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Maury flagged the Latent Space interview with Felix Rieseberg — Cowork was stitched together in ten days, and the near-term plan has agents running with their own Gmail accounts, Slack handles, and files. Achal's read in the thread: everything has accelerated. This is the shape of what we're designing against.
A defensive-security variant of GPT-5.4, rolling out first to vetted researchers and security vendors — arriving a week after Anthropic's Mythos reveal.
Claude Managed Agents hits public beta
Anthropic's hosted runtime for production agents opens up at $0.08 per runtime-hour — the "how do we actually run this in prod" question gets an answer.
Google previews I/O 2026 sessions
First look at the May 19–20 session list — Android and AI tracks leading, a few agent-adjacent sessions worth scanning once titles firm up.
Shopify opens the admin to coding agents
Merchants can now drive their store through Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and friends — every commerce primitive is now an agent target, which is exactly the posture we've been arguing for.
GitHub ships native Stacked PRs
Achal's note: the right shape for big features and for AI-assisted work — break the change into a chain of small, reviewable diffs instead of one wall.
NYT on Medvi, the "two-person billion-dollar" AI company
Matthew Gallagher's LA telehealth outfit posted $401M in year one with a headcount of two — worth reading alongside the FDA warning letter and class-action filing the piece mostly sidesteps.
1Password unlocks with a passkey. Rishav's note: auth is getting noticeably lighter on the hands. 1password.com · Rishav
Guillermo Rauch post from Vercel, shared without framing. x.com/rauchg · Achal
Anthony Morris post, dropped with a fire reaction and no caption. x.com/amorriscode · Achal
Google AI Devs post from early in the week, no commentary attached. x.com/googleaidevs · Achal
Three YouTube tabs Achal dropped without captions — one, two, three. Worth a scan on your own time. youtube.com · Achal