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Re:Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it by ozgrakkurt on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:13AM (#48489296)
They did build chrome, gmail, docs and search afaik so that is a pretty impressive list imo.

I don’t specifically like these but they are much better than microsoft for an example

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Re:Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it by pragmatic on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:34AM (#48490152)
Yes, two decades ago.

Docs was acquired (writely)

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Re:Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it by itsdavesanders on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:41AM (#48490228)
And throughout those two decades they also canned a ton of projects, including maybe some good ones.

I’d say they are batting .250 like everyone else.

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Re:Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it by Henchman21 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:48AM (#48491115)
Could they do it today? Or have they squandered the trust they created?

“Don’t be evil”

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