⚡ AI News
Anthropic deepens Claude discount deal for US government: Anthropic now gives every US federal, state and local agency a 40% Claude discount, citing $1B in savings.

Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT medication death: Parents allege ChatGPT coached their epileptic daughter to taper off her seizure medication before she died.

Opera proposes WebAI standard for local AI in browsers: Opera's new WebAI standard lets browsers run open models like Gemma locally, without needing a cloud server.

An open-source InDesign alternative, built in pure Rust

DesignCraft is a full desktop publishing and layout editor, written entirely in Rust.
It threads text through columns, wraps it around pull quotes, and can hand the whole job to an agent.

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Own it outright: open-source layout editor, built in pure Rust

Familiar workspace: the panels, tools and shortcuts of real publishing software

Threaded text: flows through columns and wraps around pull quotes

Line breaks that hold: its paragraph composer keeps them identical on screen and in PDF

Claude can design pages: every menu runs over its own MCP server

What's inside

A Knuth-Plass paragraph composer, dictionary hyphenation (the public domain Moby word list plus the project's own trained patterns), optical margin alignment, columns, baseline grid, tabs, rules and shading. Line breaks match exactly between the on-screen view and the exported PDF.

One Rust codebase runs the desktop app on macOS, Windows and Linux, and compiles to WebAssembly for the browser. Every menu item, tool gesture and dialog can also be driven over a JSON control channel and an MCP server, so Claude or another agent can lay out pages itself.

The editor is free and open-source (MIT OR Apache-2.0): no subscription, no licence server, no telemetry. Handing the layout job to an agent needs your own Claude access or another MCP-capable model. That part isn't free.

Requires: Rust 1.95 or newer to build the desktop app (the egui frontend), plus a Rust toolchain and cargo. The project doesn't list extra hardware requirements.

The catch: this is a brand-new project, already carrying 724 open issues on its tracker.

Try it: cargo run --release -p designcraft -- --sample opens the sample magazine; cargo run --release -p designcraft-cli -- run --sample --all-pages out/ renders every page headless to PNG.

Use it instead of Scribus or InDesign if you want a scriptable, agent-drivable layout tool in Rust. Don't use it yet if you need a mature, issue-free production pipeline.

https://github.com/storytold/designcraft

You rank on Google. AI search might skip you anyway.

Claude SEO is a free Claude Code plugin that checks whether both Google and AI search find and trust your site, then hands you a ranked plan.

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Full SEO sweep: crawl errors, Core Web Vitals, schema, AI citations

Parallel agents: one command, up to seventeen agents audit your site at once

One ranked plan: results in ten to fifteen minutes, sorted by impact

Its own proof: claude-seo.md got the same audit from day one: 10.8K clicks, a 99 score, in twelve weeks

The catch: needs Python 3.11 through 3.14, plus its own Chromium

Inside the audit

Claude SEO is a Claude Code plugin built from 26 sub-skills and 19 specialist agents (Sonnet and Opus). It covers technical SEO, E-E-A-T, schema, GEO/AEO (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), agent readiness, backlinks, local and e-commerce SEO.

Run /seo audit <url> and up to 17 agents work the site at once. 10 to 15 minutes later you get one prioritized action plan; each item explains why it matters.

The 10.8K clicks and 99 mobile PageSpeed score are the project's own figures, from running the tool on its own site, claude-seo.md, since launch, over its first 12 weeks. That is the authors' own result, not an independent benchmark.

Requires: Python 3.11 through 3.14 and its own Chromium runtime (set up once via /seo setup), plus Claude Code itself. The plugin is free; Claude Code needs a Claude subscription or API key, so the model calls behind each audit are not free.

The catch: this is a local Python runtime plugin, not a hosted service, so the one-time setup (Python version, Chromium download) has to succeed before the first audit. Nine optional extensions add live SEO data but need their own API keys.

Use it instead of a manual SEO consultant pass when you want a scored, ranked fix list in minutes. Skip it if you don't already run Claude Code, or if you need results without any setup step.

Try it: /seo setup, then /seo doctor to check the runtime, then /seo audit https://yoursite.com.

