Anthropic's S-1 disclosures undercut Dario Amodei's own call to slow down AI development. Plus Palantir's CTO on Stratechery, an Anthropic manager who dropped coding interviews, OpenAI reportedly buying Google's TPUs, Stripe's Instinct agent spending on its own, Simon Willison on an agent-run multiplayer game, Google's cyber-focused Gemini 4 Carbon, Noah Smith on a coming science boom, NYC Marathon's new Bronx route, and a wildcard: do jumping spiders dream?

Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post · Oct 29

Anthropic's SEC S-1 filing contradicts CEO Dario Amodei's public call to slow AI development pace.

Ben Thompson, Stratechery · Oct 29

Interview with Palantir's CTO on AI doomerism, effective altruism, and Silicon Valley's quasi-religious AI discourse.

Felix Rieseberg · Oct 27

Anthropic engineering manager explains why he dropped coding interviews now that Claude outperforms candidates on them.

Omor Ibne Ehsan, 24/7 Wall St · Oct 28

Report says OpenAI plans to buy Google TPUs alongside Nvidia GPUs, challenging Nvidia's chip dominance.

The Defiant · Oct 27

Stripe's Link wallet now funds AI shopping agent Instinct with stablecoin balances and per-purchase spending limits.

Simon Willison · Oct 29

Willison highlights Spawn, a multiplayer game world built and run by autonomous Claude Fable-class agents.

Aseem Kishore, Online Tech Tips · Oct 28

Google's new flagship model targets cybersecurity defense and long-horizon tasks, launching first to select defenders.

Noah Smith, Noahpinion · Oct 29

Argues AI will reverse the decades-long scientific slowdown by multiplying the number of effective researchers.

Tyler Thrasher, FOX 5 NY · Oct 28

Guide to the 2026 NYC Marathon's first Bronx course change in 15 years, ahead of Nov. 1.