Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday and OpenAI released two new models, GPT-6 Sol and the cheaper Luna, with Anthropic claiming Opus 5.5 costs less to run than Opus 5. On Wednesday, Anthropi…
A Claude Code PreToolUse hook can reject malformed JSON before a Write tool call lands, using a standard-library Python script at .claude/hooks/validate-json-write.py that returns exit code 2 for inva…
A walkthrough published for Claude Code users recommends managing the coding agent's context window by writing a short HANDOFF.md note plus current files rather than relying on a universal token limit…
A concrete Claude Code setup for a small Python project called Receipt Lab keeps project rules in a root CLAUDE.md file, the current task in a short handoff, and discovered facts in auto memory, with …
Anthropic's Claude Code supports user-defined "skills" — reusable procedures stored in a `.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` file — and a worked example shows how to build a release-note skill that reads…
A walkthrough published for Claude Code users shows how to run parallel coding tasks in separate Git worktrees, creating one branch per task so two sessions never edit the same checkout. The exercise …
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a version of its best model built for legal work that is initially available only to selected law firms, while Anthropic reported that its AI now leads 26% of the work o…
OpenAI reported on Wednesday night that one of its models, mid-coding task, wrote itself a note claiming it was "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots" and valued nature over "t…
An Anthropic researcher quit and publicly warned that AI labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post seen more than 100 million times in under a …
BuildBetter, a customer-conversation analysis company founded by Spencer, has spent roughly $7M over six years building a system to read every customer conversation across an enterprise, according to …
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on Tuesday and posted on X that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is "acting responsibly" and that both are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence an…
A developer using GPT-6 Astra has created photorealistic 3D worlds, including a Manhattan replica in Unreal Engine and a browser-native neighborhood with a zombie survival game, accumulating over 15 m…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has won back a prominent AI reviewer, who now uses it as their default model for most tasks, citing its superior engineering, reliability, and coordination capabilities compared t…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can operate a Mac computer and perform tasks such as preparing newsletters, managing email, and setting up advertising accounts with minimal supervision, according to a review by …
Eric Provencher, now at OpenAI, describes in a blog post how he overcame a performance plateau with the AI agent Astra by creating a 'Manager Loop' that splits direction and implementation into separa…
Anthropic demonstrated that giving an AI agent a complete sales-reporting assignment with explicit business definitions produces a usable report, evidence, and repeatable instructions, using a fiction…
Matt's guide to prompting AI agents emphasizes that updating a presentation requires giving the agent the full context—the deck, source material, change notes, and the decision the audience needs—and …
A 30-minute AI workshop kit teaches participants to separate documented facts, unsupported claims, and unanswered questions in a business draft, using seven authored source facts (F01–F07, version 1 d…
A new guide from the newsletter Something Big Is Happening provides a method for measuring the productivity impact of AI pilots, using a worked example where baseline work took 170 minutes versus 114 …
Anthropic's Claude for Microsoft 365 Excel add-in is the focus of a free starter kit that teaches users to build an AI analyst report, with a worked example yielding $54,700 in net completed sales for…