OpenAI tries to build its coding cred by acquiring Astral
… In a blog post on Thursday, software developer Simon Willison remarked that the two deals have occurred amid intense competition between OpenAI and Anthropic. …
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The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight
… Accessing OpenAI's or Anthropic's top models requires exposing potentially sensitive customer data or intellectual property to an API or chatbot. …
Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent
… "Rather than betting on a single model, we built a system that makes every model useful at work." Althoff said Copilot can make use of models from OpenAI and Anthropic in a way that avoids locking customers in. …
Cheap Chinese models are overtaking Anthropic
… But there's a more fundamental risk – remaining relevant in the face of increasingly capable competition from China. …
Founder finds Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude
… A spokesperson sent us a statement: MORE CONTEXT Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Amazon and Nvidia open t… …
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch
… A built-in orchestration harness decides when to call tools, how to manage context, and how to recover from errors." MORE CONTEXT Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them 'Several dozen' high-value… …
I vibe coded web app: It was enlightening and uncomfortable
… By late 2025, around the release of Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and OpenAI's Codex 5.2, the models had improved to the point that vibe coding was just coding. …
Claude Code's source reveals extent of system access
… Initially this was done via Statsig, which was acquired by rival OpenAI last September, presumably triggering the switch to GrowthBook, a platform that supports A/B testing and analytics. …