Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration after the Pentagon labeled the company a "supply chain risk" — a designation historically reserved for foreign adversaries — effectively banning defense contractors from using its Claude AI. The dispute stems from Anthropic's refusal to allow Claude to be used for lethal autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of US citizens, with the Pentagon pushing back that it needs AI available for "all lawful purposes." The fallout is significant: Trump ordered all federal agencies to halt use of Claude, OpenAI and Google quickly moved in to fill the void, and Anthropic says the government's actions could cost it billions in 2026 revenue. In a rare show of cross-industry solidarity, dozens of employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind filed court briefs supporting Anthropic's case.

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VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has released its 6th edition of the top 100 generative AI consumer apps, and the big takeaway is that the line between "AI product" and "regular software" has effectively dissolved — tools like Canva, Notion, and CapCut now make the list as AI becomes core to their experience. ChatGPT remains the dominant force, reaching 900 million weekly active users, but Gemini and Claude are growing paid subscribers fast (258% and 200% YoY respectively), and users are increasingly multi-homing across platforms. The report also spotlights the rise of AI agents — including OpenClaw, acquired by OpenAI after becoming GitHub's most-starred project ever — and notes that traditional web/app metrics are increasingly failing to capture how deeply AI is now embedded in people's daily workflows.

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AI coding assistant Cursor is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $50 billion valuation — nearly double the $29.3 billion it was valued at just four months ago. The company, which launched in 2023 and helps developers write and debug code faster, has become one of the fastest-growing startups ever, with annualized revenue surpassing $2 billion and roughly 60% of that coming from enterprise customers. Its rise has been fuelled by the "vibe coding" boom — where anyone can describe what they want in plain English and AI builds the software — putting it on a collision course with rivals like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Talks are still preliminary and may not result in a deal.

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In a follow-up to his viral piece on AI agents, writer James Wang strips back the complexity for everyday users — showing how tools like Claude and ChatGPT Projects can act as a personal assistant that learns your preferences over time, no command line required. He walks through three practical examples: a language-learning chatbot, an automated morning briefing that pulls from your email and calendar, and a meeting transcription pipeline that uses parallel AI agents to process hours of recordings into a polished summary report. The key insight is that building useful agents isn't really a technical challenge — it's a clarity challenge: write specific instructions, connect the right tools, and break big tasks into focused chunks. A genuinely accessible read for anyone who's been curious about agents but didn't know where to start.

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Claude Code. I’ve struggled to recognise who this is for in the past. Most technical people want to see the code that AI is generating for them - this is why the Cursor IDE gained such traction. On the flipside, no non-technical person in their right mind wants to look at a terminal. With that said, I am continuously in awe of how effective Claude is at writing code. Happy building - send me your vibe coded projects and I will feature them! ([email protected])

On August 11, 1994 — the date widely cited as the first secure online purchase — a man named Phil Brandenberger used a credit card over an encrypted connection to buy a CD of Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales from a site called NetMarket for $12.48. That single transaction was the first real-world proof that encryption could make buying things online safe. The technology behind it — SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) — had only been developed that same year by a 26-year-old engineer at Netscape named Taher Elgamal. Every time you see the padlock icon in your browser today, you're looking at the direct descendant of that one CD purchase. Elgamal, often called "the father of SSL," is almost entirely unknown outside of cryptography circles despite his work underpinning trillions of dollars in global commerce.