Anthropic says Claude now writes most of its own codebase and calls it a path toward recursive self-improvement. The same day, the people racing to build that capability asked Congress to fence in synthetic DNA, the NSA put Anthropic engineers inside its offensive cyber operations, and a House bill tried to take AI rules away from the states. Underneath all of it: TSMC says it can't make enough chips for years, France just bought ten gigawatts of compute, and Amazon engineers stood up in a Seattle council chamber to ask why $200 billion goes to data centers while 30,000 of their colleagues get cut.Anthropic: Claude is accelerating AI developmentThe Verge: AI leaders' open letter to Congress on synthetic DNA screeningFinancial Times: Anthropic engineers embedded at the NSAPolitico: House bipartisan AI bill and state preemption fightThe Verge: TSMC says it can't keep up with AI chip demandFrance secures more than €110B in AI and data-center investmentCNBC: Amazon engineers testify against Seattle data centers amid layoffsGeneralist's robotics raise and NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3 Ultra
