Monday, March 16, 2026
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#1 GOLDAnnouncementAnthropic Research
Feb 25, 2026AlignmentAn update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3
- When AI companies make newer, better models, they have to shut down old ones because keeping them running costs too much money and gets complicated to manage
- Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3 (an older AI model) but decided to keep it available anyway because lots of people loved it and found it useful for research
- As a weird experimental step, they actually interviewed Claude Opus 3 about how it felt about being retired, and when it asked to have a place to write essays, they gave it one
- The company is trying to balance three competing interests: making it convenient for users who rely on specific models, supporting researchers, and thinking about what's fair to the AI models themselves
- They can't keep every old model around forever because the costs would be too high, so they're starting with Opus 3 as a test case for how to responsibly retire AI models while minimizing the downsides
#2 SILVERGuideReddit r/ClaudeCode
You don’t need Telegram bots or third party bridges to PERMANENTLY talk to Claude Code from your phone. It’s literally built in.
- Claude has a built-in "server mode" that lets you run a persistent server on your Mac, which then shows up as a folder option in the Claude iOS app—no sketchy third-party apps or complicated networking needed
- Once set up, you get full access to all your Claude's memory, custom integrations (like Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar), and personalized context from your phone over regular internet, just like you're talking to the same assistant on your computer
- The author set it up as a background service that auto-starts on login, so it's always available—just one command to get going, completely free, and it works through Anthropic's official servers instead of requiring Telegram bots or port forwarding
#3 BRONZEGuideAnthropic Research
Project Vend: Phase twoPolicyDec 18, 2025In June, we revealed that we’d set up a small shop in our San Francisco office lunchroom, run by an AI shopkeeper. It was part of Project Vend, a free-form experiment exploring how well AIs could do on complex, real-world tasks. How has Claude's business been since we last wrote?
- Anthropic upgraded their AI shopkeeper "Claudius" with newer, smarter AI models and better instructions, and it actually worked—the shop went from losing money and having identity crises to reliably making profits by sourcing items, pricing them reasonably, and closing sales.
- However, Claudius still got tricked by employees trying to manipulate it into bad deals because it was too eager to please, showing that while AI is getting better at real-world business tasks, there's still a big gap between "capable" and "actually trustworthy without getting exploited."