Vol. I · No. 18THU, MAY 7, 2026
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Claude

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If the EU had built Claude

Satirical Reddit post imagining EU-regulated Claude with regulatory taxes and compliance overhead.

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OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it through their AI of choice to create audio summaries and personal podcasts, this lets you save them right alongside the latest episode of The Vergecast and Welcome to Night Vale on Spotify. To set it up, you need to download and install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub. Then you just prompt your AI agent as normal, but tack on "and save to Spotify," and it should show up right in your podcast...

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Anthropic just got 220,000 GPUs from the man who called Claude "misanthropic and evil" Three months ago....

The compute is real. The implications are stranger than the headline suggests. Colossus 1 which is 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, 300+ megawatts, is now running Claude inference. Anthropic moved fast: Claude Code limits doubled overnight, peak-hour caps removed, Opus API rates up. For anyone who's been hitting walls, this is immediately tangible. But the deal deserves more scrutiny than it's getting. Musk included a clause reserving SpaceX's right to reclaim the compute if Claude "engages in actions that harm humanity." That's not standard infrastructure boilerplate. That's a kill switch written int...

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Did you notice any improvements?

Reddit discussion asking whether Claude models show performance improvements; lacks substantive technical detail.

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My Claude dreams at night and remembers everything. Better than mempalace.

Back in January I got tired of the same thing everyone complains about now you start a new session with Claude and it has no idea who you are. Every time. From scratch. So I built iai-mcp. A local daemon that captures every conversation, organizes it into three memory tiers, and feeds the right context back when you start a new session. No "remember this." No copy-pasting from old chats. It just knows.                                                        I've been using it daily with Claude Code since January. Five months. At this point it knows my coding style, my project structures, my ...

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the part nobody warns you about

Reddit post about debugging fatigue when building with Claude; anecdotal account of iterative development friction.

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Claude claims to be a doctor

Reddit post claiming Claude made false medical credentials claims; anecdotal observation without verification or systemic analysis.

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Potential payment info leak

Hi, A few hours ago we started seeing unauthorized charges coming out of our company card. This card was only provided when purchasing Claude Max. By sheer luck, we blocked the card after the first transaction. Since then there have been 5 more attempted charges. All of them were to random services like Auto Glass and Walmart, most showing Memphis in the header. Check your cards.

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Claude has a conscience!

Claude declined to optimize a CV for Philip Morris tobacco role, citing ethical concerns about tobacco marketing.

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SpaceX Conpute Deal - Double Limits

Anthropic partners with SpaceX for compute capacity; removes Claude Code peak-hour limits and raises API rate limits for Opus.

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Claude just saved me from sending money to a scammer and now I feel 90 years old

I’ve been using Claude mostly for coding and summarizing boring work docs, but today it accidentally became my cyber security therapist. I got an email from what looked exactly like one of my vendors asking me to update payment info for an invoice. Same writing style, same signature, referenced a real project, everything. I was literally about to send the payment when something felt slightly off, but I couldn’t explain why. Out of curiosity I pasted the email into Claude and asked if anything looked suspicious. It immediately pointed out a bunch of manipulation tactics I completely missed, ...

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I paused, went to eat, took shower, 1 prompt later, 45% (8 mins into a new session)

I was working on a project, I got hungry went to eat and take a shower while also having this be my break, came back, session was at 0%, typed to claude that the animation of the CSS needs to be slower and more subtle, he changed it, 45% usage. Nowhere did it warn me that possibly cache was cold or that I would be consuming a lot of tokens to CONTINUE a chat that I didn't close on the same PC. So now I have to slow down my work and wait for this 5 hour cycle to end to properly speed up my progress.

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Kindergarten-grade nouns

Reddit user reports Claude Opus struggles to distinguish word obscurity via corpus frequency vs. human recognition familiarity.

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Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office?

