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Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H round, pushing its valuation to nearly $1 trillion and overtaking OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March. Annual revenue has surged to $47 billion from $10 billion last year, driven by strong demand for Claude AI and Claude Code. Both companies are now eyeing IPOs, intensifying competition at the very top of the AI market.
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, warning that AI poses existential risks to human agency, democracy, and equality, and calling for it to be "disarmed" — removed from military systems and placed under strict international regulation. The document frames AI as a new industrial revolution and draws a direct parallel to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical that confronted the social consequences of industrialization. Leo took direct aim at Big Tech, framing unchecked AI companies as a structural threat to human society.
IXI is developing smart glasses with liquid crystal lenses that auto-adjust focus using infrared eye tracking, targeting age-related farsightedness. Unlike progressive lenses with their blurry transition zones, these switch prescription instantly as your gaze shifts, and they default to a fixed prescription if the battery depletes. The company plans to launch in 2026 through opticians as a high-end product.
The White House OMB has proposed a 412-page rule that would allow federal agencies to cancel research grants at their discretion, even post-award, whenever they no longer align with presidential policy priorities. The rule also requires senior political appointees to pre-approve all discretionary grants before they go out the door. With a comment period closing mid-July and rules binding on all agencies by October 1, the science community is raising alarms about research funding becoming a political instrument.
Helios is a new web tool that estimates how much electricity plug-in solar panels could generate at a specific UK address, using government LIDAR data to model the surrounding skyline including buildings and hills that would cast shade. It pairs that analysis with PVGIS solar yield calculations and maps the result against your energy tariff for a real financial picture. The timing is sharp: plug-in solar just became legal in the UK and will be on sale soon.
The Zig team has restructured the build system by splitting it into two separate processes: a configurer that runs build.zig in debug mode and serializes the result to a cache file, and a maker that executes the build graph in optimized release mode using that cached config. This eliminates redundant recompilation and allows the maker to be compiled once per Zig version and reused. The result is a 10x speedup — zig build --help now completes in roughly 14ms instead of 150ms.
Openrsync is a BSD-licensed, clean-room reimplementation of the rsync file synchronization tool, developed by the OpenBSD project and already merged into OpenBSD's base system. What sets it apart is a significantly stronger security posture — it uses OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2) primitives to tightly restrict what the process can access at runtime. This GitHub repository maintains a portable version for other Unix-like operating systems.
Pandoc Templates is a community hub for collecting and sharing reusable templates for Pandoc, the universal document conversion tool that transforms Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, and dozens of other formats into nearly anything. The site gives developers and technical writers a central place to discover and share custom output templates, cutting the time needed to produce polished documents. For anyone who writes docs in plain text, it's a useful bookmark.
This tutorial implements a full grid-based fluid simulation inside the Godot game engine using the Navier-Stokes equations, building up from scratch through diffusion, advection, and pressure projection. The author prioritizes clarity over performance — every step is heavily commented so readers follow the math, not just copy the code. It's a clean on-ramp to computational fluid dynamics for developers who think in game engines.
VoxelSpace is a web-based recreation of the terrain rendering engine from Comanche, the 1992 helicopter game by NovaLogic, demonstrating how just under 20 lines of code can produce convincing 3D-looking landscapes using height maps and a 2.5D ray-casting algorithm. The project includes a live flyable demo, a detailed algorithm walkthrough, and downloadable terrain maps to experiment with. No GPU required — it's a pure CPU technique from the pre-graphics-card era.