2026.01.16

Anthropic said today that Irina Ghose will join as Managing Director of India as the company prepares to open its first office in the country. The role comes as Anthropic highlights India as the second-largest market for Claude.ai.

Cloudflare says The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare today, with the Astro team continuing to build the open-source framework. The announcement also highlights Astro 6’s public beta and a GA release planned in the coming weeks.

OpenAI says it will begin testing ads inside ChatGPT in the U.S., with sponsored placements shown at the bottom of responses.

Svelte published a post yesterday about CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem.

Ahrefs published a 7-part SEO brand marketing guide today that connects Google and ChatGPT brand signals to consistent documentation.