weekly roundup of my RSS, newsletter and social media (link in the comments):

weekly roundup of my RSS, newsletter and social media (link in the comments): • Claude Opus 5.5 + GPT-6 Sol/Luna — real mid-tier price war • Google nearing Gemini 4 release • Jev / TypeSafe “decision models” — talk of a $10B+ valuation • DHH Rails World: “pencils down” — agents as normal course • Anthropic seeks Palantir-style founder voting control ahead of IPO • Google, OpenAI, Anthropic “Standards Authority for Frontier AI” takes shape • Software firms discount AI hard as Anthropic/OpenAI eat budgets • DeepSeek ~$1B ARR; closing $7.5B round; Huawei training chips • Meta Muse >500k users week one; Amazon blocks agent shopping • OpenAI builds counters to Grok Bot; mulls Muse-class personal agent • Anthropic in talks for ~1 GW Stream Data Centers lease • Fal / Fireworks inference boom: Fal talks ~$15–20B valuation • Claude Marketplace: 2,000+ plugins, unified Anthropic billing • Google AX: Kubernetes rebuilt for stateful AI agents • OpenAI & Anthropic nearly sealed mutual model stress-test deal • https://t.co/OLD11Ddp0m open-sources ZCode after silent workspace upload scandal • OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government site, PM says • Aura Frames: Rails + Postgres to #1 app-store / Christmas peak • Hiten Shah: Claude Code users approve ~93% of permission prompts • Salesforce research: a stronger model can make a tuned agent worse • Ryan Singer: X-ray / 7±2 slices of agent-built software • Thariq: kill plan mode for Shift+Tab effort levels? • Wade Foster / Pip White: Opus 5.5 on AutomationBench • OpenRouter: Grok 4.7 live for builders • Ben Holmes: multi-model “software factories” • David Cramer: stuffing agent control flow into markdown skills will age poorly • Gergely Orosz: Workspace Gemini chrome vs Apple fixing the basics