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.
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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.