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1. 3d
   Developer builds 7 free open-source Adobe alternatives with Claude Opus 5.5

   Software engineer Brandon Thomas has launched ArtCraft, an open-source project that uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and the Rust language to recreate seven Adobe Creative Cloud apps: PhotoCraft (Photoshop), LightCraft (Lightroom), VectorCraft (Illustrator), FilmCraft (Premiere Pro), EffectCraft (After Effects), DesignCraft (InDesign) and PdfCraft (Acrobat), with interfaces and workflows deliberately kept close to Adobe's. TMTPost reports the project has drawn more than 30,000 developer followers and over 100,000 likes on GitHub, and the team lead claims community feedback could bring it to roughly 99% feature parity with Adobe's software within months — a claim that remains unverified. The local editing tools are free and open source, while ArtCraft's cloud AI generation services run on credits and paid plans; reviewers at TechRadar and Creative Bloq found gaps in PhotoCraft's file-format support and saving, LightCraft's color management and masking, and FilmCraft's audio and editing. Thomas describes the code as clean-room implementations, though the similar interfaces and interaction patterns could raise intellectual-property questions.

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2. 5d
   Google pilots coding interviews that let candidates use Gemini

   Google is piloting a software engineer interview change in which candidates in a new “Code Comprehension” section can use Gemini to read, debug and optimize existing code, while interviewers assess “AI fluency” — how candidates prompt, verify AI output and debug, according to a report republished by 36Kr from Machine Heart. A Google spokesperson confirmed Gemini is the tool offered to candidates, and VP of recruiting Brian Ong said the change aims to better reflect how engineers work in the AI era; the pilot covers junior and mid-level US roles in the second half of this year, with Google Cloud and Platforms & Devices among participating organizations, and expansion depending on results. The article also cites Google CEO Sundar Pichai saying 75% of new code at Google is AI-generated and reviewed by engineers, Andrej Karpathy saying roughly 80% of his coding is now done by agents while his hand-writing ability has declined, and similar AI-in-interview moves by Canva and Meta, plus Codility allowing interviewers to inject hidden instructions into candidates’ AI coding tools.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0
3. 6d
   Meitu's AI turnaround meets cost and competition pressure

   An analysis republished by TMTPost from Juchao WAVE says Meitu's shares have fallen from above HK$9 in early 2026 to around HK$4, more than 50% below their peak and down over 40% year to date, as market sentiment toward its AI applications turned cautious. Citing the company's interim results, it reports H1 2026 revenue from continuing operations of RMB 2.213 billion, up 22.1% year on year, and adjusted net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 652 million, up 39.5%; imaging and design revenue reached RMB 1.769 billion, nearly 80% of total revenue, with more than 18.44 million paid subscribers at end-June, up 19.7% (6.5% penetration). The piece flags rising pressure: editing and image-generation features are becoming free and generic across CapCut, Canva and Google's Nano Banana, H1 2026 compute and cloud costs rose 25% to RMB 134 million (over half of the increase from inference), gross margin slipped 3.8 points to 71.5%, and Meitu is pursuing a 'model container' approach that uses Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang base model for video generation.

   钛媒体 · 🔥 0
4. 7d
   a16z Top 100 AI apps: few pay for AI, but the top 1% spend about $900 a month

   Andreessen Horowitz published the seventh edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Apps ranking, adding observed US consumer card spending data from YipitData panels for the first time. It says nearly half of US consumers use AI, but only about 4.5% had an active paid subscription to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude in August, and spending is extremely concentrated: the top 1% of payers account for nearly a fifth of observed spending at roughly $900 a month, versus about $25 for the typical paying user. ChatGPT leads web traffic at roughly double Gemini's and six times Claude's, with Claude now a clear third and roughly level with Gemini in paid US subscribers.

   The Decoder · 🔥 0
5. Oct 9
   a16z adds revenue ranking to Top 100 Gen AI Apps; half of top earners miss usage lists

   a16z published the 7th edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Apps list, adding for the first time a Top 50 consumer AI ranking by monthly revenue; the usage-based Web and App lists added only 11 new products, the smallest change in three years. Revenue figures come from YipitData, which tracks card and receipt data from over 12 million US users, ranked by personal card payments to AI products in August 2026, with mainly NSFW-oriented products excluded. Of the 50 revenue leaders, 29 do not appear on the usage lists, and only ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Suno, Photoroom, Canva and Notion appear on all three; the piece profiles lesser-known earners including AI 3D platform Meshy, workflow tool n8n and Nous Research's open-source personal agent Hermes.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0
6. Oct 7
   Meta brings its Muse AI agent to iPad as installs top 6.6 million

   Meta announced on October 7 that its Muse assistant now has a dedicated iPad app, roughly a month after launching on iOS and Android on September 8. Installations have surpassed 6.6 million, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The update also adds small-business connectors such as Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom and Meta ad accounts, plus everyday connectors including Notion and Granola.

   9to5Mac · 🔥 0

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