Anthropic is in talks with Meta over a data center deal worth around $10 billion over two years, per CNBC. The twist: Anthropic would be renting capacity from a direct competitor — and it wants an early-exit option.
OpenAI is rebuilding its desktop app: a global switcher moves between ChatGPT and Codex, Chat and Work land together in Recents, and cloud Work conversations sync across web, mobile and desktop. Live since July 18 for all plans on macOS and Windows.
Starting July 20, Fable 5 is a permanent part of every Max and Team Premium plan — at 50 percent of the limits. Pro and Team Standard users lose bundled access but get a one-time $100 credit. With that, Anthropic ends weeks of 'Fablepocalypse'.
Anthropic is lobbying US states for stricter obligations on frontier labs: independent safety audits and more government oversight. It would apply only to the largest developers — so, to Anthropic too. Critics still smell a strategy.
Two releases in two days. Auto mode now blocks destructive commands — 'git reset --hard', 'terraform destroy' and friends only run if you actually asked for them. Plus subagent streaming and a worktree guard that rescues unpushed commits.
Simon Willison proved it on his own install: since version 2.1.181, Claude Code uses the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster — and almost nobody noticed. That's exactly the point.
Bun from Zig to Rust, a Python codebase to TypeScript over a weekend. Anthropic just published how it runs large code migrations — and the core idea is surprisingly simple: you don't fix the code, you fix the loop that produces it.
On July 17, Fable 5 suddenly disappeared behind a paywall for paying users — two days before the model was set to leave the plans anyway. Anthropic fixed it in half an hour and refunded credits. A small outage with unfortunate timing.