Morning brief

Monday, July 13

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TL;DR Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 alleging hardware trade secret theft by 400+ former employees. Anthropic extended Fable 5 access and Claude Code’s 50% limit boost to July 19 this morning, one day after a suspected Opus 5 model (“Honeycomb EAP”) briefly appeared in Cursor.

Models & research

  • model-releases “Claude Honeycomb EAP” appeared in Cursor’s model picker on July 12 with a 1M-context window; community read is that it’s Opus 5 in early access. It was removed within hours and Anthropic hasn’t commented. TechTimes

  • model-releases Gemini 3.5 Pro is targeting a July 17 launch (July 24 fallback) per leaks: new pretraining base instead of reusing Gemini 2.5 Pro, with a jump in frontend and SVG generation quality. Not officially confirmed. TechTimes · X/@pankajkumar_dev

  • Anthropic ARR hit $69B per Yipit as of early July, up from $47B in May; daily run rate now roughly $550M/day, accelerating from $400M/day in May. NextBigFuture · X/@jukan05

People

  • sama responded to Apple’s lawsuit today: “I am not afraid of Apple, but I have tremendous respect for them. S-tier company.” Separately posted that GPT-5.6 Sol benchmarks suggest it’s “the best model in the world right now, but the most reliable way to tell is that elon is obsessed with me again.” Forbes · BusinessToday

  • simonw shipped sqlite-utils 4.1 on July 11 (bug fix follow-up to last week’s 4.0) and llm-meta-ai 0.1 on July 9 (Meta AI plugin for his LLM CLI). simonwillison.net · GitHub releases

Tools & dev

  • claude-code Anthropic extended Fable 5 access and Claude Code’s 50% weekly limit boost through July 19 (11:59 PM PT), announced this morning. Second extension in six days; Colossus 1 (300MW, 220K Nvidia GPUs via SpaceX deal) is the capacity backstop. X/@claudeai · BleepingComputer

OSS

  • destructive_command_guard (Rust) — a Claude Code / shell hook blocking dangerous commands (rm -rf, git reset --hard, etc.) before execution; SIMD-accelerated, sub-millisecond latency. Trending today with +1,290 stars, 2,000+ total. GitHub

Other

  • Apple filed suit in Northern California federal court on July 10 against OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io Products, alleging hardware trade secret theft at every level: former hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly directed candidates still at Apple to bring parts to interviews, and at least one departing employee downloaded confidential files after joining OpenAI. Stark reversal from the 2024 ChatGPT-on-iPhone partnership. CNBC · Axios

  • Meta announced a $10B, 1-gigawatt data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta on July 8 — its first in Canada and largest outside the US. The 932MW natural gas plant powering it is expected to start in H2 2030. CNBC · Bloomberg