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Anthropic sues the US government. After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded Anthropic remove all usage restrictions from its defense contracts and the Trump administration labeled the company a "supply chain risk," Anthropic filed suit against 16 government agencies. Nearly 40 Google and OpenAI employees filed a brief supporting Anthropic's position. This will likely reach the Supreme Court. Source

Claude found a fifth of Firefox's annual high-severity bugs in two weeks. Anthropic partnered with Mozilla to run Claude Opus 4.6 against the Firefox codebase. It found 22 vulnerabilities (14 high-severity), scanned 6,000 C++ files, and submitted 112 reports. The first bug was found in twenty minutes. Great for defenders, but the same capabilities will be available to attackers. Source

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo. The open-source AI security platform used by 25%+ of Fortune 500 companies is being absorbed into OpenAI Frontier. They promise to keep it open source and multi-provider. Track whether that holds. Source

Platforms start labeling AI music…kind of. Apple Music announced Transparency Tags for flagging AI involvement in tracks, but they're voluntary and self-reported. Meanwhile, Deezer receives 60,000+ AI-generated tracks daily, which is 39% of all music delivered. They found 85% of AI music streams in 2025 were fraudulent. Voluntary tagging won't fix a monetization exploit. Source

Astro 6 is here. The dev server now runs your actual production runtime during development via Vite's Environment API, which is huge for Cloudflare users (Cloudflare bought Astro a couple of months ago). Plus a built-in Fonts API, stable CSP support, Live Content Collections, and an experimental Rust compiler that's already outperforming the Go original in some cases. Source

Cloudflare adds managed web crawling. A new /crawl endpoint in Browser Rendering lets you crawl entire sites with a single API call, returning HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON. Built for RAG pipelines and content monitoring. Free and paid plans are available. Source

shadcn/cli v4 redesigns the CLI to be AI-agent native. It adds skills for agent context, presets for portable design config, and support for both Radix and Base UI. Source

Also this week: Cursor Marketplace added 30+ plugins from Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, and others (Source). Figma launched an MCP server for GitHub Copilot and Slots in open beta (Source).

Claude Code shipped five releases with a new /context command and a critical memory leak fix.

Next.js 16.2.0 pushed 13 canary releases focused on Turbopack stability.

Railway added in-dashboard domain purchasing and an AI agent panel.

Dokploy introduced whitelabeling so teams can rebrand the dashboard as their own.

I finally tried Payload’s e-commerce plugin and template. Hear my unfiltered thoughts here:

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