
Notion 3.5 Turns the Workspace Into an Agent Hub
Notion 3.5's Developer Platform adds Workers, live database sync, and first-class Claude Code and Cursor support - turning the workspace into an AI agent orchestration layer.
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Notion 3.5's Developer Platform adds Workers, live database sync, and first-class Claude Code and Cursor support - turning the workspace into an AI agent orchestration layer.

A server-side content filter in Claude Code routes requests to extra-usage billing when specific strings appear in git commit history - including OpenClaw schemas and HERMES.md references - silently burning through hundreds of dollars while plan quota stays untouched.

NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, giving 30,000 employees Claude access to build what both companies call Japan's largest AI-native engineering organization.

Anthropic's April 23 post-mortem confirms three app-layer changes degraded Claude Code since early March - all reverted in v2.1.116 by April 20.

Google Labs open-sourced DESIGN.md, a YAML-plus-markdown file that gives AI coding agents a brand's complete design system in one drop-in file - now works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.

Anthropic's new /ultrareview slash command runs a fleet of reviewer agents in a cloud sandbox, bills $5 to $20 per run as extra usage, and gives Pro/Max three free tries through May 5. Team and Enterprise pay from day one.

Anthropic walked back the April 4 block on third-party Claude harnesses, telling OpenClaw and NanoClaw that subscription-based CLI usage is permitted again for personal accounts.

Uber's CTO admits the company has exhausted its full-year AI spending allocation in four months, driven by runaway Claude Code adoption across 95% of engineers.

OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, an Atlas-based in-app browser, gpt-image-1.5 image generation, and 111 new plugins - moving the app far beyond agentic coding.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with 3x higher resolution vision, a new xhigh effort level, task budgets for cost control, /ultrareview in Claude Code, and cyber safeguards that automatically block high-risk requests.

A 755-point Hacker News thread and a 139-upvote GitHub issue document Claude Code Pro Max 5x users exhausting their quota in 1.5 hours. An independent investigation with 1,500 logged API calls reveals the math behind the drain.

The Caveman plugin for Claude Code cuts 65-87% of output tokens by stripping filler words and using terse fragment-based language. Its new Classical Chinese mode pushes compression even further.