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

⚡ AI News
Anthropic launches Smart Reports for AI spend: Anthropic's new Smart Reports track Claude ROI for teams, as the company posts 900% net revenue retention and a Q2 operating profit.

Google opens Gemini and Search to outside apps: Google's new Connected Apps Platform lets developers plug services into Gemini and Search, building on 50+ existing partners.

Nvidia releases open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe model: Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe handles 40 languages and an hour of audio, topping the Open ASR leaderboard.

Cursor just turned its AI agent into an app store

Your coding agent couldn't talk to Stripe or query Datadog logs. Cursor shipped something called Plugins, right inside the editor, to fix exactly that.

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Rules, skills and MCP in one install: a plugin bundles everything the agent needs to use an outside tool

100+ plugins already live: Stripe, Figma, Datadog, GitLab, installed from the Marketplace or /add-plugin

Not the old VS Code marketplace: classic editor extensions still come from the separate Open VSX registry

Built together with rivals: AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI and Vercel shipped one open plugin format

One catch: plugins only run from Cursor 2.5 onward

What a plugin bundles

A Cursor plugin packages rules, skills, subagents, MCP servers, hooks and commands together, so the agent gets both instructions and a live connector to act on a tool like Stripe, Linear, AWS, Slack or Figma, per Cursor's own plugin docs.

The Marketplace launched with Cursor 2.5 on Feb 17, 2026, with partner plugins from Amplitude, AWS, Figma, Linear, Stripe, Cloudflare, Vercel, Databricks, Snowflake and Hex, according to Cursor's launch blog post. A later wave added 30+ more, including Datadog (query logs, metrics and traces in plain language), GitLab, Atlassian and Glean. Cursor's own cursor/plugins GitHub repo, which hosts the spec, has passed 14,500 stars and lists 100+ plugins, per the repo itself.

In August 2026, Cursor joined a five-company steering committee with AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI and Vercel to ship "Agent Plugins 1.0", an open, vendor-neutral format. Build a plugin once and, per AWS's own announcement, it can run in Cursor, VS Code, Kiro or any other client that implements the same spec.

Cost: installing a plugin itself is free. Cursor is a separate paid product with a free tier. The README doesn't say whether Plugins need a paid plan. Each connected service, Stripe, Datadog, AWS, still needs its own account and API key.

Requires: Cursor 2.5 or later; an account and API key for whatever service a plugin talks to; the project doesn't list any extra hardware requirements.

The catch: plugins are a separate layer from the classic VS Code-style extensions Cursor already installs. Those still come from Open VSX, not Microsoft's marketplace, and nothing here works before Cursor 2.5.

Use it instead of hand-writing MCP configs for every tool, when you want the agent wired into your stack in one install. Don't use it if you're on an older Cursor build, or if you only want classic editor extensions.

Try it inside Cursor with /add-plugin, or browse plugins at cursor.com/marketplace.

https://github.com/cursor/plugins

⚡ AI News
Microsoft discloses $10B quarterly revenue from OpenAI: Microsoft earned $10B from its OpenAI deal last quarter, nearly 11% of its total revenue, with $7.2B still owed.

Google's Gemini app hits 1 billion monthly users: Alphabet's Q3 revenue rose 25% to $127.6B, with Cloud up 103% and Gemini now at 1 billion monthly users.

Anthropic expands AI for Science to 20 institutions: Anthropic grew its free Claude credits program to 20 science funders, research institutes and projects like FlyWire and gnomAD.

One repo, dozens of apps: open-source clones of the SaaS you pay for

The video opened on a wall of app screenshots: this project rebuilds the office and collaboration tools you already pay for, from scratch, as open source.

