- Anthropic: Claude Code on the web (Oct 20, 2025)
A new feature allowing users to delegate coding tasks directly from their browser to cloud-based Claude instances. This enables parallel execution of tasks like bug fixes and routine changes, with real-time progress tracking, secure sandboxing, and integration with GitHub for automatic PR creation. - Ed Zitron: This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services (Oct 20, 2025)
Ever the contrarian, Zitron points out that Anthropic’s outlays are in excess of revenue. Is this sustainable forever? No. Can they operate like this for the next 3-5 years? Without a doubt. - Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Oct 16, 2025)
A new method for enhancing Claude’s abilities by providing users with folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. - NY Times: How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics (Oct 20, 2025)
Chile is grappling with trade-offs of investing in AI, facing a dilemma between fostering economic growth and risking environmental damage and public opposition due to the resource-intensive data centers required. I would also add that the cost of AI data centers is also prohibitive for many countries today. - The Independent: Oversharing with AI: How your ChatGPT conversations could be used against you (Oct 19, 2025)
Intimate chat history is vulnerable to exploitation by law enforcement, criminals, and tech companies for targeted advertising, raising privacy concerns with limited legal protections. - WSJ: OpenAI’s Chip Strategy: Pair Nvidia’s Chocolate With Broadcom’s Peanut Butter (Oct 17, 2025)
OpenAI seeks to diversify chip procurement to meet the growing computing demands of its AI services.