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Anthropic has made a quiet but pointed acquisition, snapping up Stainless, the developer tools startup whose client list read like a who's who of AI — OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare among them. Stainless will wind down its hosted products as part of the deal, meaning Anthropic effectively pulled a key piece of infrastructure out from under its rivals.
That brings us to the legal front, where Elon Musk has suffered yet another courtroom defeat. A judge ruled against him in his suit against OpenAI, where he alleged Sam Altman and Greg Brockman broke a founding promise to keep the company nonprofit. It is the latest in a string of losses for Musk, and raises real questions about whether these legal challenges are strategy or spectacle.
And stepping away from the cloud entirely, Oppo has released X-OmniClaw, an open-source AI phone agent that sees, hears, and acts using your device's own camera, screen, and microphone — no server connection required. It is a meaningful proof of concept that capable AI assistants do not have to live somewhere else to work.
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