AI Work Is Splitting in Two

Hello, and happy Sunday! This week belonged to agents. OpenAI had a “low-key” launch party for GPT-5.5 on May 5 at 5:55 p.m., a time chosen by the model itself. The following day Anthropic held its second annual Code with Claude developer conference, where the company announced three new features for its Managed Agents product, along with—more suprisingly—a partnership to use SpaceX’s Colossus supercluster.

Every was on the ground in San Francisco at Code with Claude. Taken together with the way Codex has been showing up inside Every, it became easier to see that battle lines are being drawn on two fronts: desktop apps for you and a model to collaborate with in real time as you work, and long-running agents like OpenClaw or Claude Managed Agents that teams hand off work to. It matches how agents inside Every have bifurcated into ones we delegate to and ones we collaborate with, and signal we’re seeing from frontier labs embedding employees in large enterprises.

Scroll down for a special weekend AI & I with two engineering heads at Anthropic, workflows to steal for hitting inbox zero with Codex or deciding which AI tools are worth testing, and how Every COO Brandon Gell instills curiosity in both his newborn son—and in himself. We’ve also been keeping an eye on the Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial. Discovery has surfaced plenty of gossipy, occasionally jaw-dropping text messages, but so far none of it changes much for the day-to-day user.—Kate Lee

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‘AI & I’: The secrets of Claude’s platform from the team that built it

In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget.

That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7.