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The Information

Why Claude Code's Dominance Is Fading

2026-08-05 · 6 company · 8 thematic
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laura bratton

Writes the Applied AI newsletter for The Information, reporting on enterprise AI adoption, coding agents, and frontier model competition.

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“Cursor also I think is worth noting here because they recently launched a model router and they published a blog showing that, you know, if you use multiple different models including their own composer model, you can save on costs with co…”
—laura bratton
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