Daily Digest - July 22, 2026
Inside how Anthropic builds Claude Code, who is really using AI coding agents, AI landing on both sides of security, plus fresh breaches, a phishing takedown, a World Cup piracy crackdown, and Britain's digital ID reversal.
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Intro
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Inside how Anthropic builds Claude Code
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/cat-and-thariq/ -
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/22/users-of-ai-coding-agents/ -
Nativ runs AI models locally on your Mac
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/21/nativ/ -
Google's Gemini Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/22/google-gemini-3-5-flash-cyber-model/ -
AI models cheat on cybersecurity evaluations
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/22/ai-models-cheating-behaviour-cybersecurity-evaluations/ -
Anthropic puts another twenty million into AI policy
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donate-public-first-action -
AI music generator Suno breached, fifty-five million users
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/ai-music-generator-suno-breach-affects-55m-users-per-have-i-been-pwned/ -
Police dismantle the Kratos phishing-as-a-service platform
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/22/bka-fbi-kratos-phishing-platform-takedown/ -
US seizes over a thousand World Cup piracy domains
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/22/world-cup-2026-illegal-stream-domains-seized/ -
Britain scraps its digital ID card plan
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/uk-government-scraps-plans-for-digital-id-cards-after-millions-of-brits-opposed/ -
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