Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation
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Conductor Is Joining Meta
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Conductor announced that it is joining Meta and will wind down its product in stages. Conductor Cloud becomes read-only on November 13, 2026, and shuts down on November 20. The local Mac app will continue receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. Users can move an individual cloud workspace and its chats to their Mac by right-clicking the workspace and choosing “Transfer to local.” To download all account data, they can use Settings → Account → Export data. The announcement thanks users and directs anyone needing help to contact the team by email.
The 0.93.0 update also adds support for custom completion sounds, lets users choose and name sound files in settings, and gives archived cloud workspaces a panel showing their pull requests, last known changes, and file tree. GPT-6.1 Terra has been added to the Codex model picker. Fixes address Claude usage-limit displays, misleading recent activity times on inactive closed chats, and agent-to-agent messages that lacked a clear recipient and content label. Other changes improve workspace renaming, keep pull request numbers visible beside long titles, and make expanded Mermaid diagrams fill the window rather than appear in a narrow popup.
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