Jeff Dean: comfortable with engineers spending up to $10M/yr on AI tools

Creator isolated vocals from Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" with Demucs, then used Seed-VC to re-voice them before feeding audio plus an animal photo into minimaxh3 via Atlas Cloud for the singing video.

A r/ClaudeAI thread solicits anecdotes of Fable solving problems, building things, or producing better-looking and better-functioning output than prior models like Opus. No concrete examples or benchmarks are included in the post itself.

General Catalyst is reportedly leading the round of at least $1.5 billion for the autonomous-vehicle and defense technology contractor. The deal would value Applied Intuition at roughly $30 billion.

Inc. reports that AI agents are starting to purchase software on behalf of users, a shift startup founders say companies are unprepared for. The piece covers how bots buying software changes sales and procurement.

AWS blog post describes agents built on AWS Quick that speed up the product development lifecycle, with human approval steps baked into the workflow. The post argues AI-driven software delivery is outpacing upstream product processes.