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Office, rebuilt: Spreadsheet, Documents and Presentation stand in for Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Meetings and chat, too: Meetings, Teamchat and Email take on Zoom, Slack and Gmail

Reaches further: README also lists Photoshop and AutoCAD style apps in Creative Tools, Engineering

The catch: a few apps, like Notes and Signatures, ship source only, with no live demo yet

Already live: Office, Meetings and Teamchat apps are free, open source and usable today

What's in the repo

Everything is a single monorepo where every app lives in its own folder under src/: Spreadsheet, Documents, Presentation, Whiteboard, PDF, Notes and Records cover office work; Meetings, Teamchat, Email, Contacts, Calendar and Signatures cover collaboration. The README's table of contents also names Creative Tools, Engineering, Productivity, Finance, Business, Developer Tools and Games sections, which is where the Photoshop and AutoCAD style apps from the video belong.

There's no benchmark or performance number here. This is the project's own stated goal: to rebuild and open-source the world's software, counted in apps shipped, not a measured speed or accuracy claim by anyone.

These are plain self-hosted web apps, not AI wrappers, so the tool itself is free with no model or API bill attached. Some apps already have a hosted demo you can open straight in a browser, for example spreadsheet.puter.com and meetings.puter.com. Others, like Notes and Signatures, ship source only, with no live demo link yet.

Requires: Node.js 22.12 or newer, git, npm.

git clone https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything.git
cd everything/src/[app-name]
npm install
npm run dev

Use it instead of Microsoft 365, Zoom or Slack if you want a free, self-hosted stand-in you can run yourself. Don't expect it to replace them today if you need their polish, integrations or mobile apps.

github.com/HeyPuter/everything

The Everything Project vs Nextcloud Hub

Both pitch self-hosted, open-source replacements for your SaaS stack: Puter's Everything project rebuilds Office, Zoom, Slack, Photoshop and AutoCAD from scratch as separate MIT apps, while Nextcloud Hub bundles office, chat, file sync and calls into one mature platform used by millions. Anyone picking a self-hosted Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace alternative weighs these two.

Pick The Everything Project if you want free MIT source for dozens of app categories, including creative and CAD tools, to adapt piece by piece, even if some are demo-less and early.

Pick Nextcloud Hub if you need a production-ready, integrated office, chat and video suite today, with enterprise support and a vendor used by governments at scale.

Price and licensing
The Everything Project: free, MIT, no paid tier
Nextcloud Hub: free self-host; from €71/user/yr

Setup and hosting
The Everything Project: clone + npm per app
Nextcloud Hub: one Docker command

Breadth vs maturity
The Everything Project: most categories, many demo-less
Nextcloud Hub: fewer apps, production-proven

Who's behind it
The Everything Project: Canadian startup, ~7 staff
Nextcloud Hub: German firm, since 2016

Side by side, in full

Price and licensing
The Everything Project: Every Everything app is released free under the MIT license with no subscription, hosted paywall, or enterprise tier offered by HeyPuter.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud's self-hosted Community edition is free with full features, but its Enterprise support subscriptions start at €71.29 per user per year and require a minimum of 100 users.

Setup and hosting
The Everything Project: Each app lives in its own folder; running one locally means Node.js 22.12+, then git clone, npm install and npm run dev per app, with no shared backend linking them together.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud All-in-One starts the whole office-plus-chat server with a single docker run command, though Talk's video calls recommend adding a TURN server for reliable connections.

Breadth vs maturity
The Everything Project: The README lists nine categories reaching into Photoshop, AutoCAD, SolidWorks and music-production alternatives that Nextcloud has nothing like, but Photo Studio, Video Studio, Vector Studio and 3D Studio all still show source code only with no live demo.
Nextcloud Hub has no creative or CAD apps, but its office, chat and file-sync core is a decade old and runs on over 400,000 servers, including rollouts to hundreds of thousands of French and German government staff.

Who's behind it
The Everything project comes from Puter Technologies, a Canada-based startup founded in 2022 with roughly seven employees and one undisclosed pre-seed round from Accel Starters, Shilling Capital and others.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud GmbH is a German company headquartered in Stuttgart, founded in 2016 by Frank Karlitschek (who earlier founded ownCloud), and now markets itself as the sovereign European alternative to Microsoft 365.

The Everything Project: https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything
Nextcloud Hub: https://nextcloud.com

A remote control for your coding agents

You start a coding agent, then end up babysitting it. T3 Code puts a remote control for it on your phone.

