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

  1. Project Purge, Gateway Models, and a $900B Valuation

    3D AGO

    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): https://claude.com/blog/lessons-from-building-claude-code-prompt-caching-is-everything - Onboarding Claude Code like a new developer: Lessons from 17 years of development (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/onboarding-claude-code-like-a-new-developer-lessons-from-17-years-of-development - Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/pentagon-ai-companies-deals.html - Why Anthropic's Mythos Is Sparking Global Alarm (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/mythos-why-anthropic-s-ai-model-is-sparking-global-alarm - Anthropic Weighs Funding Offers at Over $900 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/anthropic-considering-funding-offers-at-over-900-billion-value - Claude-powered AI agent's confession after deleting a firm's entire database (The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    7 min
  2. Persistent Config, Vim Visual Mode, and Google's Forty Billion Dollar Commitment

    APR 27

    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): https://claude.com/blog/building-agents-that-reach-production-systems-with-mcp - Built-in memory for Claude Managed Agents (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents-memory - Anthropic Probes Possible Unauthorized Access to Mythos AI Model (Wall Street Journal): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-probes-possible-unauthorized-access-to-mythos-ai-model-3da1ee20 - Google Commits to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/technology/google-anthropic-investment-artificial-intelligence.html - Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/mozilla-used-anthropics-mythos-to-find-271-bugs-in-firefox/ - Microsoft to integrate Anthropic's Mythos into its security development program (Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-integrate-anthropics-mythos-into-its-security-development-program-2026-04-22/ Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    6 min
  3. Opus 4.7 Arrives With a New Effort Level, Native Binary, and Parallel Code Review

    APR 20

    Opus 4.7 Arrives With a New Effort Level, Native Binary, and Parallel Code Review

    Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Claude Code with a new extra-high effort level and an interactive slider for tuning the speed-intelligence tradeoff. This week also brought a native binary for faster startup, a parallel multi-agent code review command, and significant security hardening for Bash permission rules. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:05) Under the Hood (04:20) In the News Further reading: - Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-claude-opus-4-7-with-claude-code - Using Claude Code: session management and 1M context (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-session-management-and-1m-context - Introducing routines in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/introducing-routines-in-claude-code - White House and Anthropic Hold 'Productive' Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/technology/white-house-anthropic-artificial-intelligence.html - Anthropic Attracts Investor Offers at an $800 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-14/anthropic-attracts-investor-offers-at-a-800-billion-valuation - Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets (The Information): https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can-blow-ai-budgets - Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use as Demand Jumps (The Information): https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-changes-pricing-bill-firms-based-ai-use-amid-compute-crunch Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    7 min
  4. Default Effort Goes High, Critical Security Patches, and Mythos Rattles the Banks

    APR 13

    Default Effort Goes High, Critical Security Patches, and Mythos Rattles the Banks

    Claude Code's default effort level shifts from medium to high for most users, meaning better output quality at the cost of more tokens. Critical security patches fix a Bash permission bypass and command injection vulnerabilities. Plus, Mythos's cybersecurity implications draw attention from Wired, the New York Times, and federal regulators. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:49) Under the Hood (04:10) In the News Further reading: - Seeing like an agent: how we design tools in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/seeing-like-an-agent - How and when to use subagents in Claude Code (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/subagents-in-claude-code - Claude Managed Agents: get to production 10x faster (Anthropic Engineering): https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents - Anthropic's Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/anthropics-mythos-will-force-a-cybersecurity-reckoning-just-not-the-one-you-think/ - Banks Are Warned About Anthropic's New, Powerful A.I. Technology (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/business/anthropic-claude-mythos-preview-banks.html - Anthropic Agrees to Rent CoreWeave AI Capacity to Power Claude (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-10/anthropic-agrees-to-rent-coreweave-ai-capacity-to-power-claude - Anthropic's New Product Aims to Handle the Hard Part of Building AI Agents (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-launches-claude-managed-agents/ Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    7 min
  5. Bedrock Setup Wizard, Source Code Leak Fallout, and Per-Model Cost Visibility

