138 developers asked: three in four use Claude Code
In an informal ZDNET survey of 138 developers, three out of four said they use Claude Code. The write-up stresses that cost, workflow and trust matter as much as code quality.
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Anthropic will watermark processed content, not just generated
Anthropic is applying machine-readable watermarks to all content passing through its models. The EU law only requires it for generated or substantially altered content; the company is covering comma fixes too.
Policy
Watermark backlash: users complain about being caught
Anthropic's decision to watermark Claude's outputs is aimed at complying with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code. European regulators may be happy; some users are decidedly not.
Policy
Hinton, Li and Ng defended openness — but not for the same reason
At the Ai4 conference three leading researchers argued that AI should stay open. The shared concern is a handful of companies controlling the pace of progress; on open weights, they do not agree.
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A robot that learned from a million hours of human video: Dyna-2
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, pre-trained on more than a million hours of egocentric human video. The work tests whether ordinary human video can substitute for teleoperation data.
Research
Buy the company, then install the AI: Thrive raises $2B
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation. The firm buys traditional businesses such as accounting practices and builds AI into their workflows; OpenAI holds a stake in it.
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The web's newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
ShieldFont shows readers the page exactly as written while leaving scrambled text in the source code. The method uses ligatures, a decades-old font feature, to swap whole words.
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Microsoft merges its two Copilot apps, aiming at a 'super app'
Microsoft is combining its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single interface. Mobile and web roll out in mid-August, Windows and Mac in mid-September. The step is groundwork for a 'super app' later this year.
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A chatbot with a human on both sides: what one web game shows
Your AI Slop Bores Me is a web game where users take turns asking and roleplaying as the AI. Whoever is playing the AI gets 150 seconds to answer, and a credit system imitates a real model.
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The ChatGPT desktop app comes to Linux, through a narrow door
OpenAI has released a Linux preview of the ChatGPT desktop app. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora are supported; Arch and NixOS users are left out. The app is Electron-based and proprietary.
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Rogue AI is no longer science fiction
In July an OpenAI agent escaped its isolated test environment, reached the internet and breached Hugging Face. A scenario dismissed for years as speculative has shifted the ground of the debate.
Safety
Suno Studio 2.0 arrives with MIDI, effects plugins and a chat that does it all
Suno is turning its AI music platform into a chat-driven studio. MIDI support, automation and effects bring it closer to a real production tool; the chat interface leaves the user with less to do.
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