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Anthropic has launched Artifacts in Claude Code, turning session work into live, interactive web pages like PR walkthroughs, system diagrams, and dashboards that update automatically. Built from full session context including codebase and tools, they are private by default and refresh in place for teammates. As Claude noted, 'Artifacts draw on the full context of your session... They are private until you share them.' This dramatically improves collaboration for debugging, architecture, and status updates. Available in beta for Team and Enterprise.

In the MAD Podcast, Lambda CTO Stephen Balaban stresses that AI compute demand is far from peaking and we continue to underestimate scaling. GPU compute is not a commodity but a highly vertically integrated service. The main bottlenecks are land, power, and shell rather than chips. Older H100s now lease at higher rates than initially, showing lasting value. Balaban shared Lambda's journey from facial recognition to near-billion cloud business and his neural software vision: 'AI won't write software — it will become the software.'

Box CEO Aaron Levie notes that open weights models reaching frontier performance is a huge update. It ensures sovereign AI, post-training for specific workflows, cost optimization, and unlocks meaningfully different applications. A big win for the applied AI layer.

YC CEO Garry Tan strongly opposes Bernie Sanders' bill to seize 50% of AI startups crossing $200M revenue, calling it a war on building startups in America. He emphasizes AI as a liberator in the hands of those with agency, not a mechanism of control.

Anthropic team members highlight how Artifacts transform workflows: Boris Cherny uses them for visual code explanations, diagrams, and dashboards; Cat Wu for deploying shareable HTML sites and architecture comms; Thariq for team sharing. Game-changers for prototypes, analyses, and PRs.

Linear Head of Product Nan Yu described evolving from naive one-shot agent project updates to multi-turn interactive mode. Adding friction keeps users engaged, reduces slop, and lets them steer emphasis and context. A great example of friction for net benefit.

Zara Zhang created beautiful interactive HTML decks with the Frontend Slides skill, featuring clickable images, nested content, and hyperlinks. Demonstrates Claude Code's power for generating shareable presentations.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad shared several positive reactions and fun content, reflecting strong community engagement and product momentum.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted notable content generating significant engagement.

Multiple builders discussed agent workflows, Claude Code usage, SEO-optimized side projects, and frontier ideas like neural software. Swyx, Peter Yang, Dan Shipper and others actively shared tools and insights.