💵 Cash for Cambium: Cambium built a software platform that helps connect players in the lumber industry to repurpose otherwise wasted wood. The startup just raised an $18.5 million round led by VoLo Earth Ventures. Read more
🤳 Instagram 2.0: Yope is a new Instagram competitor that lets people post pictures in the app to groups they have joined or created themselves. Despite there being quite a few new photo-sharing startups, Yope garnered a $50 million valuation on its recent seed round. Read more
🙇 Selective thinking: Anthropic released a new model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which is designed to "think" about questions as long as the user wants and is somehow meant to simplify the user experience around AI products. Anthropic is calling it the industry's first "hybrid AI reasoning model." Read more
❤️ Gotta catch 'em all: When Anthropic was building Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the company tapped Pokémon Red as a benchmark and had the AI model play the game continuously. Can I say I'm playing that for work, too? Read more
🔓 Wide open: Security researchers have found a security bug, kind of, in Hirsch's Enterprise MESH door access system. Landlords are installing the system without changing the default password. The company is rightly saying it isn't its fault that landlords aren't changing the password. Read more
