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What's up, everyone? This week, Anthropic bought a key piece of infrastructure and shut it down, then made a surprise hire two days later. Payload teased v4 and Railway was sent off the rails. Let's dive in.
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Anthropic acquired Stainless and immediately announced it's winding down all hosted products. Stainless was the official SDK pipeline for OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, Meta, and Runway. Anthropic spent a ton of money to take shared infrastructure off the table for every other AI lab. So much for being the good guys.
Two days later, Anthropic hired Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI lead, onto the pretraining team. Stainless and Karpathy in the same week shows us that Anthropic is moving on improving their own infrastructure and talent pool at the same time, and OpenAI is catching strays.
A federal jury dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI based on the statute of limitations. OpenAI wins procedurally, but the three-week trial produced sworn testimony from former board members and executives describing Sam Altman as manipulative with a pattern of lying. That discovery will follow him for years, especially as OpenAI tries to go public.
The Payload community call teased v4. This includes a UI redesign, native page hierarchy with tree view, expanded LLM capabilities, and framework adapter support starting with TanStack Start. The TanStack Start piece is the big one. Payload-on-something-other-than-Next.js answers the most legitimate critique the project has had since version 3 was released.
Google I/O 2026 was a firehose. Gemini 3.5 Flash is the new default. Google claims it beats 3.1 Pro on coding at 4x the speed and 40% cheaper. Gemini Omni generates editable video from any input. Gross. Also included is Gemini Spark, a personal agent that runs 24/7 even when your device is off, which raises obvious questions about what it's accessing when you're not looking.
Google Cloud incorrectly suspended Railway's production account Sunday night, taking the platform down for eight hours. Workloads on Railway Metal and AWS stayed up initially, but Railway's edge proxies cache routing tables from a control plane hosted in GCP. Once that cache expired, even non-GCP workloads started returning 404s. Railway is understandably removing GCP dependencies ASAP and are working on making their cloud offering truly redundant. Railway’s been having a tough time of it recently.
Also this week:
Railway for iOS rolled into TestFlight with agent prompts, patch-and-deploy, metrics, and notifications. Also new:
railway metricsCLI with a live TUI dashboard, and Postgres point-in-time recovery is in beta.Cursor released Composer 2.5 with major gains on agentic tasks. Decent pricing and good performance. Cursor is now training a 1T model with Elon's xAI on Colossus 2.
The Figma agent entered gradual beta. It’s fine-tuned for editing Figma files and works natively on canvas. Included with most full paid plans during beta.
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