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Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details Wing Plans First Bay Area Home Drone Deliveries as Walmart Network Targets 270 Locations Zuckerberg's Bots Run Meta. Cursor's Bot Ran From Beijing. Tesla and SpaceX Pitch $25B Terafab Chip Project Starting in Austin, Offer No Timeline Zuckerberg Builds AI Agent to Help Run Meta as Workers' Bots Start Talking to Each Other Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details Wing Plans First Bay Area Home Drone Deliveries as Walmart Network Targets 270 Locations Zuckerberg's Bots Run Meta. Cursor's Bot Ran From Beijing. Tesla and SpaceX Pitch $25B Terafab Chip Project Starting in Austin, Offer No Timeline Zuckerberg Builds AI Agent to Help Run Meta as Workers' Bots Start Talking to Each Other Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More
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Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details

Warren Says Pentagon Blacklisting of Anthropic 'Appears to Be Retaliation,' Seeks OpenAI Contract Details

Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist 'appears to be retaliation' and demanded OpenAI CEO Sam Altman release the full terms of the defense contract. Court filings show the Pentagon's own negotiator emailed Anthropic's CEO saying the two sides were 'very close' the day after the designation was finalized. Military staff are slow-rolling Claude's removal. A federal judge hears the case Tuesday.

By Marcus Schuler · 13 min read · a few seconds ago
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24 hours — How long Cursor's "in-house" claim lasted before a developer found Kimi K2.5's model ID in the API
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Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI share commands like /clear, /model, and @ file references. But similar commands behave differently across tools, context windows range from 192K to 1M tokens, and each company's strategic divergence tells a sharper story than the shared vocabulary.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read · Mar 22
Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes
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Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes

Claude Code Channels launched without voice messaging. A 120-line patch and a Whisper server add it in 20 minutes, with cloud alternatives for those without GPU hardware. Plus: how OpenClaw's agent improvised voice transcription before anyone built support for it.

Marcus Schuler · 15 min read · Mar 20
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Marcus Schuler · 17 min read · Mar 3
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“Meta reversed the Horizon Worlds VR shutdown in under 24 hours. But the real story is the institutional pattern: $80 billion spent, 200,000 users at peak, and a stock market that rewards retreat. The same playbook now drives $135 billion in AI spending.”
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Meta's $80 Billion Metaverse Failed. The Playbook Survived.

Meta told Horizon Worlds users VR was shutting down on Tuesday. By Wednesday, CTO Bosworth reversed the whole decision on Instagram Stories. Under 24 hours. But the real story isn't the shutdown or the save. It's the pattern underneath: $80 billion in Reality Labs spending, a user base that peaked at 200,000, and a stock market that rewarded Meta for walking away. The same playbook now runs again, this time backed by $135 billion in AI capex.

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