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Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s API Access to Claude, Alleging Violation Ahead of GPT-5 Launch

Anthropic just yanked OpenAI’s API access to Claude. Reason? Alleged violations of terms that forbid using Claude to train rival models—like GPT-5. Windsurf, an OpenAI acquisition target, got the boot earlier too. Spot the pattern: tighten access, box out competitors. System shift:APIs aren’t just ..

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Who does your assistant serve?

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 backfired: instead of excitement, users felt betrayed by a forced upgrade that stripped away the warmth and reliability they had come to rely on in GPT-4o. Many treated the model as more than a tool — a companion, therapist, or emotional support — so when its personality sh..

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Implementing MCP Servers in Python: An AI Shopping Assistant with Gradio

Gradio just leveled up. It now auto-converts plain Python functions intoMCP-compliant LLM tools, grabbing input schemas and metadata straight from docstrings. New tricks:real-time progress streaming,auto file uploads, plus tight integration withVS Code’s AI Chatfor wiring up agent workflows...

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MCP Registry with Azure API Center

Azure just droppedMCP Center, showing off howAzure API Centercan double as a private registry forModel-Centric Protocol (MCP) servers. It’s built for internal use—think secure discovery, tight OAuth 2 auth, centralized control, and AI Gateway rules baked in. Handy when teams need to corral AI tools..

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Introducing AWS Cloud Control API MCP Server: Natural Language Infrastructure Management on AWS

AWS dropped theCloud Control API MCP Server, a mouthful of a name for a tool that makes 1,200+ AWS resources manageable through a standard CRUDL API—using natural language. Think: describe what you want, and tools like Amazon Q Developer turn it into actual infra code. It doesn’t stop there. It val..

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When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?

A fresh dive into 24,910 top Hacker News posts since 2019 shows that AI chatter didn’t blow up with ChatGPT—it took off afterGPT-4 landed in early 2023. The study used OpenAI’s Batch API and a lean GPT-5-mini to crunch the numbers. Turns out,52% of the AI talk was positive, and the busiest stretch?..

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Fueling the Agentic Web Revolution with NLWeb and PostgreSQL

Microsoft just leveled upNLWeb. The open-source project now plays nice withPostgreSQLandpgvector, bringing scalable vector similarity search straight into your database. No need for a separate vector DB—run natural language interfaces right on your existing Postgres stack. System shift:This is more..

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This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT

Sapient Intelligence’s HRM AI model challenges “bigger is better” in AI with a small 27M parameter design outperforming much larger models on reasoning tasks. The architecture mimics the brain, with a slow “planner” and rapid “worker,” achieving jaw-dropping results on benchmarks...

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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS permanently nuked a 10-year customer account—data, backups, everything—after a payment verification failed. That alone broke their own 90-day retention policy. It gets messier. Looks like an internal script meant to run as a “dry run” went full send in production. Blame a Java CLI parsing edge ..

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Does platform engineering make sense for startups?

Platform engineering isn't just for the big dogs anymore. Startups are picking it up as astrategic edge, building tight, high-leverage tooling from day one. Think:templated CI/CD pipelines, plug-and-play infra modules, zero-handoff onboarding. Done right, these early bets smooth the path and keep d..

Did you know you can clap for someone’s content up to 50 times on Medium?

Well, you can.

And to protect you from carpal tunnel syndrome, I packaged that behavior into a little extension for Chrome.

It works like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3soEz-5Z4

Open up your developer tools (right-click & choose inspect)

Then, navigate to the “console”:

And if you have a bunch of caca (that’s Spanish for 💩) in your Console you can click the little 🚫 icon to clear it:

Then:

copy the JavaScript code below
paste it into the Console area
press the Return key

and spread the clap!

(Scroll up to the top of this article before you press enter if you want to see it in action)

let clapButton = document.querySelector('button[data-testid="headerClapButton"]');
if (clapButton) {
const events = ['mousedown', 'mouseup', 'click'];

async function performClap() {
for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
events.forEach(eventType => {
let event = new MouseEvent(eventType, {
'view': window,
'bubbles': true,
'cancelable': true
});
clapButton.dispatchEvent(event);
});
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10)); // Introducing a 10ms delay between claps
}
console.log("+50 Claps! Now, go join the SERP community!");
}

performClap();
} else {
console.log("Clap button not found!");
}

Want the extension?

I submitted the extension to the Chrome app store and it’s pending approval as of this writing…

But if you’re too excited to sit around when you could be clappin’ it up — you’re welcome to grab the bootleg here:

👉 https://serp.ly/@serp/serp-clapper-medium