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The Anvil
Supply chain AI, design engineering, and Pacific Northwest ground truth
A product engineer forging connections between AI, physical design, and the communities where things get built
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Anvil: Google's I/O reframes the developer stack around agents, Cursor answers with a cheaper Composer 2.5 (and a SpaceXAI training deal), and Iran's war hits day 82 with the Senate movin…
Today on The Anvil: a postponed strike on Iran that nobody is calling peace, Cursor undercutting frontier coding models by 10x, and the slow industrialization of supply-chain AI agents. Plus the usual…
Today on The Anvil: consolidation under pressure. OpenAI collapses ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into a single agentic platform; Anthropic is briefing G20 finance ministers on a cybersecurity model that…
Today on The Anvil: the AI coding tool market consolidates into desktop apps the same week Microsoft pulls Claude Code from its own engineers, Figure's humanoid sorts 100K packages in a second consecu…
Today on The Anvil: the AI coding-tool market is consolidating fast and getting noticeably more expensive — xAI enters at $300/month, Anthropic walks back its agentic-credit cut, and GitHub ships a de…
Today on The Anvil: consolidation and contradiction. Microsoft is forcing its engineers off Claude Code despite their preference for it, CENTCOM's 90%-degraded claim about Iran collides with intellige…
Today on The Anvil: agent protocols quietly standardizing across IDEs, supply-chain AI moving from pilot decks to production picks-per-hour, and Iran trading missile posture for managed Hormuz transit…
Today on The Anvil: autonomy is outrunning oversight on every front — coding agents running by the thousand overnight, Iran unilaterally quadrupling its claimed maritime zone, and AI-generated zero-da…
Today on The Anvil: the US-Iran ceasefire goes from strained to 'life support,' agentic coding tools learn to validate against live infrastructure, and Google catches the first AI-generated zero-day e…
Today on The Anvil: a $10B xAI–Cursor bet, a US-Iran peace proposal that died on arrival, and a sober GEP/Darden report on why most supply-chain AI pilots never scale. Plus a Hugging Face supply-chain…