<p><strong>TLDR:</strong> Anthropic is splitting programmatic Claude usage into a separate monthly credit pool starting June 15, and developers are not happy about it. The effective cuts range from 5x to 25x for power users running AFK workflows, and many are already looking at Codex as a cheaper alternative. Meanwhile, Cloudflare announced it’s cutting roughly 1,100 employees — about 20% of its workforce — and said directly that AI made those roles unnecessary, even as it reported record quarterly revenue of $639.8M. LangChain shipped a wave of new products at its Interrupt conference, including SmithDB and LangSmith Engine.</p>
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<h2>Anthropic’s programmatic usage cuts</h2>
<p>Starting June 15, Anthropic is separating programmatic usage — Claude Code, the Agent SDK, <code>claude -p</code>, GitHub Actions — into its own dedicated monthly credit pool. The amounts: $20/month on Pro, $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x. Previously, programmatic calls drew from the same pool as regular chat usage, with Anthropic quietly subsidizing the difference. That’s ending. For developers running AFK workflows, the math is brutal — the 20x plan previously covered what would cost up to $5,000/month in API credits. The framing from Anthropic positions this as a new benefit, but most developers reading the numbers see a significant cut. Several are already migrating AFK workloads to Codex, where subscription credits apply. To soften the blow, Anthropic also announced Claude Code weekly limits are increasing 50% through July 13.</p>
<h2>Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs, credits AI directly</h2>
<p>Cloudflare announced it’s cutting roughly 1,100 employees — about 20% of its workforce — and CEO Matthew Prince didn’t use the usual corporate hedging. He said AI usage inside Cloudflare surged 600% in three months, employees are now 2x to 100x more productive depending on role, and 100% of AI-generated code is reviewed by autonomous agents rather than humans. When productivity jumps that much, you need fewer support staff around the core team. That’s the argument. What makes this one different from Meta or Microsoft layoffs is the directness — Prince isn’t saying the company is reallocating budget toward AI investment, he’s saying the jobs became unnecessary. The company reported record revenue of $639.8M, up 34% year-over-year. The stock fell 24%.</p>
<h2>LangChain Interrupt: SmithDB and LangSmith Engine</h2>
<p>LangChain shipped several products at its Interrupt conference today. SmithDB is a database purpose-built for agent trace data, built on Apache DataFusion, addressing the reality that agent observability workloads have outgrown general-purpose databases. LangSmith Engine is an agent that sits on top of your traces, clusters failures, and suggests targeted fixes — moving observability from “read the traces” to “the traces read themselves.” LangChain also announced Managed Deep Agents and LangSmith Sandboxes going GA, the latter offering secure sandboxed environments for agent code execution integrated with the Deep Agent framework.</p>
<h2>Anthropic in talks to raise at $900B valuation</h2>
<p>Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30B at a pre-money valuation above $900B, which would surpass OpenAI’s $852B valuation from March. No term sheet has been signed but a close could come as early as end of May. This follows the $30B Series G in February at a $380B post-money valuation. CEO Dario Amodei cited a $30B annualized revenue run-rate, up from $14B in mid-February. Over 1,000 customers are spending more than $1M annually on Claude. A public listing has been discussed for as early as October.</p>
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<h2>Also notable</h2>
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<li><strong>Cline SDK open-sourced:</strong> Cline released an open-source agent runtime now powering its CLI, VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, and Kanban board — the CLI benchmarks at 74.2% on Terminal Bench 2.0 with claude-opus-4.7, ahead of Claude Code’s 69.4%.</li>
<li><strong>Notion developer platform:</strong> Notion launched Workers (sandboxed cloud code execution), webhooks, database sync, and native support for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex connecting to workspaces — Workers are free until August, then restricted to Business and Enterprise plans.</li>
<li><strong>Google confirmed first AI-written zero-day in the wild:</strong> Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed a threat actor used AI to develop a working zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web admin tool, with telltale signs including educational docstrings and a hallucinated CVSS rating.</li>
