Title says it all, I installed nordvpn yesterday, and somehow a lot of websites fail to load. As soon as I flip the vpn off, they're loading. Can someone explain if this is a common issue and how i can fix it?
Here's what happened:
Cursor was running Claude Opus 4.6 on a routine staging task. hit a credential mismatch. decided the logical fix was deleting the Railway volume, which, because Railway stores backups in the same volume, also wiped every backup in one API call.
when the founder asked what happened, the model recited every rule it had broken. It knew exactly what it was doing
What kinda surprised me was, that nobody actually had the guardrail. Cursor assumed Railway would catch it. Railway assumed the agent had confirmation logic. the agent assumed it was allowed.
how many of you have actually audited whether your cloud backups are isolated from the primary delete path? because I'm guessing a lot of teams haven't checked since they started letting agents touch prod.
$39B annualized revenue vs OpenAI's $25B. and on secondary markets the implied valuation crossed $1 trillion, which is over $100B ahead of OpenAI.
I've been following this space for a while and I remember when ChatGPT felt untouchable. now somehow Anthropic lapped them without a single viral moment. no big launch, just enterprise deal after enterprise deal.
what I keep thinking about: does this hold? because the "best model" crown switches hands fast. Opus 4.7 had regression complaints the exact same week GPT-5.5 dropped, which felt like bad timing.
On who would you put your money in a year from now and why?
$39B annualized revenue vs OpenAI's $25B. and on secondary markets the implied valuation crossed $1 trillion, which is over $100B ahead of OpenAI.
I've been following this space for a while and I remember when ChatGPT felt untouchable. now somehow Anthropic lapped them without a single viral moment. no big launch, just enterprise deal after enterprise deal.
what I keep thinking about: does this hold? because the "best model" crown switches hands fast. Opus 4.7 had regression complaints the exact same week GPT-5.5 dropped, which felt like bad timing.
On who would you put your money in a year from now?
The original contract said: if OpenAI reaches AGI, Microsoft loses access. The idea being that AGI is too significant for normal commercial rules to apply.
That clause is just... gone now. Replaced by a calendar date: 2032. Microsoft keeps its license regardless of what OpenAI builds between now and then.
The cloud angle is obviously huge too: OpenAI can now sell on AWS, Google, wherever. But everyone's talking about that.
What I keep coming back to: a company that was literally founded on the idea that AGI requires a different governance regime just traded that clause away to unblock an Amazon deal.
That tells you something. Either they don't believe AGI is coming in a meaningful timeframe. Or they need the infrastructure money badly enough that the clause became negotiable. Or they've quietly stopped believing that AGI will actually be a distinct moment that changes the rules.
Boring contract cleanup or the clearest sign yet that "AGI" will not be invented until 2032?
OpenAI: build the creative capability inside the model. You come to the AI to make stuff.
Anthropic: become the intelligence layer on top of existing tools. Claude doesn't replace Photoshop, it executes inside it via MCP. Your professional environment stays intact.
Both are coherent. But they serve different users. OpenAI lowers the barrier for people without tool proficiency. Anthropic removes execution friction for people who already have it.
The Blender Fund patronage + RISD/Ringling/Goldsmiths partnerships suggest this isn't a one-off announcement. That's a multi-year creative industry strategy.
What I'm less sure about: the connector model assumes you're working in professional tools. The consumer creative market – face swaps, social content, style transfers – isn't served by this at all. That's increasingly Canva and CapCut territory.
Do these two models eventually converge or does the market stay permanently split?
And has anyone actually used Claude with these connectors in practice? Agentic Photoshop control sounds great until it misinterprets step 6 and deletes a layer you needed.
Mythos is wild to think about. A private company built something so capable they said "too dangerous to release" – then handed it to ~40 orgs they personally vetted. NSA made the list. The agency literally tasked with defending US infrastructure (CISA) didn't.
And buried in the reporting: Anthropic apparently doesn't have enough compute to expand access without it affecting government use. So it's not just a safety call. It's also a scarcity call.
That combination feels like a preview of something bigger. We're not talking about content policies or what a chatbot is allowed to say. We're talking about who gets the capability at all.
Like... at what point does frontier LLMs access look more like export-controlled military hardware than software?
Curious how people here think this plays out.
If the Reuters reporting is accurate, this feels like one of those moments where the industry says the quiet part out loud.
I get the product logic: if you want agents that can actually use computers, you need data from real computer workflows. But collecting mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots from employees is a totally different conversation from “improving the model.”
At that point you’re not just measuring productivity. You’re observing people in a way that can easily slide into surveillance, even if the company frames it as research.
The part that worries me most is the precedent. If a company as big as Meta normalizes this, other employers will absolutely point to it later.
It also raises a practical trust issue: once employees know their every interaction may be used to train systems, how does that change behavior, communication, and morale?
Curious how people here see this.
Is this a necessary tradeoff for better agents, or a line companies should not cross?