Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
We've reached an agreement to acquire Astral.
After we close, OpenAI plans for @astral_sh to join our Codex team, with a continued focus on building great tools and advancing the shared mission of making developers more productive.
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Congrats on Fortnite's return to Android and Google Play!
When we met in Shanghai I raised a point that I believe is still the missing piece: Google's Developer Distribution Agreement still prohibits any app on the Play Store from facilitating distribution outside of Google Play. Word for word.
This means no game, no social app, no ad network on Google Play can direct users to the Epic Games Store — or any alternative store. The settlement opened the door for third-party stores to exist. But existence without discoverability is a death sentence. Apple's approach is arguably worse — their "alternative marketplace" framework creates an even more isolated island, where third-party stores exist in name but are walled off from any meaningful user flow.
I know this firsthand. TapTap — the Android game store I run — became one of the largest independent game platforms in China precisely because the Chinese Android ecosystem allows cross-promotion. Developers promote their "official packages" across every channel — social apps, ad networks, gaming communities — and those links lead to TapTap downloads. This cross-promotion is the oxygen that let TapTap grow.
If China's Android market had the same restrictions Google and Apple enforce, TapTap would not exist. Period.
And here's what China's open ecosystem proves: an open market isn't the security nightmare these platforms claim. Major developers, ad networks, and platforms are fully capable of handling review and quality control. Openness didn't break the market — it made it competitive.
Great progress. But until apps can freely point users to alternative stores — on both Android and iOS — the fight for truly open mobile platforms isn't over.
Yesterday we tightened our safeguards against spoofing the Claude Code harness after accounts were banned for triggering abuse filters from third-party harnesses using Claude subscriptions.
In the 1950s, a young Syrian Muslim named Abdulfattah Jandali came to America to study political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He fell in love with a woman whose father disapproved. In 1955, their newborn son was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. They named him Steve.
➡️ The Proclamation continues full restrictions & entry limitations of nationals from the original 12 high-risk countries established under Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, & Yemen.
It adds full restrictions & entry limitations on 5 additional countries based on recent analysis: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, & Syria.
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