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Sources: Manus is set to soon close a $500M funding round at a $4B valuation, signaling growing confidence after Beijing unwound its $2B buyout by Meta (Bloomberg)

Chinese-founded AI startup Manus is set to double its valuation to $4 billion in its first fundraising since Beijing ordered it to split …

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The Prompt Changed and There Is No Commit for It

The answers got worse on Tuesday. Nothing shipped on Monday. The code is identical to the code that worked last week. The branch has not moved.

  • Prompt altered on Friday without commit
  • Deleted clause caused pricing restrictions
  • Model identifier must be pinned and documented

I built guardrails for Claude Code after it told me a fix "worked" when it didn't

Just shipped this after getting burned one too many times: Claude Code Guardrails Pack — free hooks and skills that stop an AI coding agent from claiming work is done when it never actually checked.

  • Guardrails prevent Claude Code from falsely claiming code is fixed without verification.
  • Includes unlazy skill, session state snapshot, and safegitguard.py script.
  • Pre-commit-secret-scan.sh hook blocks commits with sensitive API keys.

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