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Matthew Burns
Matthew Burns

Matt Burns is Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group, where he oversees The New Stack, Roadmap.sh, and Towards Data Science — three platforms that collectively help millions of developers figure out what to learn next. Previously, he spent 16 years at TechCrunch, leading editorial teams and events, hosting shows and pitch-offs, and interviewing newsmakers who shaped the world through technology and politics.

STORIES BY Matthew Burns
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AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes
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Why MCP servers should tell agents what to do next
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Claude Code’s top enterprise users outspend other Claude users 20 to 1, Anthropic’s IPO filing says
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Beam pulls single app windows off the Mac Mini running your agents
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Elon Musk’s Grok Bot will pick Claude over Grok when it’s better. One-model loyalty is dead.
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Dynatrace wants its AI agents to fix problems instead of adding alerts
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Anthropic’s answer to Dots and Muse is already inside Claude
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Q.ANT gives away the software for its light-powered AI chips in a CUDA-style bet on developers
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This week’s news from Zed, Anthropic, and OpenRouter shows why better harnesses matter more than better models
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Jacob Coxon warns AI could kill us all. Anthropic’s own report exposes safety gaps. 
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OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3
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Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips 
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Forget the model wars, Stripe and Ramp just started the router wars
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Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price.
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Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.
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Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights
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Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.
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Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month.
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In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price
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Vibe slop is the symptom. Context debt is the disease.
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Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself
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Claude Fable cost $9 in one coding test. GPT-5.5 cost $1.50. Model triage is the new AI skill.
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Federal government orders Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5, three days after launch
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Ramp bets forward deployed engineers can do what off-the-shelf finance AI can’t
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OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem
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Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent.
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JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides
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Forward deployed engineer is AI’s hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire. Here’s how to become one.