Anthropic Prepares Mega-IPO — Bloomberg Anthropic is set to file for its IPO as soon as the end of August, targeting a valuation that could match or surpass SpaceX’s record debut. The company is finalizing a revolving credit facility targeting over $10 billion, and is considering super-voting shares that would preserve co-founder control post-listing. If it proceeds, it would be the largest AI-lab IPO to date and a defining moment for the industry’s capital markets.

🚗 Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics

Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows — The Next Web All 170 rides logged by crowdsourced project Robotaxi Tracker over the past fortnight show no human safety monitor on board, marking a quiet milestone for Tesla’s commercial AV rollout. Roughly 30 additional driverless Teslas have also been spotted operating in Dallas and Houston, suggesting a broader stealth expansion beyond Austin.

Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla — The Register Waymo unveiled its first piece of custom silicon, built on TSMC’s 5 nm process, designed to minimize latency between raw sensor data and driving decisions. The chip is a direct competitive move as Tesla scales its FSD-driven robotaxi fleet.

Tesla says FSD v15 is a ‘step-change,’ Optimus sells in 2027 — Electrek

China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you — The Next Web

🛠️ Developer Tools & Open Source

Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together — The Next Web Slack Code adds project-specific channels where human developers and AI coding agents collaborate, review, and ship code without leaving the chat interface. Users tag a coding agent from any conversation; it spins up a dedicated code channel that auto-archives when the task ends. Slack Code is available across all Slack plans immediately.

Bun 1.4 — Bun Bun 1.4 is a substantial release: over 1,500 additional Node.js test cases pass, idle CPU usage drops up to 5×, memory use falls up to 48%, and Linux startup roughly doubles in speed. New built-ins include image processing, WebView embedding, Markdown parsing, cron job scheduling, and parallel test execution, all as the project continues migrating its codebase from Zig to Rust.

Announcing Rust 1.98.0 — Rust Blog — Adds algebraic floating-point operations enabling broader vectorization, plus faster buffered integer formatting via format_into rivaling the itoa crate.

CNCF Announces Kubeflow Graduation — DevOps Digest — Nearly 260 million PyPI downloads confirm Kubeflow’s maturity as the standard for AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes.

Claude Code 2.1.238 — Anthropic — Adds a keybindingFlavor setting (with readline mode for Bash-style Ctrl+W), plus headersHelper support for authenticated plugin catalog fetches.

🔒 Security & Infrastructure

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers — Cloudflare Blog Cloudflare researchers demonstrated a remote Spectre attack against its Workers production environment leaking up to 12 bits per second at 99% accuracy. The attack bypassed Cloudflare’s Dynamic Process Isolation by keeping a single Durable Object invocation alive for hours via WebSocket messages — a gap that has since been closed. No active exploitation was detected.

AI-Infra-Guard (GitHub Repo) — Tencent Zhuque Lab — Open-sourced red teaming platform for scanning AI infrastructure, MCP servers, agent skills, and testing LLMs for jailbreak vulnerabilities.

Detect vulnerabilities in LLM applications with Datadog’s AI-native SAST — Datadog — New static analysis tooling covers the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await — The Register — AI is simultaneously uncovering legacy bugs and generating new flawed code, keeping patch volumes structurally elevated.

🤖 AI Products & Market

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates — TechCrunch New data shows enterprise AI buyers switching between OpenAI and Anthropic as each lab ships new models, with OpenAI currently recapturing market share. The churn highlights how weakly “sticky” enterprise AI spending is today, a concern for investors as both companies approach potential public markets.

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in — TechCrunch — New Apple Messages integration lets ChatGPT draft and send texts on a user’s behalf.

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed — The Verge — Google will let users describe their Discover preferences in natural language; the feature rolls out in the Google app within days.

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses — TechCrunch — A new “follow this publisher” button lets readers make a site their preferred source across Search, Discover, and News.

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money — The Verge

🌐 Policy & Business

The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital? — TechCrunch — The DOJ is reportedly applying a 112-year-old antitrust statute to a16z’s dual board seats at competing data companies Databricks and Fivetran.

The Brains Who Powered China’s Surprising AI Leap — WSJ — Profiles of Z.AI founder Tang Jie and Moonshot AI’s Yang Zhilin illustrate that China’s AI surge is the product of decades of sustained investment, not a sudden leap.

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up — TechCrunch

Apple reportedly lays off 60 Vision employees amid shifting priorities — 9to5Mac — Resources are reportedly moving toward AI-powered smart glasses.

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