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Matthew Burns
Matthew Burns

Matt Burns is Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group, where he oversees The New Stack, Roadmap.sh, and Towards Data Science — three platforms that collectively help millions of developers figure out what to learn next. Previously, he spent 16 years at TechCrunch, leading editorial teams and events, hosting shows and pitch-offs, and interviewing newsmakers who shaped the world through technology and politics.

STORIES BY Matthew Burns
Grok 4.6 matched Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. Downloadable models set that price.
Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.
Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights
Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.
Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month.
In 24 hours, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta turned AI into a race to the bottom on price
Losing Fable made the best case yet for AI models you can run yourself
Claude Fable cost $9 in one coding test. GPT-5.5 cost $1.50. Model triage is the new AI skill.
Federal government orders Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5, three days after launch
Ramp bets forward deployed engineers can do what off-the-shelf finance AI can’t
OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen’s code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem
Opus 4.8 Made Claude Smarter. Token Discipline Got Urgent.
JetBrains is selling independence as the rest of AI coding picks sides
Forward deployed engineer is AI’s hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire. Here’s how to become one.
Fivetran’s CPO: Closed data stacks won’t survive the agent era
How Anthropic and Elon Musk cornered Sam Altman this week
Cursor’s $60 billion bet is on the harness, not the model
The real story from OpenAI’s big week is Workspace Agents, not GPT-5.5
Google and OpenAI are making a run at Claude’s desktop moat, and Anthropic is making it easy
Karpathy says developers have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s madcap March: 14+ launches, 5 outages, and an accidental Claude Mythos leak
Cursor beats Opus at 10x less, Meta’s agent goes rogue, and the 300-page Trump America AI Act
AI layoffs are here, the MCP vs API debate, and the rise of the Mac Mini-powered Agent
OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches, AI gets its own jobs report, Claude surges after U.S. ban
Perplexity Computer wows, Karpathy kills vibe coding, and OpenAI replaces Anthropic at the Pentagon
Claude Code comes to Roadmap, OpenClaw loses its head, and AI workslop