradingView

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 19

Chip Firm Fractile Seeks $6.5 Billion Value After Anthropic Deal - Bloomberg

Chip Firm Fractile Seeks $6.5 Billion Value After Anthropic Deal Bloomberg

Other LLMs

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Is Getting A Mac App - wersm.com

Meta AI Is Getting A Mac App wersm.com

OpenAI Blog Aug 19

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI gets a Mac app aimed at creators and businesses - The Next Web

Meta AI gets a Mac app aimed at creators and businesses The Next Web

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Lands on Mac With Screen Sharing and a Business Pitch - Unite.AI

Meta AI Lands on Mac With Screen Sharing and a Business Pitch Unite.AI

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Comes to Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Account Access - Unite.AI

Meta AI Comes to Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Account Access Unite.AI

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI comes to Mac in a new desktop app - AppleInsider

Meta AI comes to Mac in a new desktop app AppleInsider

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Debuts on Mac: It Watches, It Will Not Touch - SQ Magazine

Meta AI Debuts on Mac: It Watches, It Will Not Touch SQ Magazine

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Adds Small Business Tools for Ads, Analytics and Reports - Small Business Trends

Meta AI Adds Small Business Tools for Ads, Analytics and Reports Small Business Trends

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen-Sharing Features - techbuzz.ai

Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen-Sharing Features techbuzz.ai

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI is now available as a more capable desktop app for Mac - 9to5Mac

Meta AI is now available as a more capable desktop app for Mac 9to5Mac

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI Now Has A Dedicated Desktop App For Mac - Engadget

Meta AI Now Has A Dedicated Desktop App For Mac Engadget

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta's new Mac app takes aim at creators, small businesses - Axios

Meta's new Mac app takes aim at creators, small businesses Axios

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Meta AI is getting a Mac app - The Verge

Meta AI is getting a Mac app The Verge

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 19

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Endorses Meta’s AI Strategy - The Cryptonomist

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Endorses Meta’s AI Strategy The Cryptonomist

Hugging Face Blog Aug 19

LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation

Industry AI News

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

We Can't Agree on What Counts as "AI-Written"

Article URL: https://bookriot.com/what-counts-as-ai-survey-results/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366535 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Show HN: I let an AI agent brick my $2.51 ESP32 on purpose

Article URL: https://github.com/GLechevalier/nff-core Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366373 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Daily Reminder to Not Listen to Google's AI Overview

Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/19/daily-reminder-to-not-listen-to-googles-ai-overview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366075 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Show HN: LLM-as-a-Verifier Plugin for DeepSeek Harness

Article URL: https://github.com/uson1x/dsh-plugin-llm-verifier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366057 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

SpaceX Attempted to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cognition

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-attempted-to-acquire-ai-coding-startup-cognition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366053 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Reproducible, AI-driven large scale changes

Article URL: https://jeanbza.github.io/ai/infrastructure/2026/08/08/ai-det-stoch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366017 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Show HN: Notula – where humans edit the Markdown your AI agents read

Article URL: https://notula.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365980 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

TechCrunch AI Aug 19

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Internal memo: Eight execs out at Expedia Group in AI-driven shakeup

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/internal-memo-eight-execs-out-at-expedia-group-in-ai-driven-shakeup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365900 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

Mark Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto Shows How Little the AI Future Offers

Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/meta_future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365831 Points: 6 # Comments: 3

TechCrunch AI Aug 19

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

The Verge AI Aug 19

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebook…

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

New term in AI search: On-site live agents

Article URL: https://embassia.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365673 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 19

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI in op-ed

Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-professor-admits-to-using-ai-in-op-ed-calling-out-students-lack-of/article_be1360f7-6e2a-42f6-ae76-f05d8cee74c4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365646 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

TechCrunch AI Aug 19

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.