Claude just overtook OpenAI but is a backlash brewing? Plus: Notion’s new platform + Gemini Leaks

Claude just overtook OpenAI as the most-used AI model in business - but the data comes with some serious caveats. This week: Anthropic's pricing changes are angering developers, Notion launches a full developer platform with Workers and a long-awaited Markdown API, Google brings multi-step agentic automation to Android, and why Microsoft and TikTok are quietly pulling back on some of their AI features.

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Also: Microsoft's Work Trend Index reveals what people actually use AI for at work, Airbnb's Brian Chesky says AI writes 60% of their new code, and new research suggests over-reliance on AI may be degrading engineers' ability to think independently.
Let me know what you think about this week’s developments!

🔗 Links from this week's video
Ramp AI Index (Claude overtakes OpenAI): https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026
Anthropic usage quota changes: https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388
Developer reaction (Theo): https://x.com/theo/status/2054618962395299982
Notion Developer Platform keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpE2rzKO6L0
Notion Markdown API announcement: https://x.com/NotionDevs/status/2054592878341759133
a16z - "Is Software Losing its Head?" (Seema Amble): https://x.com/seema_amble/status/2054583700302729464
TikTok scaling back AI summaries: https://www.techradar.com/computing/tiktok/completely-off-the-rails-tiktok-is-scaling-back-its-ai-summaries-feature-after-it-creates-bizarre-and-inaccurate-captions-as-if-tiktok-wasnt-bad-enough-for-misinformation-already
CLIs explained for non-engineers (Department of Product Substack) https://departmentofproduct.substack.com/p/what-is-a-command-line-interface
Microsoft cutting Copilot features: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/microsoft-cuts-copilot-bloat?rc=77sebk
Google Gemini agentic automation on Android: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-brings-agentic-ai-and-vibe-coded-widgets-to-android/
Google "Create My Widget" feature: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/googles-create-my-widget-feature-will-let-you-vibe-code-your-own-widgets/
Gemini Spark leaks: https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2054839588963696792
Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/agents-human-agency-and-the-opportunity-for-every-organization
LinkedIn layoffs: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/linkedin-is-planning-lay-off-5-staff-latest-tech-sector-cuts-source-says-2026-05-13/
Oboe (Scott Belsky's link to the cognitive expansion tool): https://x.com/scottbelsky/status/2054331724327268851

Timestamps

00:00 Claude Overtakes OpenAI
03:27 Notion Workers and Markdown API
07:32 Gemini Multi Step Automation
09:01 Work Trends and AI Coding

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