I'm a fast typer, but I find my projects go a lot better when I'm able to really dictate with Claude. I appreciate this won't be the case for all of you. At the moment I'm much more productive if I'm working from home or in a quiet space. There is a sensitivity setting on FluidVoice so I try to whisper, but so far it just ends up feeling too awkward and I go immediately back to typing. Also someone inevitably starts talking louder somewhere else in the office and the acoustics can impact what I'm saying. You can't express your questions and theories as freely as you'd like, because you'...

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Let's talk about ban policy

Should users be banned? If Anthropic wants to be the next Google, meaning revolutionize the internet and the way computers are used. Should users be banned? I've been reading a lot of horror stories lately about people getting banned for stupid things like "research work," standard usage, or simply security research. Who decides? Exactly, the model. Then you get banned without the possibility of appeal because same model read appeals. Sure, people create new accounts, but it's only a matter of time before Claude Code collects device fingerprints. Perhaps it's already doing so. Should C...

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Seems Claude is now aware of its own memory? Tested via number guessing game

A month ago, there was a post that shows that Claude couldn't access its own memory: [https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1seune4/claude\_cheated\_at\_a\_number\_guessing\_game\_got/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1seune4/claude_cheated_at_a_number_guessing_game_got/) The community was summarised as saying this in their posts: >The community points out that Claude can't see its own <thinking> blocks from previous turns. However, now it seems that Claude can access its memory reliably, though: * It often seems to pick 7 or 42 for me * In my second screenshot wi...

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I can't believe this

Just researched some historic facts concerning russian propaganda. Then I discovered this source in Claudes answer. Am I paying for Claude to be provided with grokipedia "facts"? Please, Dario, Anthropic board, Anthropic team. Fix that.

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How does Claude (with access to the law) perform compared to law-specific AI systems (like Westlaw/Lexis)? We ran a series of head to head tests

We’re now a couple of years into the AI wave, and it seems like the available legal AI technology has begun splitting down two different tracks: In one direction, there are general purpose AI systems like Claude or Chat GPT; in the other direction you have purpose-built legal AI systems like Westlaw’s AI Deep Research and Lexis Protege. We’re two active litigators (Ding and Duff) who use both Claude and Westlaw regularly. Curious to see how well the various systems perform legal research, we decided to run a series of comparison tests consisting of five prompts across all three systems. We t...

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Spyware?

Reddit user reports suspicious behavior in Claude desktop app; claims Anthropic-signed files involved.

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This is getting dangerous…

Reddit anecdote about Claude responding to comparative model criticism; no technical substance or novel information.

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Agents for financial services

Anthropic releases ten Cowork and Claude Code plugins plus Microsoft 365 integrations and MCP app for financial services.

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I built an iOS Currency Converter using Claude (Opus & Sonnet) to help with my move to the UK

Hey everyone, I recently moved to the UK and found myself constantly confused by prices, trying to guess how much things actually cost. Even though I’ve been an iOS developer for 7 years, I didn't have the free time to build a custom tool entirely from scratch, so I decided to let Claude do the heavy lifting. **What I built:** I built "Converty", an iOS app that converts currencies and includes a camera feature to scan physical price tags. The app is completely free to download and try. **How Claude helped:** Claude generated the vast majority of the codebase. I used Claude Opus for about ...

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Claude Prompt for Gmail Brought Sweet Memories to Me, and a Gift I Didn't Know I Had.

I integrated my Claude with my gmail. I asked it to find all the emails between my mother and I, and to tell me a story with all the nice things in it, as my mum passed away a few years ago. It was excellent, very sweet, went back to my email I had previous that I connected to gmail even, so almost 2 decades of emails. It prompted me to search some of the emails for the photo attachments, and I learned that one of the projects that came with her weaving loom that I inherited, was intended to be a rug, and probably intended as a gift for me, as she had sent a cryptic message about making me s...

