9 July 2026

Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 in 11 days; the task would've taken three engineers about a year (Jarred Sumner/bun.com)

Jarred Sumner / bun.com:
Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 in 11 days; the task would've taken three engineers about a year  —  Disclosure: Bun was acquired by Anthropic in December 2025.  I and others on the Bun team work at Anthropic.

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Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows  —  Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of company in the attention economy space — be they dedicated microdrama apps …

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Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios:
Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses  —  Facebook's parent company on Thursday updated its Muse Spark large language model and followed through on a promise to make it available to developers.

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European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B  —  In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows.

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Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be “aggressive and attractive” at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models  —  In a crowded market for AI tools, Mark Zuckerberg wants to win on price.  —  Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a version …

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