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🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Microsoft just announced its AI and Agent Platform as a full enterprise stack — build, ground, govern, and operate agents at scale with security, compliance, and Responsible AI tooling. That’s great if you have a team of 50 engineers and a seven-figure budget. But what if you’re one person trying to build something that actually works? ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, I wrote about OpenAI’s Codex Micro and the pattern every major technology follows: a breakthrough becomes usable when someone builds a physical interface for it. The mouse made computers accessible. The touchscreen made smartphones intuitive. The Codex Micro is OpenAI doing the same thing for AI coding. ...

Anthropic shipped four models in two months, and the naming has scrambled half the developers I talk to. Claude Opus 5 — launched July 24, 2026 — is the one worth your attention. It matches frontier performance at half the frontier price, and introduces something no previous Claude model had: an effort dial that controls how much thinking you pay for per request. I’ve spent the last week running Opus 5 through actual work. Coding tasks, research synthesis, long-document analysis. If you read my breakdown of what Fable 5 and Mythos mean for AI users, you know Anthropic’s lineup has been a moving target. Fable 5 got banned, came back, and sits at $10 per million input tokens. Sonnet 5 is cheaper but weaker. Opus 5 lands in the middle — and on paper, it’s the smartest buy in the entire Claude family. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent three hours last Tuesday watching Browser Use try to fill out a job application form. It clicked the wrong field four times, got blocked by Cloudflare twice, and hallucinated a submit button that didn’t exist. The demo videos make it look like magic; my experience looked more like someone operating a mouse with oven mitts on. ...

OpenAI is launching a physical macro pad for Codex, and it follows the same pattern that made calculators, mice, and touchscreens mainstream.

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When General Intuition raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation to train AI agents on gaming data, the story was about where AI is going. Glow’s $180M raise at a $1.2B valuation is about something closer to home: what’s already running on your laptop right now — and who’s watching it. ...

Update August 2025: Google’s Gemini has surged past 1 billion users, making it the company’s fastest-growing product ever, while Google has also announced it will retire the classic Google Assistant on phones starting September 4. More details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re a solo developer shipping code to production, you probably have a nagging feeling you should be running security scans. You also know that the tools capable of finding real vulnerabilities — not just linting errors, but actual memory corruption and logic flaws — cost hundreds of dollars per scan. Google just made that problem a lot smaller. ...

Update August 2026: recent developments in meta ai may affect the information in this post — see details below. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been paying for ChatGPT Plus and testing Claude for months. They’re both solid — but last week Meta quietly rolled out something that made me rethink my entire AI stack. Meta AI can now manage your calendar, run recurring tasks on autopilot, and do research you can steer in real time. And it’s free. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Every AI tool you use today — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — belongs to a company. They set the prices, they control the data, and they can change the rules whenever they want. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially after writing about how AI agents are becoming employees — the more we depend on these systems, the more power their owners have. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI posted a 15-second video on X this week showing a square device with buttons, dials, and a touch sensor. The caption: “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.” It launches July 15th. And if you’ve been watching AI coding from the sidelines, this is the signal you’ve been waiting for. ...