Grant Harvey

Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 on Monday: a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, runs 76% cheaper, ships Day-0 on Cloudflare, and coordinates 300 AI agents across 4,000 steps. Here's what it actually unlocks, and whether you should care.

Every day, The Neuron's newsletter teaches 700,000+ readers one new AI skill they can use immediately. This collection is all the ones you requested.

3,143 Neuron readers told us their #1 AI tool. Claude took the crown at nearly 2x ChatGPT's vote. But the WHY is where it gets interesting; 200+ of you wrote in to explain your choice and mention 40+ other tools. Plus: wild use cases (grocery-haul recipe videos, Tesla-to-laptop Grok, and "Jason" the Copilot named after Jason Momoa).

Amazon doubled its Anthropic bet with up to $25 billion more, the NSA quietly started using Anthropic's most dangerous internal model despite a Pentagon ban, Google DeepMind spun up a "Strike Team" to catch Claude Code, OpenAI shipped screen-reading memory for Codex, and a Lovable breach exposed every project built before November 2025.

Anthropic shipped Claude Design (the Figma competitor everyone saw coming), three senior OpenAI execs announced they're leaving pre-IPO, Claude Opus 4.7 wrote a working Chrome exploit for $2,283, and a fake Claude site started installing malware while everyone was watching the product launches.

We went live within hours of Anthropic shipping Opus 4.7 and stress-tested everything from its new 3.75-megapixel vision to Claude Code's sub-agent behavior. Here's what the benchmarks didn't tell you.

"Codex for (almost) anything" is OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's Cowork. But is it enough? Well, it's more than enough. Is it TOO enough??

Anthropic's new flagship is a real upgrade on coding and vision, but the same "sticker price" as Opus 4.6 hides a tokenizer change and an always-on thinking mode that could quietly eat your weekly rate limits. Here's what to actually watch for.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 and OpenAI countered with a full Codex overhaul, Factory raised $150M from Khosla for autonomous coding agents, OpenAI launched its first life-sciences model, Canva rebranded as "an AI platform with design tools," and Anthropic's CPO quit Figma's board as the AI labs squeeze the SaaS layer from both sides.