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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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation
Trump's AI framework targets state laws, shifts child safety burden to parents | TechCrunch
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
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Nonsense
NASA sends Outlook around Moon, immediately needs IT help
Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House
AI CEO vs Engineer (2026).
Poor Blue Blob
Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit
Listener Feedback
Michael Neal: built mesh-llm — Decentralised LLM Inference
Shaun built: workworkwork
Brandon’s App: Milestone Birthday and Anniversary Tracker
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