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Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own in-house versions across several Copilot products, including Excel and Outlook.…
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Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost
yesterday
Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in “a few hours”
2d ago
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
3d ago
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
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Most major AI chatbots still lean left on political questions, even “anti-woke” models are no exception
A Washington Post investigation finds most major AI chatbots take left-leaning positions on political…
25 Jun 2026
Grok AI is reportedly a porn platform now, with over half its traffic tied to adult content
The Information reports that more than half of all traffic to Grok AI now…
25 Jun 2026
Google bakes computer control directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, letting the model see and operate your screen
Google has integrated Computer Use directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, allowing the model to…
25 Jun 2026
simonw/browser-compat-db
Simon Willison has converted Mozilla’s extensive browser-compat-data repository into a 66MB SQLite database hosted…
25 Jun 2026
Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update
Figma released an update on Wednesday introducing code layers, native support for motion and…
24 Jun 2026
How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden
How hackers broke into Madison Square Garden A hacker group called ShinyHunters tricked a…
24 Jun 2026
Claude Tag embeds Anthropic’s AI in Slack, already writes 65 percent of internal code, company says
Anthropic says its new Slack integration, Claude Tag, is already writing 65 per cent…
24 Jun 2026OPFS + Pyodide test harness
On 23rd June 2026, Simon Willison released a browser-based test harness designed to allow…
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic is rolling out Claude Tag in research preview, an AI assistant that lives…
23 Jun 2026