April 17, 2026

Episode 568: Claude Code, OpenAI Drama, and Is Anyone Still Using Backstage?

1 hour 6 minutes

This week, we discuss Claude's harness, OpenAI's ongoing drama, and whether Backstage is still a thing. Plus, Coté gives up on the green screen.

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Runner-up Titles

It’s clearly an AI chair.

I’ve given up on the green screen

No animals, only buttholes

I don’t know if I can think on my own

Make your pecans really pop

Did they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attention

Always take the first offer for a billion dollars

Bad Parking

The Apple IIE had this problem

I was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal.

Rundown

Anthropic

Anthropic vs. OpenAI Revenue

Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps

Clouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) !

Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges

Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage

Anthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock Deal

Claude Command /powerup

Post-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code Leak

OpenAI Palace Intrigue

OpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changes

OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI is getting weird again - Casey Newton

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead

OpenAI buys TBPN

Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI

OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show

OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

Backstage

Backstage is dead

Observability

Cisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentral

Dynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native Observability

Cursor and Coding Agents

Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default

Cursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody planned

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Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation

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TIME100 AI 2025: Chris Lehane

Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetings

Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHub

Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues

Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center

Social media is turning into a freak show

The Building Block Economy

Giant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloud

How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers

Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence

SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology

Amazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letter

Giving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer Documentation

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push

You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close

AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte

Amazon jumps deeper into space race

Amazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's Starlink

Meta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employees