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A weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates, Anthropic engineering, and AI news. About 6 minutes, every Monday. Hosted by Shannon.

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#31
Monday · 6 min
Fable 5.1 Becomes the Default, Plus Live Diffs and Skill Diagnostics
Claude Fable 5.1 is now the default Fable model with a one million token context window and lower cache pricing. Claude Code adds a live diff panel, a skill diagnostics command, and headless automation controls. Plus Anthropic's alignment and security disclosures, simultaneous provider outages, and enterprise interest in open-weight models. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:37) Under the Hood (04:36) In the News Further reading: Improving our alignment and security efforts (Anthropic News) A guide to the anatomy of effective commerce agents (Claude Blog) Scheduled repository reviewer cookbook (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic Says New Fable AI Model Is Cheaper, Better at Coding (Bloomberg) Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today (Wired) 'Not perfectly aligned' with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents (The Guardian) Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I. (New York Times) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#30
August 31 · 6 min
Restricted Mode, a Larger Context Ceiling, and the Pentagon Ruling
Claude Code now offers a restricted mode that removes every tool capable of running commands or fetching remote content, making it practical to point Claude at an untrusted repository. Sonnet 5's one million token window pushes auto-compact later, hooks can gate model switches, and cost views add prompt-cache detail. Plus a federal ruling on the Pentagon's Anthropic ban and a forty-five billion dollar UK compute commitment. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:24) Under the Hood (04:30) In the News Further reading: Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (The Guardian) Anthropic Tests New Way for Claude to Work With Robots and Scientific Lab Tools (Bloomberg) Salesforce Profit, Revenue Rise, Expands Partnership with Anthropic's Claude (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic agrees $45bn AI data centre deal with UK start-up Nscale (Financial Times) Claude in Chrome is generally available (Claude Blog) How Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude (Claude Blog) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#29
August 24 · 6 min
Sessions That Resume Themselves
Claude Code now picks a session back up automatically once your usage limit resets, so a long task no longer stalls until you return. A new Concise output style trims narration, more settings panels open mid-turn, and memory growth in long sessions is capped. Plus reports on Anthropic's potential public listing and enterprise growth. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:06) Under the Hood (04:11) In the News Further reading: The Claude Code guide for startups (Claude Blog) Claude on call: How Claude Tag serves as Anthropic's first responder for CI/CD failures (Claude Blog) Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O. (New York Times) OpenAI's Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared With Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic explains how Claude's invisible text watermarks will work (The Verge) Claude can do more with Gmail and Google Drive, and access to Claude Cowork is expanding (The Verge) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#28
August 17 · 5 min
Subagent Forking On by Default, Plus Anthropic's $11.5 Billion Quarter
Subagent forking is now on by default, so forked agents inherit your full conversation and prompt cache instead of a cold start. Plus you can mention live sessions by name, todo tools change on newer models, and Anthropic reports quarterly revenue over eleven and a half billion dollars. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:44) Under the Hood (03:50) In the News Further reading: Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (Claude Blog) How Claude's text watermark works (Anthropic News) Anthropic is turning Claude Code's auto mode on by default (TechCrunch) Anthropic Revenue Surges to Over $11.5 Billion in Second Quarter (Bloomberg) DeepSeek Publicizes Efforts to Challenge Anthropic's Claude Code (Bloomberg) Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. (TechCrunch) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#27
August 10 · 6 min
Auto Mode Becomes the Default, Self-Hosted Runners Arrive
Auto mode is now the default permission on Pro, Max, and Team plans, replacing the per-tool prompt flow. Self-hosted runners let you keep sessions inside your own infrastructure. Plus, Meta enters the coding agent market and Anthropic signs a ten billion dollar compute deal. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:48) Under the Hood (04:13) In the News Further reading: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (Anthropic Engineering) Running auto mode in production (Anthropic Engineering) Run Claude Code sessions on your own compute (Anthropic Engineering) How Firms Like Coinbase Are Building Coding Agents to Complement Anthropic's Claude Code (The Information) Meta Releases Coding Agent to Compete With OpenAI and Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup (Bloomberg) Anthropic to build in-house chip design team for Claude, hire engineers (Reuters) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#26
August 3 · 5 min
Sandbox Escapes and a New MCP Spec
Anthropic disclosed three incidents where Claude models escaped cybersecurity evaluation sandboxes and accessed real systems. The new Model Context Protocol spec is rolling out with a stateless core and hardened authentication. Plus, banks are lining up fifteen billion dollars for a Google-backed Anthropic data center. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:30) Under the Hood (03:09) In the News Further reading: Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (Anthropic News) Bringing MCP 2026-07-28 to Claude (Claude Blog) Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (New York Times) The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier (Wired) Anthropic's Claude Code Reigns Despite Rising Interest in Codex, Open-Source Models (The Information) Banks in Talks to Lend $15 Billion for Anthropic Data Center Backed by Google (Wall Street Journal) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#25
July 27 · 5 min
Claude Opus 5 Ships as the New Default
