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Anthropic's IPO, Harness Squared, and GitHub's Star Fix — October 15, 2026
Anthropic's third quarter revenue hit sixteen point eight billion dollars, up forty five percent in a single quarter. A Google paper turned an agent's score of forty three into seventy eight just by rewriting its instructions, not its weights. One bets on spending more, the other on spending smarter. We go through the two trillion dollar IPO math, the harness trick that beat Gemini on some tasks, the database bug that recounted every star just to hand back one page of results, and why the cheapest fix of the day had no AI in it at all.
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