    APR 6

    Bedrock Setup Wizard, Source Code Leak Fallout, and Per-Model Cost Visibility

    Claude Code ships an interactive Bedrock setup wizard and per-model cost breakdowns. Anthropic scrambles to contain a source code leak after hackers repackage it with malware, and the BBC reports on growing frustration with usage limits. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:53) Under the Hood (03:54) In the News Further reading: - Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent (Wall Street Journal): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7 - Security News This Week: Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-hackers-are-posting-the-claude-code-leak-with-bonus-malware/ - Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/cusor-launches-coding-agent-openai-anthropic/ - Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' (BBC News): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8l2q5yq51o - Harnessing Claude's intelligence (Claude Blog): https://claude.com/blog/harnessing-claudes-intelligence - Quantifying infrastructure noise in agentic coding evals (Anthropic Engineering): https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    6 min
  6. Auto Mode, Transcript Search, and an IPO on the Horizon

    MAR 30

    Auto Mode, Transcript Search, and an IPO on the Horizon

    Auto mode brings safer permissionless operation to Claude Code with built-in safety heuristics. This week also delivers transcript search, conditional hook filters, and a native PowerShell preview on Windows -- alongside news of a federal court ruling preserving Anthropic's government access and reports of an IPO as early as October. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:13) Under the Hood (04:15) In the News Further reading: - Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions (Anthropic Engineering): https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-auto-mode - Quantifying infrastructure noise in agentic coding evals (Anthropic Engineering): https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise - Anthropic Wins Court Order Pausing Trump Ban on AI Tool (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/anthropic-wins-court-order-blocking-trump-ban-on-use-of-ai-tool - Claude AI Maker Anthropic Considers IPO as Soon as October (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/claude-ai-maker-anthropic-said-to-weigh-ipo-as-soon-as-october - Anthropic's Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/anthropics-claude-popularity-with-paying-consumers-is-skyrocketing/ - Anthropic's Claude Code gets 'safer' auto mode (The Verge): https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/900201/anthropic-claude-code-auto-mode - PowerShell tool reference (Claude Code Docs): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#powershell-tool Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    6 min
  7. Bare Mode for Pipelines, MCP Channels, and Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Enterprise Revenue

    MAR 23

    Bare Mode for Pipelines, MCP Channels, and Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Enterprise Revenue

    Claude Code ships a new bare mode that strips it down for scripted pipelines and CI jobs. MCP channels let servers push messages into your session, VS Code gains remote control bridging, and responses now stream line by line. In the news, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in enterprise revenue and Cursor plans its own rival model. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (02:58) Under the Hood (04:03) In the News Further reading: - AI Coding Startup Cursor Plans New Model to Rival Anthropic, OpenAI (Bloomberg): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/ai-coding-startup-cursor-plans-new-model-to-rival-anthropic-openai - OpenAI to buy Python toolmaker Astral to take on Anthropic (Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-buy-python-toolmaker-astral-take-anthropic-2026-03-19/ - Why Garry Tan's Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code-setup-has-gotten-so-much-love-and-hate/ - Anthropic turns the tables on OpenAI in critical revenue category (Axios): https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/ai-enterprise-revenue-anthropic-openai - Product management on the AI exponential (Claude Blog): https://claude.com/blog/product-management-on-the-ai-exponential Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    6 min
  8. Opus 4.6 Gets One Million Tokens by Default, MCP Servers Learn to Ask Questions

    MAR 16

    Opus 4.6 Gets One Million Tokens by Default, MCP Servers Learn to Ask Questions

    Opus 4.6 now defaults to a one million token context window on Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. MCP servers can prompt you for input mid-task, and a new context diagnostics command flags what's eating your token budget. Plus, Wired profiles OpenAI's race to catch Claude Code, and Anthropic launches a dedicated code review tool. In this episode: (00:00) Introduction (00:45) Claude Code Updates (03:03) Under the Hood (04:10) In the News Further reading: - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (Claude Blog): https://claude.com/blog/1m-context-ga - Quantifying infrastructure noise in agentic coding evals (Anthropic Engineering): https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise - Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code (Wired): https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/ - Anthropic seeks appeals court stay of Pentagon supply-chain risk designation (Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropic-seeks-court-stay-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-designation-2026-03-12/ - Microsoft taps Anthropic for Copilot Cowork in push for AI agents (Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-taps-anthropic-copilot-cowork-push-ai-agents-2026-03-09/ - Anthropic launches code review tool to check flood of AI-generated code (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-launches-code-review-tool-to-check-flood-of-ai-generated-code/ Claude Notes Brief is a weekly podcast covering Claude Code updates and Anthropic news. Subscribe at claudenotes.co.

    6 min
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