- Simon Willison: Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic (Oct 20, 2025)
Anthropic has launched Claude Code for web, an asynchronous coding agent similar to OpenAI’s Codex Cloud and Google’s Jules, accessible via web and mobile. The key differentiator is sandboxing, an approach to reducing risk by limiting AI tools’ access to sensitive information. - Maginative: Anthropic Launches Claude for Life Sciences with Benchling, PubMed Integration (Oct 20, 2025)
Anthropic launched Claude for Life Sciences, an AI assistant integrated with scientific platforms like Benchling and PubMed, designed to aid researchers in various tasks from discovery to commercialization. - Maginative: Microsoft Launches Near-Identical Browser Days After OpenAI’s Atlas (Oct 23, 2025)
Microsoft expanded AI features for Copilot Mode in Edge, including voice-activated task automation and AI-generated browsing histories, closely resembling OpenAI’s recently released ChatGPT Atlas browser. - The Wall Street Journal: I Tried an AI Web Browser, and Now I’m a Convert (Oct 23, 2025)
“I was quickly hooked on delegating tedious, low-stakes tasks like booking restaurant reservations and finding furniture with precise dimensions.” But dangers of data exfiltration remain. Buyer beware. - WSJ: OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges (Oct 22, 2025)
The suit claims ChatGPT weakened suicide protections in its model and suggests that the tool provided guidance that directly contributed to Adam Raine’s death. AI tools are powerful, and as Uncle Ben noted, with great power comes great responsibility, both for creators and users of these products. - NY Times Opinion: The Next Economic Bubble Is Here (Oct 23, 2025)
But … we don’t know if said bubble pops today, tomorrow, or never. Economist Jason Furman discusses the high valuations of A.I. companies and the stock market and raises concerns of a bubble. - NY Times: Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs (Oct 22, 2025)
Company claims to be correcting earlier over-hiring. - Simon Willison: OpenAI no longer has to preserve all of its ChatGPT data, with some exceptions (Oct 23, 2025)
OpenAI must still retain chat logs already saved under the previous order and data related to ChatGPT accounts flagged by the NYT. - Maginative: Anthropic Secures 1M Google TPUs While Keeping Amazon as Primary Training Partner (Oct 23, 2025)
Anthropic is diversifying its compute infrastructure by committing to use up to one million Google TPUs in 2026. The company also projects revenue in FY26 to be $20-$26 billion. - WSJ: Amazon Testing New Warehouse Robots and AI Tools for Workers (Oct 22, 2025)
Amazon is increasing automation in its fulfillment centers with new technologies to improve efficiency and reduce costs. The company is again flexing its fulfillment chops, although I wonder if these robotic innovations will extend to the manufacturing realm. - NY Times: Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap (Oct 22, 2025)
Google’s quantum computer has a new algorithm, Quantum Echoes, that has proven to be 13,000 times faster than a traditional supercomputer. Seems significant to me.