The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response

Also: Anthropic’s speed run to break devs’ goodwill, big price increases from GitHub Copilot, Mitchell Hashimoto on the “building block economy,” and more

Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more

Also: insider details on how and why Anthropic moved off Git, a new trend of AI-assisted coding rounds inside of Big Tech, and more

Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more

Poor availability has dogged GitHub for months and raises questions about its status and focus. Plus, Microsoft promises Windows will not be “Microslop”, a massive LLM

Also: a look into rising tech job losses, self-reporting 100% AI usage at big companies, vibe coding & agentic engineering merging, and more