Anthropic ships Claude Code mods that let users rewrite its prompts and interface, while Ben Thompson surveys open questions in OpenAI's and Meta's agent strategies. Plus Simon Willison argues for default API spending caps, Anthropic presses ahead with a pre-Thanksgiving IPO, Google limits free Gemini users ahead of a Deep Think rollout, Trump names Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task force, Derek Thompson on why AI hasn't delivered the price deflation it promised, a ChatGPT-assisted fertility diagnosis on Astral Codex Ten, and a wildcard: a two-year trial finds diet soda works as well as water for weight loss.

Paul Sawers, The New Stack · Oct 2

Anthropic's new Claude Code mods let users rewrite prompts, block tool calls, and redesign the interface via plugins.

Ben Thompson, Stratechery · Oct 2

Weekly roundup examining Meta's consumer AI-agent focus and open questions about OpenAI's product direction.

swyx, Latent Space · Sep 29

Podcast interview with Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar on Claude Code's harness, mods, projects, and multiplayer agent coordination.

Simon Willison · Oct 3

Argues cloud services and APIs should ship default hard spending limits rather than warning-only soft caps.

Robert Hof, SiliconANGLE · Oct 2

Reports Anthropic still plans a pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite market jitters and growing AI-safety regulatory scrutiny.

Abner Li, 9to5Google · Oct 3

Google is cutting free and AI Plus Gemini users to weaker models while AI Pro gains Deep Think.

Associated Press · Oct 4

Trump appointed Jay Clayton to lead a new "Super Intelligence Force" coordinating federal AI policy and oversight.

Derek Thompson · Oct 2

Argues AI's promised price deflation never arrived, leaving costs rising even as the technology concentrates wealth.

Drew Housman, Astral Codex Ten · Oct 2

A guest essay on how ChatGPT prompted the scan that found a fibroid behind years of unexplained infertility.