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Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork: The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes." Read More

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands: Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold. Read More

SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime: To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions for late-stage private companies. Read More

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