Also: Anthropic devouring IT services, Spring Boot 4, Fanta lore, and outsourcing D&D
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- The Spring Team on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4
- On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing - Yes: “This is very much a PR play by Anthropic–and it worked.” But: “Everyone who is panicking about the ramifications of this is correct about the problem, even if we can’t predict the exact timeline.” As Ben Thompson has been saying: in the boy who cried wolf story, people forget that the wolf did actually show-up.
- How Anthropic is devouring IT services - “Anthropic’s enterprise market share jumped from 24% to 40% in less than a year. That is not a trend… it is a takeover.” HfS goes over Anthropic’s strategy, the frictionless individual vs the friction-full enterprise, and the outsourcing angle.
- AI infrastructure budgets set to triple as demand soars: Deloitte - “Almost half of respondents said they have more than 30 AI pilots in the works. By 2028, Deloitte projects that nearly 70% of companies will be running that many AI proofs of concept.” // This smells like another case of the eternal early innings.
- You can now easily call LLMs from your messaging engine. Should you?
- 🤖 Agents, Consciousness, and the Future of AI - Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain at the Berkman Klein Center cover frontier model withholding, AI agent regulation, America’s inability to pause, Cowen’s Straussian politeness toward models, his bet against AI sentience, and his claim that he now writes primarily for LLMs as his audience rather than humans.
- France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux - “The State can no longer simply acknowledge its dependence; it must break free. We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny.” For a small agency: “France’s entire civil service employed 5.8 million people in 2025. According to DINUM’s LinkedIn page, it employs 201-500 people. Let’s be kind and assume the agency employs 500 people – or 0.008 percent of France’s civil service.”
- The Curious History of Coca-Cola’s “Fanta” Beverage
- Future D&D Books Will Be Outsourced to Third-Party Publishers - Expanded partnership and alliances in D&D land.
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- Claudomate.
- “It has happened more than once that a Man has told me he is training an AI model of himself to give people access to his thoughts without him having to be present. It’s only a matter of time before I tell such a Man that I already have too much access to what is going on in his brain, thank you.” Here.
- “Mr Minsky.”
- “AI-maxxing” Here.
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