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Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, has filed to go public at a valuation of two trillion dollars — despite losing forty-two billion dollars last year. Revenue grew twelvefold, and the company is planning to spend five hundred eighteen billion going forward. Notably, its own IPO prospectus warns that its AI could pose existential risks to humanity.
That tension between ambition and risk is playing out differently at OpenAI, which is quietly building what looks like an alternative to the traditional app store. ChatGPT is being repositioned as a place where both people and AI agents can discover and run software directly, cutting platform gatekeepers like Apple and Google out of the equation entirely.
And speaking of Apple, the company pushed an update to Final Cut Camera that brings support for the variable aperture system on the upcoming iPhone eighteen Pro. It's a small but telling move — Apple threading its professional video tools tightly into new hardware before the device even ships, deepening the creative ecosystem lock-in it's been building for years.
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