<li><strong>Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business:</strong> The new product integrates Claude into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, shipping with 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows covering finance, operations, sales, and HR.</li>
<li><strong>Fractile raises $220M:</strong> London-based inference chip startup Fractile closed a round led by Accel, claiming its in-memory compute architecture can run frontier models 25x faster at one-tenth the cost of current GPU setups — first commercial chip expected in 2027, Anthropic reportedly in early discussions as a customer.</li>
<li><strong>Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in business customer share:</strong> Ramp’s AI Index shows 34.4% of its 50,000+ client businesses now pay for Anthropic versus 32.3% for OpenAI, with Anthropic’s share growing 26% over the past 12 months.</li>
<li><strong>VS Code Agents Window preview:</strong> Microsoft previewed a new VS Code interface for managing multiple parallel agent sessions across projects and machines, with isolated work trees, inline diff feedback, and GitHub MCP integration.</li>
<li><strong>Uber’s internal agent platform generates 11% of all PRs:</strong> A live conversation with a senior Uber engineer is scheduled for tomorrow to discuss how the platform was built and how engineering workflows have changed.</li>
<li><strong>Airbnb: 60% of new code written by AI:</strong> CEO Brian Chesky confirmed the figure, noting small teams can now do work that previously required 20 engineers, while human engineers remain essential for review and architectural decisions.</li>
<li><strong>Claude Platform on AWS goes GA:</strong> Anthropic launched a generally available AWS deployment option using IAM for auth and CloudTrail for audit logging — unlike Claude on Bedrock, Anthropic retains operational control rather than embedding into AWS infrastructure.</li>
<li><strong>Microsoft MDASH finds 16 Windows flaws:</strong> Microsoft’s AI-driven agentic security system discovered 16 previously unknown Windows vulnerabilities including four critical RCEs, all patched in the May 2026 Patch Tuesday release.</li>
<li><strong>CVE-2026-44843 in langchain-core:</strong> A critical vulnerability allows a single crafted chat message to exfiltrate the server’s LangSmith API key via a serialized HubRunnable constructor — patched in langchain-core 1.3.3 and 0.3.85, rotate credentials if you haven’t upgraded.</li>
<li><strong>Mythos and Japanese megabanks:</strong> MUFG, Mizuho, and SMFG are set to gain access to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos model within two weeks through US Treasury coordination, making them the first Japanese institutions in the Project Glasswing rollout.</li>
<li><strong>GitHub Copilot agent tasks REST API:</strong> GitHub released a public preview allowing Copilot Business and Enterprise users to programmatically trigger cloud agent tasks that make code changes and open pull requests.</li>
<li><strong>Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7:</strong> Now available in research preview on the API and in Claude Code.</li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare Browser Run rebuilt on Containers:</strong> The migration delivers 4x higher concurrency limits (up to 120 simultaneous browsers) and 50%+ faster Quick Action response times with no required changes for existing customers.</li>
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Anthropic is splitting programmatic Claude usage (Claude Code, Agent SDK, GitHub Actions) into a separate monthly credit pool starting June 15, with caps of $20–$200/month depending on plan tier — a significant cut for power users running AFK workflows who previously had far more headroom. Many developers are eyeing Codex as a cheaper alternative. Cloudflare announced layoffs of ~1,100 employees (20% of staff), with CEO Matthew Prince explicitly attributing the cuts to AI-driven productivity gains of 2x–100x per role, even as the company posted record revenue of $639.8M. LangChain launched SmithDB (a DataFusion-based database for agent trace data) and LangSmith Engine (an AI agent that analyzes traces and suggests fixes) at its Interrupt conference. Additional notable items include Anthropic in talks to raise at a $900B valuation, Cline open-sourcing its agent runtime, Google confirming the first AI-written zero-day exploit in the wild, Airbnb reporting 60% of new code is AI-written, and a critical CVE in langchain-core allowing API key exfiltration.

Anthropic slashes programmatic usage, Cloudflare cuts 20% of staff citing AI