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Cloudflare Rebuilt Next.js for $1,100. Every Dependency You Trust Is Now Negotiable.

Cloudflare Rebuilt Next.js for $1,100. Every Dependency You Trust Is Now Negotiable.

$1,100. Yeah, that's what it cost Dane Knecht to clone Next.js. One weekend. One guy pointing Claude at the API surface. No team. No planning committee. Just a weekend and a budget that wouldn't cover two hours of most dev shops' burn rate.

The AWS deal nobody saw coming

The AWS deal nobody saw coming

April 28. Nobody's talking about it. OpenAI announces an AWS partnership. Tech world shrugs. Here's what $50 billion buys you. Amazon's February bet on OpenAI just paid off. GPT-5.5 and Codex hit Bedrock. No Azure contract required. Existing AWS clients? Live tomorrow. This

OpenAI Dumped Azure Exclusivity. The Real Winner Isn't Who You Think.

OpenAI Dumped Azure Exclusivity. The Real Winner Isn't Who You Think.

Yeah, remember when you had to beg Microsoft for access to GPT-4? Yeah. That was 2024. The deal was simple. Azure or nothing. Sign the enterprise agreement. Eat the compliance costs. Accept whatever they charged because there was no alternative. That lock-in felt permanent. It wasn't. This week,

Claude Security Is Live and It's Finding Bugs Tools Missed for Years

Claude Security Is Live and It's Finding Bugs Tools Missed for Years

You're about to ship. Your CI pipeline passed. Snyk gave you a clean bill of health. Your code still has vulnerabilities. Not theoretical ones. Real ones. The kind that get headlines. The kind Anthropic's new tool found hiding in production systems during a six-week research preview

The agent-as-a-service era just started

The agent-as-a-service era just started

Cursor dropped a TypeScript SDK on April 29. @cursor/sdk on npm. Programmatic access to their agent runtime. Not a plugin. A full platform. Here's the deal. You install it, you get a coding agent you can spin up from CI pipelines, backend services, customer-facing apps. Each one

Anthropic was too careful. Now it's worth $900 billion

Anthropic was too careful. Now it's worth $900 billion

90 days. That's how fast it went. $380B to $900B+. Bloomberg broke it April 29. Anthropic weighing a $50B round. The valuation math is absurd. February they were $380B. Now almost a trillion. If the round closes, they pass OpenAI's $852B valuation from March. Here'

The multi-cloud shift nobody's writing about

The multi-cloud shift nobody's writing about

OpenAI picked Amazon. Officially. April 28. What happened: OpenAI renegotiated its Microsoft deal. Capped the revenue share payments. Now they can serve customers through any cloud provider. Amazon dropped $50B on OpenAI in February. That investment just delivered. GPT-5.5 on Bedrock. Codex on Bedrock. No separate Azure contract needed.