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A detailed look at Anthropic's revenue reporting, contrasting the CFO affidavit claiming revenue 'exceeding $5 billion' with year-to-date annualized revenue figures that imply much higher totals. The piece reconstructs a run of ARR numbers to argue that headlines and investor narratives relied on dubious representations, and discusses possible explanations (earned vs signed contracts) and the implications for trust in AI startup reporting.
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Trigger.dev introduces TRQL, a DSL that compiles to secure, tenant-isolated ClickHouse queries for multi-tenant analytics. The article explains why a DSL is necessary for security boundaries, how tenant isolation is enforced at compile time, and how internal table details are hidden from users. It also covers the compilation pipeline, schema design, virtual columns, time bucketing, and the editor experience, illustrating how automation and governance are embedded in analytics workflows.
Hookdeck details a real-world optimization that sped up payload search in ClickHouse from tens of seconds to about 400ms on average, with p99 under 1.4 seconds. The team tackled se…
Ars Technica reports that Aspen will deploy Seneca’s drone strike team to perform early firefighting with foam suppressant, aided by panoramic AI cameras for rapid fire detection. …
FFmpeg 8.1 'Hoare' is released with major enhancements including experimental xHE-AAC decoding, EXIF parsing, LCEVC metadata handling, and Vulkan compute-based codecs for ProRes an…
Wasmer announces Edge.js, an open-source JavaScript runtime designed to safely run Node.js workloads inside a WebAssembly sandbox. It preserves full Node compatibility while isolat…