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Apple is testing AI smart glasses
“Apple is actively testing four different frame designs for smart glasses that they're like their goal is to go sell these in 2027. I think this is Apple basically accepting reality that the Vision Pros did not land the way they hoped, and so they're going to hopefully move into something that has a lot more market appeal and people are a lot more excited about.”
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Vercel signals readiness for a public IPO
“Vercell's CEO is Guillaume Rauch... he recently said the company's annual recurring revenue has gone from about $100 million at the start of 2024 to a run rate of $340 million by the end of February this year. When he was asked about an IPO, he basically said that Vercell is 'very much a working public company' and that it's 'ready and getting more ready every day.'”
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Anthropic restricts third-party tool usage
“Anthropic temporarily banned the creator of OpenClaw... basically, this happened shortly after Anthropic changed their pricing so that Claude subscriptions no longer covered usage through third party tools like OpenClaw. Users now have to pay separately through the API, so they can't just use the Claude Mac subscription, which, to be fair, is a subsidized subscription.”
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Banks test Anthropic Mythos for security
“Trump officials are apparently encouraging banks to test Anthropics' Mythos model. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell brought banks and executives in for a meeting this week, and they encouraged them to use this new model to detect security vulnerabilities.”
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Sam Altman home faces security threat
“Early on Friday morning, someone came in through a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home in San Francisco. Nobody was hurt. The suspect was later arrested at OpenAI headquarters where he was threatening to burn the building down. This came just a couple of days after the New Yorker published a really long investigation.”