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Circle had such a successful IPO, I’m wondering if IPO’s might finally be back on the menu. Turns out Anthropic cut off Windsurf for the most obvious reason. Maybe Manus really is stoking a new gold rush, at least in China. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, the most consequential weather forecast of all time.
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Links:
Stablecoin issuer Circle soars 168% in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above expected range (CNBC)
Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: ‘It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI’ (TechCrunch)
Anysphere, Hailed as Fastest Growing Startup Ever, Raises $900 Million (Bloomberg)
Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China (MIT Technology Review)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video (The Verge)
The Man Whose Weather Forecast Saved the World (NYTimes)
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