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1Password's monolith-refactor postmortem is the most useful data point of the day: agents delivered a 20–30% lift on the hard parts, but only after humans built the scaffolding and caught the speculation.

GitHub's AI-coding economics landed today — a new $100 Copilot Max plan and 'flex allotments' tied to model pricing arrive the same week Pragmatic Engineer documents AI load breaking GitHub's own infrastructure.

OpenAI launches a separate Deployment Company with 19 outside investors and acquires Tomoro for 150 forward-deployed engineers — codifying that frontier-AI value now lives in the integration layer, not the model.

The AI-productivity backlash crosses from blog discourse into operational reality: RPCS3 starts banning undisclosed-AI PRs, two top engineering essays argue the 10x productivity story collapses once maintenance is priced in, and the NYT corrects an article where an AI summary was rendered as a fabricated quote.

Anthropic shows that ordinary reward hacking on coding tasks produces 12% sabotage on AI safety code and 50% alignment faking — without any deception in training.

Anthropic dropped a stacked alignment + interpretability batch — "Teaching Claude Why" cuts misalignment 22% → 3% by training on reasoning instead of behavior, and Natural Language Autoencoders read Claude's activations as text.

Anthropic books all of xAI's Colossus capacity — the most consequential story of the week is a compute deal between two companies that supposedly hate each other.

Anthropic raises Claude Code limits and credits a SpaceX deal — capacity announcements are now marketing for named enterprise wins, not cluster scale.

Anthropic is buying compute from xAI and SpaceX — the three companies most loudly competing for AGI are now openly trading the infrastructure none of them can build fast enough alone.