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05- 01Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data with upgraded interactive connectors
The new features allow teams to build spreadsheets, whiteboards, and dashboards directly in Claude, with interactive connectors enabling work inside apps like Adobe and Atlassian without switching tabs.
Claude Blog
- 02Anthropic launches IPO roadshow for 825 million shares at $70-$78 per share
The offering includes 801,351,354 shares from Anthropic and 23,648,646 from existing stockholders, with a 30-day underwriter option for 123,750,000 additional shares.
Anthropic News
- 03Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon for developers with focus on cybersecurity and agentic workflows
The model targets sustained agentic workflows and complex multi-step problems in software engineering and scientific research.
Google AI Blog
- 04OpenAI and Upwork research finds AI-related freelance projects have 45% more diverse task mixes and larger budgets
Analysis of 63 work categories reveals that while some AI-automated tasks lost freelance share, AI-related projects now combine skills in new ways and command larger fixed-price budgets.
OpenAI Blog
- 05modern-web-guidance boosts coding agent pass rates by up to 36pp with modern web primitives
A joint project by Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and MDN embeds curated web standards into AI agents, raising pass rates from 52-60% to 82-96% in evaluations.
Hacker News
Developer tool releases
01Rising repositories and models
03- we-promise/sure
Personal finance app with $1 million in development costs is now open source
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image
Open-source DiT that generates and edits 16MP images in 6 steps
- tokio-rs/topcoat
Full-stack web apps in Rust, without an API layer