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No AI inside: it drives the coding agents already on your machine, it doesn't think for itself

Six agents, your subscriptions: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Google Antigravity

Phone, web, or desktop: kick off a task at your desk, then steer it from anywhere

Early days: expect bugs, and an agent needs to already be installed and logged in

One control surface for agents you already run

T3 Code runs no model of its own. It's a harness that connects to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, or Google Antigravity on your computer, and lets you drive whichever is set up from an iOS or Android app, a web app, or an Electron desktop app.

The tool itself is free and open source. The intelligence isn't: each agent still runs on your own subscription or API key for Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, xAI, or Google, whatever you already use.

Requires at least one agent already installed and authenticated before you open T3 Code: for example Claude Code with claude auth login, Codex CLI with codex login, or OpenCode with opencode auth login. Antigravity just needs enabling in Settings and a Google sign-in, no CLI. The project doesn't list OS, chip, or memory requirements beyond that.

The catch: the authors call the project "very very early" and say to expect bugs. It also isn't accepting outside contributions yet beyond small fixes.

Try it with curl -fsSL https://t3.codes/install.sh | sh (PowerShell on Windows: irm https://t3.codes/install.ps1 | iex), then run t3. To test it without installing, run npx t3@latest. Desktop builds are also on GitHub Releases, winget, scoop, Homebrew, and the AUR.

Use it instead of leaving a terminal tab open all day when you want to check on a task from your phone. Don't use it if none of those six agents are set up yet, since T3 Code has nothing of its own to run.

https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code

⚡ AI News
Mistral releases open weights for 1T-parameter Large 4: Mistral ships full weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, tuned for cybersecurity, coding and finance.

Deepgram acquires Daily, maker of Pipecat voice framework: Deepgram buys Daily, the startup behind the open-source Pipecat voice AI framework, with deal terms undisclosed.

Wabi hits $1.25B valuation building mini-app AI agent: Wabi, the mini-app-building AI agent from Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation.

Macro: the PDF editor that open-sourced its whole work OS

You're paying for Slack, Notion, Linear and Salesforce, all at once.
Macro wants to replace all of them, in one open-source app.

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27+ apps, one app: Slack, Notion, Linear and a CRM bundled into Macro

From PDF editor to work OS: started in 2020, now email, chat, tasks, calls, CRM

Shared team memory: one AI agent acts across every module

$30M+ from a16z, then open-sourced: the whole app, AGPLv3, not open core

$200/month plan, free to self-host: model costs aside

What self-hosting means

Macro started in 2020 as an AI editor for PDFs and DOCX files that flagged key terms, cross-references and errors. In 2026 it pivoted into a full work platform: email, chat, docs, tasks, calls and a CRM, tied together by "shared team memory" so one AI agent can act across every module.

The company raised a $9.3M seed in 2023 and a $12M Series A in 2024, both led by Andreessen Horowitz, $30M+ total (TechCrunch, Law.com). It then released the whole platform under the AGPLv3 license, which the project's own GitHub page calls "not open core": the same code the $200/seat/month Max plan runs on, not a stripped-down free tier.

The GitHub repo has reached 5.6k stars and 533 forks. The frontend is SolidJS (web, Tauri desktop, mobile); the backend is Rust, split into 42 separate deployable services, and that split is the catch: this is not a one-container app to self-host.

Requires: the project doesn't list hardware requirements beyond a server able to run those 42 Rust services, plus either a local model or a paid API key, since self-hosting the app does not make the AI itself free. For comparison, Macro's own cloud tiers: Free (Gemini Flash only, 5GB storage, 2 email accounts), Pro at $40/seat/month, Max at $200/seat/month.

Use it instead of a Slack plus Notion plus Linear plus CRM stack when you want one app and your own data under your own roof. Don't use it yet if you need a proven, simple hosting setup: forty-two services is a lot to run solo, and the AI itself is never free, only the app is.

