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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It’s clearly an AI chair.I’ve given up on the green screenNo animals, only buttholesI don’t know if I can think on my ownMake your pecans really popDid they shut it down? I wasn’t paying attentionAlways take the first offer for a billion dollarsBad ParkingThe Apple IIE had this problemI was paying attention but I might have had a mouthful of cereal.Rundown
AnthropicAnthropic vs. OpenAI RevenueWhy Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattledWorkday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR AppsClouded Judgement 4.10.26 - Long Live the Harness (Wrapper?) !Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surgesAnthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usageAnthropic Buys Stealth Dimension-Backed Coefficient Bio in $400M+ Stock DealClaude Command /powerupPost-Mortem of Anthropic's Claude Code LeakOpenAI Palace IntrigueOpenAI's Fidji Simo takes medical leave, announces leadership changesOpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO TimingIndustrial policy for the Intelligence AgeOpenAI is getting weird again - Casey NewtonOpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup HiroLet Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is DeadOpenAI buys TBPNExclusive | OpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPNOpenAI Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPNOpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAIOpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk showOpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?BackstageBackstage is deadObservabilityCisco to grab Galileo for AI observability supercharge - SDxCentralDynatrace to Acquire Bindplane to Establish Telemetry Pipelines for AI and Cloud‑Native ObservabilityCursor and Coding AgentsCursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the defaultCursor's New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding AgentsCursor, Claude Code, and Codex are merging into one AI coding stack nobody plannedRelevant to your Interests
Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plansStarlink satellite trackerA Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux FoundationTrump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunchTIME100 AI 2025: Chris LehaneJack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes — not slide decks — to meetingsPost Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise · Issue #10636 · axios/axios · GitHubAddressing GitHub’s recent availability issuesIran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data centerSocial media is turning into a freak showThe Building Block EconomyGiant Mac mini cluster powers Overcast podcast transcripts without the cloudHow Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely FutureMaine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data CentersIntroducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal SuperintelligenceSiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technologyAmazon CEO takes aim at Nvidia, Intel, Starlink, more in annual shareholder letterGiving external agents access to Xcode | Apple Developer DocumentationFrance orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty pushYou can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employeesMeta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the bossLittle Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came CloseAI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: DeloitteAmazon jumps deeper into space raceAmazon buying Globalstar, to rival SpaceX's StarlinkMeta is making an AI Zuck to chat with employeesSponsors
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