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The Anvil
Supply chain AI, design engineering, and Pacific Northwest ground truth
A product engineer forging connections between AI, physical design, and the communities where things get built
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Anvil: autonomy is outrunning oversight on every front — coding agents running by the thousand overnight, Iran unilaterally quadrupling its claimed maritime zone, and AI-generated zero-da…
Today on The Anvil: the US-Iran ceasefire goes from strained to 'life support,' agentic coding tools learn to validate against live infrastructure, and Google catches the first AI-generated zero-day e…
Today on The Anvil: a $10B xAI–Cursor bet, a US-Iran peace proposal that died on arrival, and a sober GEP/Darden report on why most supply-chain AI pilots never scale. Plus a Hugging Face supply-chain…
Today on The Anvil: OpenAI open-sources Symphony to dispatch coding agents from issue trackers, Cursor adds async cloud agents, and two deep field reports map what multi-agent systems really need. Plu…
Today on The Anvil: Anthropic teaches agents to 'dream,' Cursor 3.3 absorbs PR review, OpenAI splits voice into composable primitives, and Dragos documents the first AI-assisted attack on critical inf…
Today on The Anvil: the Strait of Hormuz ceasefire takes live fire, ZAYA1-8B punches above its weight on AMD silicon, BASF's AlphaEvolve digital twin rewires 5,000 supply chains, and Google's DESIGN.m…
Today on The Anvil: driverless freight goes commercial on Texas highways, Claude pushes into CAD, and a one-page memo may end the Iran war — alongside Spokane's 20-year growth vote, Newport Beach's fi…
Today on The Anvil: Project Freedom pauses after Iran strikes the UAE — and new intel says Iran kept more than half its missiles despite Pentagon claims of 82% destruction. Agentic-coding infrastructu…
Today on The Anvil: the Iran ceasefire frays under Trump's 'Project Freedom' Hormuz escort mission, OpenAI and Anthropic both pivot to forward-deployed enterprise services on the same day, agentic cod…
Today on The Anvil: Trump launches 'Project Freedom' into the Strait of Hormuz with disputed warning shots overnight and the diplomatic track now effectively closed, Cursor's SDK turns AI agents into …