MCP Drops Sticky Sessions to Scale Like the Web
The next Model Context Protocol spec removes session IDs and the initialize handshake entirely, letting MCP servers run behind ordinary round-robin load balancers for the first time.
Articles Tagged "Anthropic"
Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
Databricks Hits $188B While Defaulting to Chinese AI for Code
Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.
Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5: Frontend Code Showdown
Kimi K3 dethroned Claude Fable 5 atop LMArena's Frontend Code Arena at a third of the price, but Fable 5 still leads on general intelligence and most agentic work.
Anthropic, Blackstone Launch $1.5B AI Services Firm
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.
Best AI for Data Analysis - July 2026
MiniMax M3 leads LiveSQLBench among general-purpose models at 40.17%, but purpose-built enterprise agent pipelines from C3 AI and Ant Group now beat every off-the-shelf LLM outright on raw SQL accuracy.
Terminal-Bench Leaderboard: Best CLI Coding Agents
Terminal-Bench 2.1 rankings for AI coding agents in real shell environments - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and open-weight challengers scored on the same 89 tasks.
GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted Files - OpenAI Called It First
Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.
Nobel Laureates Warn AI Is Moving Faster Than We Can Adapt
Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates signed a statement warning AI's economic transformation could outpace our ability to prepare - but the data behind the warning is messier than the headline.
Hugging Face CEO Says Enterprises Are Done Renting AI
Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.
OpenAI's Liability Shield Died - Illinois Passed Audits
OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.
US AI Giants Sold Services to Pentagon-Blacklisted Firms
OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.
