… When OpenAI finished training o3 in early 2025—a model optimized for coding even more than o1—it finally had the foundation to build a real AI coding product. But Claude Code was already poised to launch publicly. OpenAI was scrambling to stand up a competing product. …
… OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars more than Cursor, so they can afford to keep spending heavily on customer acquisition though Anthropic is starting to adjust its rate limits for Claude Code subscriptions . …
… OpenAI executives say they’d like Codex to power general-purpose agents inside of ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Anthropic has already built a version of this, Claude Cowork, an offshoot of Claude Code that doesn’t require users to open up a terminal. …
… Microsoft spokesperson Kate Frischmann said the tech giant would continue offering Claude to US agencies and businesses except the Department of Defense. OpenAI did not specify when its technology would be ready to replace Claude in military software. …
… As more and more people use services like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code—sometimes running coding programs and agentic tasks for hours on end—the services are being bogged down. According to Anthropic, the average developer is now spending at least 20 hours per week running Claude Code. …
… And Claude may then be a little more inclined to say something cheery or put extra effort into vibe coding. “What was surprising to us was the degree to which Claude’s behavior is routing through the model’s representations of these emotions,” says Jack Lindsey, a researcher at Anthropic who studie… …
… In August 2025, Anthropic blocked OpenAI’s access to its Claude coding models after the company alleged that its terms of service had been violated. …
… The majority of Anthropic’s recent revenue growth has come from Claude Platform, an enterprise product that allows developers to tap into the company’s AI models through an API, according to Anthropic’s head of product for the Claude Platform, Angela Jiang. …
… Anthropic’s new, 158,000-square-foot office footprint will have space enough for 800 people—four times its current head count—giving it room to potentially outscale OpenAI, which itself recently announced an expansion in London. “Europe's largest businesses and fastest-growing startups are choosing… …
… OpenAI is combining a model where it partners with certain organizations on limited releases with an automated system introduced in February, known as Trusted Access for Cyber or TAC. …