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Big week in AI. Anthropic shipped Claude Code 2.1 with a feature that changes how we build AI agents. OpenAI launched a dedicated health product to 230 million users. And a legal AI startup just hit $8 billion valuation with $100M ARR. Here’s what matters.
Claude Code 2.1 Hooks Tutorial
Claude Code 2.1 dropped with 1,096 commits and one feature that changes everything: agent lifecycle hooks. Think of them as programmable guardrails—your agents can now automatically notify you, run safety checks, or trigger workflows at key moments.
ChatGPT Health: 230M Users and the HIPAA Gap
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health—a dedicated health assistant that 230 million people already trust with medical questions. But there’s a critical gap: it’s not HIPAA-compliant. We break down what this means for the $614B AI healthcare market.
Building MCP Servers with FastMCP
The tech giants finally agreed on something: Model Context Protocol. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Cloudflare all showed up to support it. This tutorial walks you through building your first MCP server—from zero to functional in under an hour.
Harvey AI: The $8B Legal Platform
Harvey AI just crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue with an $8 billion valuation—powered by 74,000+ attorneys across 50 of the AmLaw 100. How did a legal AI startup become one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies ever?
The AI Benchmark Obsession Problem
The AI benchmark obsession has become the industry’s most expensive distraction. While OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI race to add 0.9 percentage points to their scores, users are still waiting for AI that reliably does what they actually need.
Google’s Ironwood TPU Expansion
Google’s TPU expansion just crossed a threshold that threatens Nvidia’s AI chip dominance. With 40% growth and 3.2 million units deployed, Google is proving that custom silicon can compete with the GPU giant.
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