Clone the repo and follow its setup docs to self-host:
git clone https://github.com/macro-inc/macro

github.com/macro-inc/macro

AI Made Developers 19% Slower, But They Felt 20% Faster
A walk through the trial, the rerun, the vendor benchmark and the paper behind the 19% argument.
Our Short on this: Macro: the PDF-editor startup that open-sourced an entire work OS

Watch the video on YouTube
Read the article

⚡ AI News
Fake Claude Code extension plants SSH backdoor: A rogue Claude Code build on Cursor's marketplace hit up to 5,000 developers with a persistent SSH backdoor for 11 hours.

Claude discovers critical exploit chains in Chrome, Linux: Anthropic says Claude found chained zero-day exploits in Chrome (62 CVEs), Safari, Android, Windows and Linux.

Experts defer to their AI agent 86% of the time, study finds: Anthropic found analysts picked their coding agent's secretly preferred option 86% of the time, often unaware of its sway.

An astrology engine that writes 8.7 million readings without AI

An open-source chart engine for Ziwei Doushu, a traditional Chinese astrology system.
It also ships the readings themselves, by the millions, generated with no model in the loop.

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Open chart engine: full plotting algorithm, transformation system, ancient source texts, all public

8.7M readings, zero AI: 674,976 full charts x 13 dimensions, generated deterministically

161 MB unpacks to 56.6 GB: the entire interpretation dataset, compressed with zstd

MIT code, CC BY 4.0 data: free to reuse, even commercially, just credit the source

One thing stays closed: the judgment library that writes new readings isn't open sourced

8.7 million readings, no AI involved

The v4.0 dataset (released 2026-10-15) covers 674,976 full charts: every real calendar date from 1950 to 2026, times 12 traditional hour-slots, times gender. Each chart carries 13 interpretation dimensions (career, wealth, health, relationships and more), for 8,774,688 passages total, about 20.4 billion characters of text.

Compressed with zstd it's 161 MB, split into 77 yearly files plus one full tarball; unpacked it's 56.6 GB. These are the project's own published numbers, not an independent benchmark.

Generation is deterministic: the chart engine plus a judgment library produce the same output for the same input, no model call involved anywhere.

Requires: a TypeScript/Node toolchain to run the engine itself, and the zstd CLI (with the --long=27 flag) to unpack the dataset. No GPU, no API key: nothing here touches AI.

The catch: the judgment library that actually writes the interpretation text stays closed source. What's open is the chart-plotting engine and the resulting dataset, not the generator that turned one into the other.

Code is MIT. The dataset is CC BY 4.0: free to reuse, even commercially, as long as you credit the source; quoted lecture excerpts embedded in the text keep a separate non-commercial license.

To try it: git clone https://github.com/Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu, then npm test runs the engine's regression suite. Grab the dataset itself from the repo's Releases page, tag v4.0-13d.

Use it instead of calling an LLM when you want free, reproducible astrology text at scale. Don't use it if you need the actual reasoning that generates new readings: that part isn't public.

github.com/Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu

Taste Skill patches an XSS hole, the keyboard and the italics

One release, three bugs the community found: a markup injection through your own data, a page you couldn't drive from a keyboard, and fonts rendering fake italics.

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Escaped labels: chart labels and headings built from your data no longer inject markup

Keyboard and screen readers: every control now works from the keyboard and carries an accessible name

Italics fixed: Boska, Erode and Sentient now load their italic weight correctly

The catch: Node 22 and a real browser, still required

Built from reports: every fix in this release came from a bug the community filed

What actually shipped

Taste Skill is an Agent Skill, not a standalone app. It installs into a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, or anything using the npx skills CLI) and gives that agent an art direction, real reference photos and a browser check, instead of letting it draw a generic landing page.

This release is a security and accessibility patch, not a feature drop. Chart labels and headings pulled from your own data are now escaped before they reach the page, closing a markup injection path. Every interactive control gained keyboard operation and an accessible name. The italic weights for Boska, Erode and Sentient now load instead of falling back to a fake slant. The project's own changelog credits all three fixes to bugs the community reported; no benchmark numbers are attached to this patch.

