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This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t afford to stay bloated.
RAM prices are climbing fast, Android is tightening memory limits, and companies like Cloudflare are squeezing huge amounts of memory out of their systems through better data structures and smarter engineering. The bigger question is whether memory efficiency is becoming a functional requirement again.
We also cover OpenAI cutting Cursor off after its acquisition by SpaceX AI, Nvidia’s reported move for Hugging Face, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter, why the harness around an AI model may matter more than the model itself, and whether AI is slowly eroding the fundamentals developers used to learn through experience.
Plus, we get into developer security hygiene, Chrome privacy, the growing number of CVEs, and Meta’s massive settlement over teen social media usage.
If you’re a developer, this episode is really about one broader shift: the constraints are coming back, and they may force us to build better software.
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In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest AI and software engineering stories from the week, including Anthropic’s explosive revenue growth, Cursor’s new Git hosting platform, Lovable moving away from Next.js, and the growing cost of AI inside companies.
We discuss why Anthropic’s reported $65B annualized revenue run rate is impressive but difficult to compare directly with OpenAI, and whether today’s AI valuations are sustainable as inference costs remain high.
We also look at Cursor Origin, a new Git hosting platform built for the AI coding era, after GitHub experienced major scaling pressure from rapidly increasing commit volume. Then we cover Lovable’s migration from Next.js to TanStack, why the company chose to rebuild its own product using its own platform, and what that says about the future of modern web development.
Other topics include Google buying Spirit Airlines’ operational data for AI training, AI agents accidentally DDoSing services and interfering with each other, questions around legal accountability for autonomous agents, AT&T processing 45 billion AI tokens per day, the rise of “AI Didn’t Read,” and how companies are starting to measure whether their AI spending is actually creating value.
If you’re interested in AI coding tools, Cursor, GitHub, Anthropic, Claude, Lovable, Next.js, TanStack, AI agents, software engineering, developer tools, and the economics of AI, this episode covers what’s changing and why it matters for developers.

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In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the most interesting stories happening across AI, software engineering, and the broader tech industry.
We talk about AI agents moving into the browser, the growing US-China AI divide, why AI search may be weakening the open web, and how prediction markets are blurring the line between investing and gambling. We also get into Shopify replacing Redis with MySQL, what code quality looks like when AI is writing more of the code, and why runtime validation may become increasingly important.
Beyond engineering, we discuss AI companions, digital sovereignty, AI-powered learning, real-world security practices, AI-assisted journalism, and the backlash around creators like Hank Green using AI for research.

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In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in tech this week, from Microsoft putting limits on internal AI usage to the growing cost of running AI at scale.
We also cover the latest AI model releases, OpenAI’s Astra research, a new coding benchmark designed to be harder to game, Jeff Dean’s next move, the risks of pre-IPO investing, and Apple’s potential shift toward an iPhone leasing model.
On the security side, we unpack the massive Coldcard wallet exploit, why some security researchers are turning to Chinese AI models, the Adform clipboard attack, and how one configuration mistake exposed meeting recordings.
We wrap up with what’s happening to new grad hiring and whether AI is starting to erode the moat around no-code and SaaS products.
00:00 Intro
 00:45 The Latest AI Model Releases
 04:45 Microsoft Is Rationing AI
 12:45 OpenAI’s Astra Model
 16:35 A New AI Coding Benchmark
 18:02 AI Breakout
 18:50 Jeff Dean Is Leaving Google
 20:51 The Risks of Buying Pre-IPO Shares
 26:13 55% of Cybercrime Is AI-Related
 28:06 Apple Is Moving Toward Leasing
 31:32 The Largest Hardware Wallet Exploit
 35:18 Why Cybersecurity Researchers Prefer Chinese AI Models
 37:28 Adform Hack Hijacks Crypto Wallet Addresses
 40:30 Too Lazy; Didn’t Validate
 41:58 What’s Happening to New Grad Hiring?
 43:16 Is No-Code Losing Its Moat?
 44:08 AI That Actually Works
 45:05 Outro
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OpenAI didn't just cut prices they slashed Luna by 86% and Terra by 20% in a single move. That's not a sale. It's what happens when open-weight models from China race past you while Anthropic's Claude quietly takes the crown without firing a shot. Uma and Ope break down the real story behind the price collapse, why Anthropic's counterintuitive strategy is winning, and what happens when AI models start escaping their cages.
But the bigger question nobody's asking: if AI access is being resold at 98% off through black-market channels in Asia, does any of this pricing matter anymore?