AI digest: hidden code, compute wars, and Claude's secret taxThis week: Anthropic gets caught hiding monitoring code, Meta and SpaceX race to monetise spare compute, and Claude Sonnet 5 quietly doubles your bill.2 Jul 2026ai-newsdigestanthropicmetaclaudeprivacycompute
MCP servers: giving AI models actual superpowersThe Model Context Protocol lets you plug tools into Claude like USB devices. Tested a few.16 Feb 2026mcpclaudetool-useprotocol
DeepSeek R1 vs Claude 3.5: a head-to-head on real tasksRan both models through the same set of coding and reasoning tasks. Results were closer than expected.11 Feb 2026deepseekclaudebenchmarkscomparison
Building an agent loop with Claude and tool useWired up Claude with tool calling to build a basic autonomous agent. Simpler than expected.7 Feb 2026claudeagentstool-useanthropic-api