The Week in AI: What Actually Matters

Claude gets a CLI

Anthropic released Claude Code this week — a terminal-native coding assistant that reads your entire project, understands your architecture, and writes code that actually fits. This is not a chatbot with a code block. This is an engineer that happens to live in your terminal.

Google ships Gemini 2.5

The new Gemini model is faster, cheaper, and better at following instructions. For blog CMS builders (like us), this means the inline AI assistant just got significantly more useful without costing more per request.

The open source AI race heats up

Meta released Llama 4, and it's genuinely competitive with GPT-4o. The implications for self-hosted AI writing assistants are enormous — imagine running your own model on a $5 VPS.