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Reuters reports Paris prosecutors and French regulators stepped up scrutiny on September 18 after cases of non-consensual recording. This is the first criminal, rather than data-protection, track against the current generation of AI wearables in the EU, and it arrives the day after Snap detailed a $2,195 untethered Specs with a built-in assistant.
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Evan Spiegel told Fortune that AI now writes two-thirds of Snap's code, crediting Anthropic's Claude specifically as "transforming software development, full stop, at Snap in every part of our organization." He predicted companies will reallocate resources from engineering to...
Sixty-five percent. That's the number Evan Spiegel dropped when announcing Snap is laying off roughly 1,000 employees, 16% of its workforce. AI now generates more than 65% of Snap's new code. TechCrunch has the details: $500M+ stripped from the annualized cost base, stock up 7...
VoltAgent's awesome-design-md repository packages 57 complete brand design systems as structured markdown files. Apple, Notion, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber. Drop one in your Claude Code workspace and the agent generates pixel-accurate UI matching that brand's visual language. Source:...
The merge started this week as the structural precondition, bringing chat, AI coding, the Cowork research tool and new AutoPilot background agents acting across Outlook, Teams and OneDrive into one product. The rollout also retired free Deep Research within four days, which re...
OpenTrailPaper is ESP-IDF firmware in C for the LilyGO T5 E-Paper S3 Pro, plus SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose companion apps, handling GPX routes, FIT recording and Bluetooth heart rate, power and cadence sensors. The author states everything was developed with Claude as an assis...
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit to overturn its Pentagon "supply chain risk" designation, which bars Claude from all Department of Defense work. The designation came after Anthropic demanded restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons applications. In a rare sho...
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