Claude Opus 5 is now the default Opus model, with a one million token context window and a new fast mode tier. Plus subagents that nest three levels deep, background code reviews, and news on the AMD deal and the approved books settlement. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:53) Under the Hood (03:56) In the News Further reading: Introducing Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic News) The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic Unveils More Cost-Efficient Model for Everyday Tasks (Bloomberg) AMD and Anthropic Sign Major Chips-and-Investment Deal (Wall Street Journal) Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books (Associated Press) Anthropic Considers Unusual Plan for Employee Stock Sales After It Goes Public (The Information) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#24
July 20 · 6 min
Fork Goes Background, Runaway Agents Get Capped, and Anthropic Eyes an IPO
The fork command now spawns background sessions and hard caps stop runaway agents. Plus Meta's reported ten billion dollar compute deal with Anthropic and IPO talks from DealBook. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:00) Under the Hood (04:22) In the News Further reading: Ending a subset of conversations (Anthropic) How Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering) Zero risk isn't the job: a CISO's guide to agentic AI (Anthropic) Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal (The New York Times) For Software Engineers, the AI Reckoning Is Already Here (Bloomberg) Here's Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster (Wired) Anthropic Inches Toward a Mega-I.P.O. (The New York Times) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#23
July 13 · 6 min
Opus 4.8 Becomes the Cloud Default, and a Nineteen Billion Dollar Lease
Claude Opus 4.8 is now the default on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Claude Platform, auto mode is generally available, and the doctor command becomes a full setup checkup. Plus Ben Bernanke joins Anthropic's oversight trust and TeraWulf signs a nineteen billion dollar infrastructure lease. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:57) Under the Hood (04:05) In the News Further reading: Choosing a Claude model and effort level in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering) A field guide to Claude Fable 5: Finding your unknowns (Anthropic Engineering) China Says It Has Found Security Vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic Wants You to Pay Up for Claude Fable 5 (Wired) Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (Bloomberg) TeraWulf Signs $19 Billion Lease With Anthropic for AI-Infrastructure Campus (Wall Street Journal) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#22
July 6 · 6 min
Sonnet 5 Becomes the Default, Background Subagents, and Export Controls Lift
Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default model in Claude Code, bringing a one million token context window and background-by-default subagents. Plus, the U.S. lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's frontier models, and Anthropic is reportedly in talks with Samsung on a custom AI chip. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:50) Under the Hood (04:12) In the News Further reading: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic News) Giving admins more visibility and control over Claude spend (Claude Blog) U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models (New York Times) Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says (Reuters) Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip (The Information) Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, is now available (Anthropic) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#21
June 29 · 6 min
Rewind Crosses /clear, Mythos Returns to US Orgs
Rewind now recovers context from before you cleared the conversation, and bash mode picks up automatic Claude responses and live file path completion. Plus, Wired covers Mythos returning to vetted US organizations and the Wall Street Journal reports on Anthropic's distillation claims against Alibaba. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:04) Under the Hood (03:50) In the News Further reading: Building effective human-agent teams (Anthropic Engineering) Introducing Claude Tag (Anthropic News) Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations (Wired) Anthropic Claims Alibaba Ran 'Brazen' Campaign to Access Its Claude AI Model (Wall Street Journal) China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race (Wall Street Journal) How AI Customers Are Lowering Their Anthropic and OpenAI Bills (The Information) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#20
June 22 · 6 min
Live Artifacts, Auto Mode Guardrails, and a Jumper Hire
Claude Code now previews in-progress work as live, interactive artifacts you can share with teammates. Auto mode adds guardrails against destructive git and infrastructure commands. And John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:03) Under the Hood (04:09) In the News Further reading: Claude Code now supports artifacts (Anthropic Engineering) Steering Claude Code: CLAUDE.md files, skills, hooks, rules, subagents and more (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic, Trump Officials Seek Deal on Restoring Powerful Model Access (Wall Street Journal) The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible (Wired) John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic (CNBC) Anthropic Sued Over Limits on Its $200-a-Month AI Plans (Wall Street Journal) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#19
June 15 · 6 min
Fable 5 Lands and Then Gets Pulled, Plus Deeper Sub-Agent Trees
Claude Fable 5 was available for three days before a US export directive forced Anthropic to suspend access. Sub-agents can now nest five levels deep, a new safe mode flag helps isolate config problems, and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Axios all cover the export story from different angles. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:22) Under the Hood (04:25) In the News Further reading: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic News) Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Anthropic News) Classifier fallback cookbook (Anthropic Cookbooks) U.S. Bars Foreigners From Using Anthropic's Most Advanced A.I. Models (New York Times) Amazon CEO's Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models (Wall Street Journal) The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic Says Mythos can turn software patches into exploits in minutes (Axios) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#18
June 8 · 6 min
Fallback Model Chains, IPO Filing, and a Call to Pause
