TechCrunch
Anthropic Decides Humans Are Overrated, Makes Claude Code Auto Mode the Default
Anthropic makes Claude Code's auto mode the default, betting that AI's 89% harm-catching rate beats humans' 13.6% - and our 97% approval rate.
2026-08-10
TechCrunch
2026-07-25
ZDNet
Anthropic Drops Claude Opus 5: Near-Fable Performance for Half the Price, Because Why Not
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, promising near-Fable capabilities at half the price - because who doesn't want a cheaper, slightly less godlike AI?
2026-07-07
ZDNet
Claude Code Desktop Hits Linux, But Local AI Users Need Not Apply
Anthropic's Claude Code desktop app lands on Linux with full features, but local AI enthusiasts will find it about as welcoming as a Windows update.
2026-07-04
TechCrunch
Alibaba Tells Employees: No More Claude Code, Use Our Thing Instead
Alibaba officially bans employees from using Claude Code, which they weren't supposed to have access to anyway, and suggests using their own tool instead.
2026-05-29
TechCrunch
Anthropic Rushes Out Opus 4.8 With 'Dynamic Workflow' Tool, Possibly Because Everyone Hated the Last One
Anthropic rushes out Opus 4.8 just 41 days after the last one got a lukewarm reception, adding a 'dynamic workflow' tool and a newfound ability to admit it doesn't know things.
2026-05-21
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic's Developer Event Celebrates a Future Where Coders Just Watch
Anthropic's developer event celebrates a future where software writes itself, and most developers are fine not reading the code - what could possibly go wrong?
2026-05-15
Ars Technica
Anthropic Has No Long-Term Plan for Claude Code, and That's Apparently Fine
Anthropic admits it has no clue what Claude Code will look like next year, but says that's fine because the models are improving so fast that any plan would be obsolete anyway.
2026-05-14
TechCrunch
OpenAI Puts Codex on Your Phone, Because Your Desk Wasn't Good Enough
OpenAI puts its coding tool Codex in the ChatGPT app, because developers clearly didn't have enough ways to work from their phones.
2026-05-07
Ars Technica
Anthropic and SpaceX: A Match Made in Compute Heaven, Despite Elon Musk's Public Dislike
Anthropic and SpaceX team up for compute capacity, despite Musk's prior claim that Anthropic hates Western civilization - but hey, business is business.
2026-05-04
ZDNet
Agentic Coding Apocalypse? More Like a Weird Fusion Restaurant, Says Tech Veteran
Vibe coding won't cause an apocalypse, but it will serve you weird fusion cuisine that you'll have to test like an outsider, manage like contractors, and debug like a haunted house.
2026-05-02
The Verge
One Man's Bug-Fixing Odyssey: How 450,000 Hours of Error Logs Produced a Productivity App
The Installer newsletter goes full meta, featuring readers' homemade apps, a Cyberpunk radio, and a sushi bargain finder - because nothing says productivity like 450,000 hours of bug-fixing.
2026-04-30
ZDNet
I Asked ChatGPT Images 2.0 to Redesign My App UIs, and It Actually Made Good Suggestions Instead of Adding More Cats
Journalist feeds his clunky UIs to ChatGPT Images 2.0, gets back surprisingly useful design advice that doesn't involve adding sparkles or a cat in the corner.
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