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Meta Hired a Fintech Founder to Run WhatsApp. The Choice Is the Strategy.

Meta is investing $900 million in CRED and making its founder Kunal Shah the global head of WhatsApp, replacing a seven-year messaging veteran. Who Meta picked tells you more about where the world's largest messaging app is heading than any roadmap would.

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Claude Fable 5: It's a Beast. "It's a Ferrari With a 30mph Limiter." Both Are True.

Claude Fable 5 landed yesterday. Two days of dev-Twitter, Hacker News, and the Anthropic subreddit later, here is what the people actually using it are saying, and where the love and the rage are coming from. Simon Willison, in the top-rated Hacker News comment of the launch thread: "I&