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.