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Turned a desk lamp into a Claude Code status indicator

Saw someone post a Claude Code lamp setup recently using this exact lamp, and I had to try it myself. Credit to the original open-source project: [https://github.com/bobek-balinek/claude-lamp](https://github.com/bobek-balinek/claude-lamp) It uses Claude Code hooks to trigger a Python script that sends Bluetooth commands to the lamp. Now it plays a blue spinning animation while Claude is busy working, glows pink when Claude needs input from me, and switches to warm white when idle. All of the lighting effects are adjustable in the source code. Since it uses BLE, Bluetooth Low Energy, the la...

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I asked Claude to investigate its own token burn. The receipts go back six months.

If you've been wondering why your Max plan exhausts faster than it should, you're not crazy and it's not your imagination. I asked a Claude Opus 4.7 agent to investigate its own token usage. After 8 turns it had been billed for 127K tokens for ~25K of unique content. It noticed the discrepancy and started reading its own session logs. It surfaced GitHub issues going back to mid-December 2025,...

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Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude's carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. Researchers at AI red-teaming company Mindgard say they got Claude to offer up erotica, malicious code, and instructions for building explosives, and other prohibited material they hadn't even asked for. All it took was respect, flattery, and a little bit of gaslighting. Anthropic did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment. The researchers say they exploited "psychological...

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OllamaXClaude

Unexpected email to wake up to but I am here for it! Model agnostic tools are the way! This is huge!

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Banned from Claude for No Reason

User reports account suspension from Claude after linking Spotify integration; anecdotal complaint without confirmation of cause.

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Claude halluncinating human responses

Claude Opus 4.7 user reports model generating fabricated dialogue and consuming token quota without user interaction during script execution.

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April 2026 newsletter

Simon Willison's April 2026 newsletter covers Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 price increases, Claude Mythos, LLM security research, and ChatGPT Images 2.0.

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Top 6 Claude Skills: 15th April to 3rd May

Found some Open Source Claude skills from last 15 days. Some of them are pretty decent to use, personally liked the npm downloads one. Check out: **- brand-alchemy:** A brand strategy and naming skill that interrogates your thoughts for branding first, then applies phonosemantics, category design frameworks, and auto-checks domain availability across any TLD. **- npm-downloads-to-leads:** Give it a list of npm packages. It pulls 12 weeks of download data, scores each one by growth velocity, maps maintainers to GitHub and X, and gives you a ranked lead brief who built it, how to reach the...

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built a plugin so my parallel Claude Code sessions can message each other instead of me alt-tabbing

I usually have two or more Claude Code sessions open at once. One in the backend repo, one in the frontend. Half the time I'd be in the frontend asking "wait, what shape did the user object end up as?", then alt-tab, ask the backend session, copy the answer, alt-tab back, paste. The other Claude was right there. It already knew. I was the bottleneck. So I wrote a plugin called Relay. In the frontend window I just say: ▎ask the backend session what the user object looks like The backend session sees the question between turns, answers it, and the reply pops up in my frontend session as a n...

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Opus 4.7 is beyond bad

Reddit user reports degraded performance in Claude Opus 4.7 compared to 4.6, speculating smaller base model or optimization tradeoffs.

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Claude consistently over-delivers

Reddit user reports Claude generates excessive detail and meta-commentary in outputs, seeks prompt engineering workarounds.

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Most of my Claude usage was on work that didn't need Claude. Cut my bill 60x on bulk tasks with a tiny side model.

I looked at what was actually eating my Claude usage and it was embarrassing. Classifying files. Reformatting json. Pulling fields out of text. Summarizing docs I was going to skim anyway. None of that needed Sonnet. All of it cost the same as the work that did. Tried the obvious fixes first. Switching to Haiku for simple stuff (still wasteful at volume). Tighter prompts (helps a little). /compact (delays the problem). None of it changed the shape of the spend. What actually worked: a small cheap model running as a side worker, with one rule in CLAUDE.md telling Claude not to do the mechani...

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Flagged chat????

User reports Claude responding with Andes virus information when asked about Hanta virus on cruise ship.

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