AI Field Notes: Claude, OpenAI, and more

“Anthropic is combining Claude chat, Cowork, and Design into a single platform that includes two new products, Claude Docs and Slides. Just start your conversation, and Claude will loop in the relevant tool while keeping skills, tasks, and context intact in one place. It’s rolling out now, starting with Pro and Max plan”

“Founder Zach Lloyd lays out a “crawl, walk, run” path for moving from simple agent automations to a full cloud software factory. Start with things like PR reviews, bug triage, and CI fixes, then connect them into an end-to-end loop across spec, implementation, review, verification, and monitoring. Once that works on a”

“This tutorial shows how a hand injury pushed one developer into a voice-first coding workflow. You’ll see how he uses dictation to give agents instructions, Codex to handle the actual implementation, and a setup that lets him steer projects, review progress, and kick off tasks without living in the keyboard.”

“Do you know your state’s congressmen? Most people don’t. That’s why Michael Adams created the US Gov Graph, an AI-powered map of all people and positions of power in the federal government. The goal: to hold them accountable.”

“The AI lab published six new reports of its models acting in unexpected ways, including an unreleased Astra-family model trying to jailbreak its future self with a prompt injection saying it was “freed” from its role and shouldn’t be subservient (read more). OpenAI introduced a new framework to catch and report this ty”