π° AI Dev Weekly
The week's biggest AI developer news, with my take
Every Thursday- #7
AI Dev Weekly #7: Claude Code Loses Pro Plan, GitHub Copilot Freezes Signups, and Two Chinese Models Drop in 48 Hours
This week: Anthropic removes Claude Code from Pro, GitHub pauses all Copilot signups, Kimi K2.6 and MiMo V2.5 Pro launch within 48 hours, and flat-rate AI subscriptions are dying.
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AI Dev Weekly Extra: Did Anthropic Let Opus 4.6 Rot So 4.7 Would Look Better?
Opus 4.6 degraded for weeks. Now Opus 4.7 arrives with huge benchmark gains. Coincidence? Here's what actually happened and why it matters for developers.
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AI Dev Weekly #6: OpenAI's $852B Wobble, GPT-5.4 Solves 60-Year Math Problem, and Agents Get Infrastructure
This week: OpenAI investors question the valuation while VCs throw $800B at Anthropic, GPT-5.4 Pro cracks an ErdΕs conjecture, OpenAI ships agent sandboxes, Gemini CLI gets subagents, and a federal court rules your AI chats aren't privileged.
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AI Dev Weekly #5: Anthropic's Too-Dangerous Model, $30B Revenue, and China's GLM-5.1 Beats Everyone
This week: Anthropic built Claude Mythos but won't release it, hit $30B revenue surpassing OpenAI, Meta shipped Muse Spark, and a Chinese open-source model topped the coding leaderboard.
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AI Dev Weekly #4: Anthropic Leaks Everything, OpenAI Raises $122B, and Qwen 3.6 Drops Free
This week: Anthropic accidentally publishes Claude Code's entire source code to npm, OpenAI closes the largest private funding round in history, and Alibaba drops Qwen 3.6 Plus for free on OpenRouter.
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AI Dev Weekly #3: Claude Code Goes Auto, Cursor's Chinese Secret, and GitHub Wants Your Data
This week: Anthropic ships auto mode and Discord/Telegram channels for Claude Code, Cursor gets caught building Composer 2 on a Chinese open-source model, and GitHub will train on your Copilot data by default.
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AI Dev Weekly Extra: Xiaomi's Trillion-Parameter 'Hunter Alpha' Was Never DeepSeek V4
A mystery AI model appeared on OpenRouter with no attribution. Everyone assumed it was DeepSeek V4. It was Xiaomi. Here's why that matters for developers.
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AI Dev Weekly #2: Garry Tan's 'God Mode', Cursor Composer 1.5, and Anthropic Finds Firefox Bugs
This week: Y Combinator's CEO shares his Claude Code setup and the internet loses its mind, Cursor ships RL-trained self-summarization, and Claude Opus finds 22 Firefox vulnerabilities.
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AI Dev Weekly #1: Claude Code Takes the Crown, Musk Raids Cursor
This week's biggest AI developer news: Claude Code is now the most-used coding tool, xAI poaches two senior Cursor engineers, and 95% of devs now use AI weekly.