Venture Dispatch

Future of Work

  1. Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
  2. YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.
  3. Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules
  4. Securing Shadow IT in the corporate environment
  5. This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks
  6. Sony will stop making physical PlayStation game discs in January 2028
  7. Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
  8. Microsoft plans to cut under 2.5% of its workforce in a fresh round of layoffs
  9. Final Fantasy VII Revelation was built in three years because 95% of the team stayed
  10. AI amplifies whatever you feed it, including confusion
  11. Sony and Honda cancel the electric vehicle AFEELA dream
  12. Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think
  13. RWS launches Language Weaver Pro
  14. Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows
  15. Adzuna buys the jobs verticals of Trovit and Mitula
  16. The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play
  17. Uber relaunches Motional robotaxis in Las Vegas