Perfectly reasonable. Perfectly normal. What’s a billion worth these days anyway? An hour of Claude Code tokens?

Chronicle – Codex | OpenAI Developers Build Codex memories from recent screen context.

Do I hear echoes of Copilot Recall reverberating in the cloud? developers.openai.com/codex/memori...

Google Creates Strike Team to Improve Coding Models Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its o...

I often find myself forgetting about the Gemini models. There’s a great release and then that’s immediately overshadowed by OpenAI and Anthropic. And those will have 5 updates before we get another Gemini again. www.theinformation.com/articles/goo...

Has Stitch Fix announced an AI pivot yet?

Meta debuts new AI model, attempting to catch Google, OpenAI after spending billions Meta debuted its first major large language model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Congrats! You now have private access to a model that’s almost as good as some other ones. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/m...

Push events into a running session with channels - Claude Code Docs Use channels to push messages, alerts, and webhooks into your Claude Code session from an MCP server. Forward CI results, chat messages, and monitoring events so Claude can react while you're away.

Channels for Claude Code are cool, but to me, the most interesting developments around Claude have been the new Cowork features like schedule, dispatch, etc. Schedule probably accounts for most of my token usage and always makes me wonder why I should use the claws code.claude.com/docs/en/chan...

The Pentagon's Anthropic problem is every enterprise's AI problem Learn why the Pentagon’s standoff with Anthropic highlights the risks of AI model lock-in and how orchestration layers offer a path to model independence.

The Pentagon's Anthropic problem is every enterprise's AI problem

I don’t know anything about what happened behind the scenes with the OpenAI/Department of Defense deal, but also… people have quit SV jobs for less.

I can't remember when I last saw a company have a better PR run than Anthropic.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Now it’s OpenAI’s turn. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

I’m trying to imagine what that meeting between Pete Hegseth and Dario Amodai was like. Can’t imagine they have much in common.

Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

The podcast bro theory of international diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

If we cut all the funding for the research, it doesn’t happen, right? Just like with counting Covid cases.

Totally would. But there’s no ice...

Me: Great. Flight to Amsterdam is arriving early. Might even get an earlier train to my father’s place.

Also me: in a hotel in Amsterdam 12 hours later because the trains didn’t run all day because of snow.

Not a proud Dutchman today.

That SCSI cable from my 1990s scanner will come in handy one day…

Truly the dumbest timeline.

Agent Skills: Anthropic's Next Bid to Define AI Standards Anthropic is opening up its Agent Skills spec, following the same playbook that turned MCP into an industry standard.

Anthropic is opening up its Agent Skills spec, following the same playbook that turned MCP into an industry standard.

By @fredericl.bsky.social

Was there Oscars content anywhere else?

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...

Woke weather has to go. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Escaped for a few days.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Fresh from #KubeCon, The New Stack’s @fredericl.bsky.social sits down with new @cncf.io Executive Director Jonathan Bryce to unpack the foundation’s next chapter.

The Rise of the Cognitive Architect In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we discussed how AI is reshaping developer roles, why GitLab is building an agent orchestration platform, and what the "meta agent" of the future might look like.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we discussed how AI is reshaping developer roles, why GitLab is building an agent orchestration platform, and what the "meta agent" of the future might look like.

By @fredericl.bsky.social, thanks to @gitlab.com

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These are actually some good Google Search updates? blog.google/products/sea...

I appreciate them doing this because it'll only raise the value of having real people on real podcasts.

The next Pebble gadget is the Index 01, a ring with a microphone It’s an easy way to talk to your phone, and potentially a way to make it do stuff. Just don’t call it an agent.

If I see you talking into your Pebble ring, I'll give you a wide berth and unfollow you on LinkedIn. www.theverge.com/gadgets/8403...

Trump Says Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal Will Need Review President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns for Netflix Inc.’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., noting that the market share of the combined entity may pose problems.

He's just angling for a free lifetime premium subscription. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#CrueltyIsThePoint

I will only accept a Dutch replacement.