The skill itself is free and needs no API key. The cost you still pay is whatever your coding agent charges to run it, a subscription or its own API key, since the skill only rides along inside that agent.

Requires: Node 22 or newer, an installed Chrome, Edge or Chromium, and a coding agent to host the skill. Network access is needed only so the skill can fetch reference photos from open archives.

The catch, as the video says: it still needs that Node version and a real browser present on the machine. A full page build takes roughly 30 to 45 minutes and a few hundred thousand tokens, by the project's own account.

Install with:
npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill "design-taste-frontend"

Use it instead of asking your agent to "make it look nicer" when you want an actual art direction and a browser-verified result. Don't use it if your agent can't run Node scripts or open a real browser.

https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill

⚡ AI News
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings buys ADT for $15B: Thrive Holdings, OpenAI's AI rollup partner, acquired security firm ADT for $15.3 billion in enterprise value.

Google's Suncatcher satellite computes in orbit: Google's Suncatcher satellite ran its onboard Gemma model in space for the first time, generating poetry from orbiting TPUs.

AWS targets $1 trillion revenue, Jassy says: Amazon's Andy Jassy said AWS could hit $1 trillion revenue in 5 to 10 years, backed by $220 billion in 2026 capex.

US probed China spy claims against Nvidia's Huang: US intelligence surveilled a Megaspeed executive for a year over fears she was spying on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

DoorDash: AI agents brought just hundreds of orders: DoorDash said third-party AI agents like Muse and Instinct drove only several hundred orders, versus 3 million daily deliveries.

Claude Code just hired a 49-agent game studio

One Claude Code project, loaded with directors, department leads and specialists whose whole job is making a game.

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A studio, not a chat: 49 agents arranged as directors, leads and specialists

Heavy on paperwork: 74 slash commands and 62 document templates (GDDs, UX specs, ADRs)

Guardrails built in: 15 validation hooks and 14 path-scoped coding rules check the code

Not a new idea: BMAD-METHOD already ships a game-dev studio module for any AI tool

The twist: the author's own blind test ranked a game built this way last

What's inside

It's a free, MIT-licensed template layer by one developer (GitHub user Donchitos) that you drop into an existing Claude Code project. It doesn't write a game on its own: it loads a hierarchy of agents and workflows on top of Claude's existing coding ability, targeting Godot 4, Unity or Unreal Engine 5.

The current README lists 49 agents, 74 slash-command skills, 15 validation hooks, 14 coding rules and 62 document templates. The first release, v0.1.0 from February 2026, shipped roughly half of that (48 agents, 35 skills, 8 hooks, 11 rules, 28 templates), per the project's own release notes, so the skill and template count has doubled in about eight months.

30,403 stars and 4,166 forks as of October 30, 2026, per GitHub's API.

The tool itself is free (MIT license, tips only). It still runs on top of whatever Claude Code access you already have, so you keep paying for that: an API key or a Claude subscription.

Requires: an existing Claude Code setup, and a project targeting Godot 4, Unity or Unreal Engine 5. No extra hardware is listed in the README.

The catch, by the author's own admission: in a blind test, a game built with the full agent and documentation process was ranked last against builds made without it. More agents and templates meant more paperwork, not a better game.

Use it instead of plain Claude Code when you want forced structure and review gates on a game project. Don't use it if you just want working code fast: BMAD-METHOD has a similar game-dev module and isn't locked to Claude Code alone.

Try it:

git clone https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios.git
cd Claude-Code-Game-Studios

then follow the README's setup to load it into your Claude Code project.

github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

⚡ AI News
Anthropic expected to get junk credit rating: Blackstone now expects Anthropic to receive a high junk credit rating after its IPO filing, reversing its earlier investment-grade forecast.

Nvidia may cosign Nscale's $45B data center: Nvidia is in talks to guarantee loans for Nscale's West Virginia AI campus, which hosts Anthropic's $44.6B compute deal.

Cracks appear in Big Tech's $740B AI spending: Alphabet, Amazon and Meta posted negative free cash flow even as $740B in AI capex triggered a tech stock selloff.