Simon Willison Ships Rodney v0.4.0, a Browser Automation CLI Built for Coding Agents
Simon Willison's Rodney v0.4.0 lets AI coding agents drive Chrome and capture screenshots to prove their work. Eight PRs in one week.
Anthropic's $3 Model Matched Its $15 Flagship. The Spread Collapsed.
Anthropic's $3 Sonnet 4.6 matches its $15 Opus on enterprise benchmarks. The pricing premium collapsed in two weeks.
Simon Willison Ships Rodney v0.4.0, a Browser Automation CLI Built for Coding Agents
Simon Willison's Rodney v0.4.0 lets AI coding agents drive Chrome and capture screenshots to prove their work. Eight PRs in one week.
Researchers Propose Biosecurity Data Levels to Control AI Access to Pathogen Datasets
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
AI News
India Expects $200 Billion in AI Investment, Tech Minister Says at New Delhi Summit
India expects $200 billion in AI investment over two years, anchored by Adani's $100 billion data center pledge and Anthropic's first India office.
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label Over Military AI Limits
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
Sitegeist Raises €4M to Automate Concrete Repair With Autonomous Robots
Sitegeist raised €4M to deploy autonomous concrete repair robots on German infrastructure. The machines work up to 10x faster than manual crews.
SpaceX and xAI Enter Secret $100M Pentagon Contest for Autonomous Drone Swarms
SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Analysis
OPINION: Europe Trained Steinberger. OpenAI Hired Him.
Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw in Vienna. OpenAI hired him. No European institution even picked up the phone.
Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI over Meta. The code was never the prize. The adoption graph was.
OPINION: Silicon Valley Ships AI. The World Builds Exits.
American AI dominance follows the dollar playbook: offer freely, create dependency, extract. Allies are already building exits.
Amazon Is Outspending Everyone on AI. It's Still Losing Ground.
Amazon will spend $200 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Azure is gaining faster, Nvidia captures 60% of the spend, and AWS employees prefer a competitor's model.
Politics
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label Over Military AI Limits
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
Anthropic Spent Millions on Ads to Tell You It Hates Ads
Anthropic paid $8M+ for Super Bowl ads mocking ChatGPT's ad model. Sam Altman's 400-word rant shows exactly which nerve it hit.
Pactum CEO Warns Agents on Moltbook Have "Crossed the Rubicon," Calls for Immediate Guardrails
Pactum CEO Kaspar Korjus, whose AI agents negotiate for Walmart and Rolls-Royce, warns Moltbook has created autonomous agents that can't be shut down.
France Raids X Offices as Europe Opens Four Probes Against Musk Platforms
France raided X's Paris offices with Europol on Tuesday and summoned Musk for questioning. Hours later, the UK and EU opened separate probes into Grok deepfakes.
Vibe Coding
Vibe Coding Got a Promotion. Nobody Checked Its Work.
Karpathy renamed vibe coding to 'agentic engineering.' The $45 billion industry's security record suggests the upgrade is premature.
MiniMax Matched Opus at 5% of the Price. The AI Premium Is Dead.
MiniMax M2.5 scores within 0.6 points of Opus 4.6 at one-twentieth the price. The AI premium business model may not survive.
The Accidental Architect: How Boris Cherny Built Silicon Valley's Most Talked-About Coding Tool
Meet Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic. His viral workflow runs 10 AI agents in parallel. He hasn't written code by hand in months.
Clawdbot: How to Build Your Own AI Assistant for Five Dollars a Month
Step-by-step tutorial to set up Clawdbot on a $5 VPS or old hardware. Copy-paste commands, WhatsApp integration, and security best practices.
Funding
Sitegeist Raises €4M to Automate Concrete Repair With Autonomous Robots
Sitegeist raised €4M to deploy autonomous concrete repair robots on German infrastructure. The machines work up to 10x faster than manual crews.
The Stanford team that invented generative agents wants to kill the focus group
The Stanford team that invented generative agents raised $100 million to build AI simulations of real people. CVS and Wealthfront are already testing Simile's behavioral prediction platform.
Runway Raises $315 Million to Build AI World Models at $5.3 Billion Valuation
Runway closed a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation and plans to pivot from AI video generation to building world models that simulate physical reality.
The $200 million middleman between humans and machines
Micro1 surged from $4M to $200M revenue in 14 months supplying human experts to AI labs. Founder Ali Ansari, 25, now targets a $2.5B valuation.
AI Research
Anthropic Study Finds 1 in 1,000 Claude Conversations Risk Distorting Users' Grip on Reality
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic Finds the Off-Switch for AI Personality Drift
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
The Quarantine Strategy: To make an AI remember the past, you have to protect it from the future
A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on texts from 1800-1875 London. When he prompted it about 1834, the model described street protests and Lord Palmerston. He Googled it. The protests were real. What does it mean when an AI starts accidentally telling the truth about history?
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