Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai:
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord  —  Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.

Regarding my earlier post expressing confusion/discomfort with Bluesky announcing a $100 million funding round almost an entire year after it closed, I had an interesting back-and-forth with Adam Vartanian on Bluesky (natch), where he wrote:

If you see press reports that says a company “has raised” some money but no date on when the round closed, it probably happened some time in the past. Bluesky is actually unusual in disclosing a date that’s so far in the past.

I kept thinking that I must be missing something in this story, and this feels like it must be exactly that something. If true, it’s not unusual these days for a company to announce a seeding round long after it actually closed. What’s unusual in this case with Bluesky is that when they finally did announce it, they revealed the long-ago date it closed, too. That it was, in fact, an act of transparency, at least in comparison to many other venture-backed companies today.

The Trump administration’s rhetoric on the war in Iran tends to be heavy on words like “lethality” and “obliteration,” so it was notable that the president seemed almost apologetic on Wednesday, when discussing an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, which prompted Iranian retaliation against natural gas facilities in Qatar and sent global […]

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Anniek Bao / CNBC:
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers  —  The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries.  Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.