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OpenAI's models are on AWS Bedrock the day after Microsoft lost exclusivity
Amazon shipped Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI on April 28, plus Codex on Bedrock. Altman tells Stratechery the runtime matters as much as the model.
Dieter Morelli
Software engineer based in Budapest. Writes devtake.dev because the 30-open-tabs approach to tech news doesn't scale. Covers AI, models, and agents.
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Disney built an AI leaderboard. One employee called Claude 460,000 times in nine days.
Leaked internal Disney screenshots show 4,800 product and tech staff burning 3.1 billion Claude tokens and 13.3 billion Cursor tokens across nine April workdays.
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GitHub Copilot kills premium requests on June 1. Token billing arrives, fallback models do not.
On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.
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Microsoft and OpenAI just rewrote their deal. Exclusivity is dead, and so is the AGI clause.
Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.
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OpenAI just retired SWE-bench Verified. The headline coding benchmark of 2025 is officially saturated.
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is saturated and contaminated, and 60% of remaining problems are unsolvable. Here's what comes next, and why every coding leaderboard is suspect.
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OpenAI's Privacy Filter is a 1.5B PII redactor that ships under Apache 2.0. Here's what it actually does.
OpenAI released Privacy Filter on April 22 as an open-weight on-device model for masking eight types of PII. F1 of 96%. Runs in a browser. Here's the catch.
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An AI agent built a working RISC-V CPU from a 219-word prompt in 12 hours. Here's what it actually did.
Verkor's Design Conductor agent went from a 219-word spec to a tape-out-ready RISC-V core called VerCore in 12 hours. The catch: it's still a Celeron.
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A Discord group guessed Anthropic's URL pattern and walked into Claude Mythos
Bloomberg reports a small group accessed Anthropic's locked-down Mythos model the same day it launched, using credentials from a third-party contractor and educated URL guessing.
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DeepSeek V4 lands: 1.6T-param open MoE, 1M-token context, and SWE-bench within 0.2 of Opus 4.6
DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.
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Google is putting up to $40B into Anthropic. That's five days after Amazon's $5B.
Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.
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Anthropic admits three Claude Code bugs quietly tanked quality for six weeks
Anthropic's April 23 postmortem names three bugs that degraded Claude Code between March 4 and April 20. Usage limits are being reset for every subscriber.
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OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 seven weeks after 5.4. API tokens now cost twice as much.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) on April 23. The API runs at $5/$30 per million tokens, double GPT-5.4, with Pro at $30/$180.
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OpenAI's Workspace Agents kill Custom GPTs and take the fight straight to Claude Code
Workspace Agents for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, plus Teachers launched April 22. Team-shared, cloud-run, Codex-powered. Free until May 6, then credit-based.
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Worldcoin promoted a Bruno Mars partnership that doesn't exist. His team had to say so publicly.
Sam Altman's World pitched its 'Concert Kit' ticketing feature with a Bruno Mars partnership at its April 17 event. Live Nation told reporters no such deal exists.
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GitHub Copilot paused new signups and kicked Opus out of Pro. Here's what actually changed.
GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.
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Amazon puts another $5B into Anthropic. Anthropic promises $100B back to AWS.
Amazon added $5B (up to $20B) to its Anthropic stake. Anthropic committed $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and 5 GW of Trainium capacity.
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NSA is running Anthropic's Mythos. The Pentagon says Anthropic is a supply-chain risk.
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.
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Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the brain, not the hands. Here's how the new two-model robotics stack works.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.
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Anthropic shipped Claude Design. Figma stock dropped 7% the same day.
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a prompt-to-prototype tool that exports to Canva, not Figma. Figma's stock closed down 7% on the same day.
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Sam Altman's Orb is now your Tinder badge. World goes mass-market.
World ID is rolling out to Tinder US, Zoom, Shopify, DocuSign, and Okta. Tools for Humanity is betting iris scans solve the bot problem.
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Cursor wants $50B for an AI editor that's burning cash on individuals
Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.
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OpenAI's Codex now drives your Mac, not just your code
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.
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Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B: the open MoE beating Opus 4.7 on Simon Willison's laptop
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.
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Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and the long-context benchmarks got worse
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is state-of-the-art on SWE-bench and CursorBench, but independent tests show regressions on long-context retrieval and thematic reasoning.
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Google Gemini finally has a Mac app, and it's gunning for ChatGPT's desktop lead
Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for defensive security, opens access to thousands
OpenAI's new cybersecurity-tuned model can reverse-engineer binaries and analyze malware. It's restricted to verified defenders through the Trusted Access program.
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Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant can now drive Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom for you
Adobe renamed Project Moonlight to Firefly AI Assistant and opened a public beta. It runs multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and more.
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Claude Code Routines: what they actually do, and when to use them over GitHub Actions
Anthropic just shipped Routines: Claude Code sessions as cron jobs, webhooks, and GitHub-event reactors. Here's what they replace, what they don't, and one rule to follow.