Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops $65bn, a source says, but a run rate is not revenue

Anthropic has told investors that its annualised revenue run rate topped $65bn by the end of July, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances who was cited by Reuters. The distinctio [...]

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distrib [...]

Situational Awareness ran two auctions at once, and one set of bidders never knew

Situational Awareness lost roughly $30bn in July. The desk reported that three weeks ago. What happened inside those six days has not. Gregory Zuckerman, Juliet Chung and Peter Rudegeair have reconstr [...]

The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firs [...]

YouTube view counts will rise on 24 August, and creator earnings will not

From 24 August, YouTube counts a view the moment a video starts playing. No minimum watch time, across long-form, Shorts and live, everywhere. The YouTube view count will go up. Nobody will watch more [...]

Alina Kukarina on why AI transformation begins before choosing the technology

AI investment has expanded rapidly, with organizations introducing copilots, agents, and generative AI across functions. Yet the business transformation many leaders anticipated can remain difficult [...]

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens and will auto-enrol under-18s

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday. It is a separate version of the chatbot, and under-18s land in it automatically. Anyone who says they are 13 to 17 gets it by default. So does anyone the [...]

Google plans to end Pixel production in China by 2027

Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel production out of China from 2027, according to Nikkei Asia. That covers phones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds. Lauly Li reported the plan on 1 [...]

Apple leaked a video of its camera-equipped AirPods in macOS Tahoe

Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earb [...]