May 13, 20269 items
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.
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May 12, 202610 items
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.
May 11, 20267 items
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.
May 10, 20269 items
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.
May 8, 20269 items
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.