Anthropic cut off Claude subscription-funded usage in third-party tools¹⁵⁰ like OpenClaw. You can still use Claude models through OpenClaw, but it now requires separate pay-as-you-go billing or your own API key — your Claude Code subscription no longer works. Anthropic offered a one-time credit equal to one month’s subscription to soften the blow. The move comes as agentic usage through third-party harnesses was eating massive compute, and Anthropic is clearly steering users toward its own tools: Dispatch, scheduled tasks, projects, and computer use, which directly overlap with what OpenClaw offers.

But OpenClaw founder, Peter, is a (good-kind of) maniac who’s trying to get gpt5.4 working like opus in the tool (since OpenAI acquired him).

Unfortunately it’s just left the whole community confused as to where and when they can use their Claude Code subscriptions outside of the cc harness itself. Myself included.

There’s a new take on knowledge bases⁷⁶⁷ that I think is very interesting by Andrej Karpathy. Memory and file organisation for retrieval got a big focus with the OpenClaw hype but this approach groups things topically and then enhances with summaries, backlinks and wikis.

Related, Farza built Farzapedia⁴⁴⁸, a personal Wikipedia generated from 2,500 diary entries, notes and messages. Built for his agents to crawl whenever needed. Karpathy’s take on Farzapedia⁴⁹³

OpenAI acquired TBPN²⁴⁶ -- good pod to get a peek into the heads of the hosts¹⁰⁷. A lot of people on X are trying to sound smart with ‘this is why they acquired them’ but I’m more in the Ben Thompson camp… I don’t really know why either party needs each other here? TBPN is loved, growing, and making a small fortune with their (also loved!) ad business. Why does OpenAI need them? Other than the fact that they don’t like traditional media and could use TBPN as their main channel to people that matter.

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Headlines

• Google released Gemma 4¹⁶¹. 4 new open-weights models - two for powerful laptops and desktops (26B MoE and 31B dense), and two tiny ones for mobile phones (2B & 4B). Relevant for companies that want to fine-tune them, not for direct use.

• Cursor-3 adds a new standalone window for running agents¹²⁹. Has some neat additions for local to cloud handoff, working across different projects.

• Anthropic’s run-rate revenue hit $30B¹²², up from $9B at the end of 2025. Lenny’s podcast with Anthropic’s head of growth is worth a listen¹⁷² — they added $6B ARR in February alone.

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My feed

• Salmex I/O^250† — Won't forget you. Gets things done. Answers to no one. And is actually safe! What a local AI agent should be.*

• What could “devrel” mean¹²⁷ in a world with slot machines spitting out code and opinions?

• agent-browser by Vercel²⁰⁸ can now also work as a browser agent with a chat-bar on the side.

• Turning any documentation website into a filesystem²⁴⁹ for agents to navigate with tree, grep, cat, etc.

• The CEO of Brex claims he is running the $5B+ company³⁴¹ with OpenClaw.

• Growth ideas that helped Michelle scale Warp to 500k+ weekly active developers¹⁶¹.

• The era of web apps is over⁶⁸⁶ - Bret Taylor

• Deep Extract¹⁸³ adds an agent in the loop for extracting data out of complex documents that verifies and corrects itself.

• Samuel is building skills (like this AI SDR one¹⁹³) for the Replit Agent and sharing them on X. Cool way to market agents to non-technical users.

• Simon is the most up-to-date person on LLMs. He was on Lenny’s pod to talk about the changes in AI coding²⁵⁵ over the last few months.

• Intercom is making its agent Fin available via API⁹¹ for companies with contracts starting at $250k per year. (read more⁷⁶)

• Loophole translates your natural language moral beliefs into codified laws¹⁶⁴ and then tries to break them.

• Ex-OpenAI board member (left after the Sam Altman firing fiasco) argues for retiring the term AGI⁸⁶ in favour of specific milestones.

• You can now use your agent to apply for a job²⁰⁹ at Every.

• Autoagent²²⁴ - An agent to help optimise agents.

• Planning is dead⁶⁴⁸

• A YC partner one-shotted a tool to manage his inbox with voice¹⁴¹. Another YC company launched an AI secretary¹³⁵ that manages your email like you.

Afters

Agents are good at bash. Bash is not good for agents. We should cut our losses and restart now before it is too late.

@theo¹⁹⁵

Introducing /ui-test Give your agent a PR, and it'll test your feature in a real browser, generating an HTML report with UI fixes The planner agent generates adversarial test cases to break your app, assigns them to subagents, and evaluates the page using the @browserbase CLI

@shreypandya²⁰⁷

This was my last week at @Cloudflare. I'm incredibly grateful for the freedom I was given to explore ideas and to everyone on the Agents team for being the most cracked and amazing teammates. I'm going to be starting a new company, The Agents Company (theagents.company),

@deathbyknowledg¹⁸⁴

Announcing SubStudio! Generate subtitles for any video in seconds with AI. 100% free & open source! Powered by Whisper on @togethercompute and @FFmpeg via fluent-ffmpeg.

@nutlope¹⁶⁸

Last week @swyx nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox. Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative 💾 - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin

@zachmeyer¹⁹³

Introducing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, a new program supporting independent research on AI safety and alignment—and the next generation of talent.

@OpenAI⁹⁷

I spent a week with Donald Jewkes. He's an engineer-turned filmmaker responsible for: - projects with Cursor, Physical intelligence, and Meter - a 33 million view launch video for Waves, a startup making hidden camera glasses for streamers - the Jmail documentary, covering how a

@aadilpickle¹¹⁹

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