Vibe coding Anything nabs a $100M valuation, after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks
Anything raised an $11 million funding round led by Footwork.
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Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks
Anything raised an $11 million funding round led by Footwork.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy
Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task. The model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, was announced today, and its ability to operate […]
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, its best AI model for coding
Anthropic says its new AI model is robust enough to build production-ready applications, rather than just prototypes.
OpenAI rolls out safety routing system, parental controls on ChatGPT
The new safety features come after numerous incidents of ChatGPT validating users’ delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations — including the death of a teenage boy by suicide.
OpenAI’s parental controls are out — here’s what you should know
OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company. The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content — like sexual roleplay and the ability to generate images — and reducing the level of personalization on ChatGPT conversations by […]
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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A […]