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The AI industry's infrastructure ambitions keep colliding with its sense of humor. A Claude Code modification called Caveman is making the rounds, stripping AI responses down to grunting, minimal language — think "Ug fix API." It's a playful jab at an industry pouring a trillion dollars into capital expenditure this year, and it raises a fair question about what we actually want from these tools when the polish gets stripped away.
Shifting to enterprise software, the Model Context Protocol team has pushed its centralised authorisation extension to stable status. The idea is straightforward: instead of employees approving access to each AI server individually, organisations connect once through their identity provider and the rest happens quietly in the background. It's the kind of unglamorous plumbing that actually determines whether AI tools get adopted at scale inside large companies.
And in hardware, Apple's rumored foldable iPhone is drawing attention not just for its form factor but for what may be a constrained launch. Reports suggest supply could fall well short of early demand, a familiar pattern for Apple debuts — but with a device this experimental, scarcity might shape perception as much as the product itself.
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