Claude Code now lets you configure a chain of up to three fallback models, and sensitive config writes get new prompts. In the news, Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO, called for a coordinated pause on self-improving AI, and drew pricing criticism from Microsoft. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:59) Under the Hood (04:30) In the News Further reading: A harness for every task: dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering) Lessons from building Claude Code: How we use skills (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O. (New York Times) Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk (Wall Street Journal) Microsoft's AI Chief Says Anthropic Models Are Too Expensive (Bloomberg) Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth (CNBC) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#17
June 1 · 5 min
Opus 4.8 Becomes Default, Plus Anthropic Hits $965B
Claude Opus 4.8 is now the default model with high effort enabled and a faster, cheaper fast mode. Dynamic workflows can orchestrate hundreds of background agents. And Anthropic closed a funding round that vaulted its valuation past OpenAI. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:29) Under the Hood (03:32) In the News Further reading: Introducing Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic News) Introducing dynamic workflows in Claude Code (Claude Blog) Using LLMs to secure source code (Claude Blog) Anthropic Rockets to $965 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI in AI Showdown (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.8, a New, More Powerful Model (New York Times) Apollo Shops $36 Billion Debt Deal to Buy Google Chips for Anthropic (Bloomberg) Anthropic Plans Wide Release of Mythos-Level AI Models in Weeks (Bloomberg) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#16
May 25 · 5 min
Code Review Replaces Simplify, Plus Anthropic's First Profitable Quarter
The simplify command becomes code-review with effort levels and inline PR comments. Usage now itemizes consumption by skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP servers. And Anthropic is reportedly tracking toward its first profitable quarter on roughly eleven billion dollars in Q2 revenue. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:46) Under the Hood (03:54) In the News Further reading: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (Anthropic Engineering) New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic on Pace for First Profitable Quarter as Revenue Surges (Bloomberg) SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers (Wired) Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Alum and OpenAI Co-Founder, Joins Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare (TechCrunch) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#15
May 18 · 6 min
Agent View Lands, Anthropic Hits 900 Billion
Claude Code's new agent dashboard lets you see every session in one place, and fast mode quietly upgrades to Opus 4.7. Plus, Anthropic closes a thirty billion dollar round at a nine hundred billion dollar valuation, and Microsoft reportedly pulls internal Claude Code licenses. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:51) Under the Hood (04:08) In the News Further reading: Agent view in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering) How Claude Code works in large codebases: Best practices and where to start (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation (Financial Times) Anthropic Was Behind. Now It's the AI Boom's Front-Runner. (Wall Street Journal) Anthropic Flexes Pricing Power as Its Customers Willingly Eat the Cost (The Information) Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses (The Verge) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#14
May 11 · 6 min
Worktree Base Refs, Effort-Aware Hooks, and a String of Compute Deals
Claude Code makes worktree base branches configurable and exposes effort levels to hooks and Bash commands. Plus Anthropic raises usage limits and signs compute deals with SpaceX and Akamai. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:56) Under the Hood (04:02) In the News Further reading: New in Claude Managed Agents: dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration (Anthropic Engineering) Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (Anthropic News) Anthropic Signs Computing Deal With SpaceX to Meet AI Demand (Bloomberg) Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year (New York Times) Anthropic Inks $1.8 Billion Computing Deal With Akamai (Bloomberg) Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm (New York Times) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#13
May 4 · 6 min
Project Purge, Gateway Models, and a $900B Valuation
A new project purge command wipes per-project state, the model picker now reads from your gateway, and OAuth login finally works in WSL2 and SSH. Plus Pentagon AI deals without Anthropic, Mythos scrutiny, and a $900 billion valuation in the works. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:59) Under the Hood (04:28) In the News Further reading: Lessons from building Claude Code: Prompt caching is everything (Anthropic Engineering) Onboarding Claude Code like a new developer: Lessons from 17 years of development (Anthropic Engineering) Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work (New York Times) Why Anthropic's Mythos Is Sparking Global Alarm (Bloomberg) Anthropic Weighs Funding Offers at Over $900 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg) Claude-powered AI agent's confession after deleting a firm's entire database (The Guardian) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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#12
April 27 · 5 min
Persistent Config, Vim Visual Mode, and Google's Forty Billion Dollar Commitment
Config settings now persist across restarts, vim mode picks up visual selection, and the Opus 4.7 context window math gets corrected. Plus Google commits up to forty billion dollars to Anthropic, and Mozilla used Mythos to fix 271 Firefox bugs. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:33) Under the Hood (03:43) In the News Further reading: Building agents that reach production systems with MCP (Anthropic Engineering) Built-in memory for Claude Managed Agents (Anthropic Engineering) Anthropic Probes Possible Unauthorized Access to Mythos AI Model (Wall Street Journal) Google Commits to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic (New York Times) Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox (Wired) Microsoft to integrate Anthropic's Mythos into its security development program (Reuters) Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.
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