VeryCodedly This Week: Google Pays $920M/Month, Microsoft Wants Addictive AI, and Cloudflare Buys Vite

Hello people. On this week's episode of Things That Happened, we present:

Google To Pay SpaceX $920M/month

The figure is correct. SpaceX's IPO shows that Google will pay $920 million per month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs deployed in SpaceX's data centers. The deal runs from October 2026 through June 2029, so about 32 months. Total value is ~$30 billion.

The fee is lowered during initial setup. Also, if SpaceX fails to deliver the GPUs by September 30, 2026, Google can opt out or accept reduced capacity at a lower fee after a one-month grace period. Either party can terminate with 90 days' notice after December 31.

Google helped fund Starlink and just five years ago, was doing the supplying. How the compute tables have turned.

Anthropic: Claude Writes Most Of Its Code

They published a report on June 4 called "When AI Builds Itself", stating Claude writes over 80% of Anthropic's production code. Before Claude Code launched in February 2025, that number was ~5%. The company says "recursive self-improvement" (AI system designs and builds its own successor independently) could come sooner than most are ready for. They're not there yet, but the trend is real, so they're proposing an industry-wide "slowdown" in frontier AI development so regulation can catch up.

All figures are self-reported and unaudited, and the report came days after Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO, so the timing is sus.

Microsoft Leak: "Make people addicted"

An internal Microsoft document was obtained by 404 Media. What's inside? Their plan for the new AI agent, Scout. The document's first phase is literally "Make people addicted". The goal is to get users dependent on the AI, and it describes a three-phase approach.

Phase one: "Make people addicted." The docs note this is "already happening organically".

Plot twist: It was "co-created" with AI. At least that's what the docs say.

This is the plan for every AI company though. Wait, not just AI. Software. Only diff is Microsoft got caught pants down.

Meta Adds Face-Recognition To Smart Glasses

Wired found out that Meta has been adding facial recognition code to its Meta AI app over multiple updates since January. Internally, it's called "NameTag".

Process: When activated, the feature transforms faces captured by Meta's glasses into unique biometric signatures ("faceprints") and checks them against faceprints stored on a user's phone. So anyone in view gets identified and the info is shown to the wearer.

Very good, safe, and not dangerous at all.

The feature isn't turned on for consumers, according to the company. They've previously paid $650 million to settle a lawsuit over facial recognition, so lots more may be brewing.

Mathematicians Issue Warning

On June 1, 16 mathematicians released the 11-page "Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics". It's part warning, part manifesto. The International Mathematical Union endorsed it too.

The concern:

• AI-generated papers could overwhelm peer-review systems with low-quality work
• It could become difficult to assign proper credit for discoveries
• Researchers who choose not to use AI will be disadvantaged
• Their work could be used to train AI systems for military and surveillance purposes

OpenAI's model solving an 80-year-old math problem probably triggered this. The declaration is open for signatures worldwide so if this is your thing, give it a look.

Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero

AI agents are increasingly generating apps that start with Vite, so why not buy the company?

VoidZero is the company behind Vite (JavaScript build tool, pronounced 'veet'), Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+. Vite has over 130 million downloads weekly. The Cloudflare Vite plugin already hits ~14 million downloads per week too, so if you do some math, yes, good move for Cloudflare.

Cloudflare's making Vite the default entry point for AI-generated applications.

All projects remain open source under MIT licenses, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. Yayy.

Amazon Cancels Stargate Series

Why? Amazon's new executive team thought Martin Gero's (writer/exec producer) version "no longer aligned with Amazon's programming strategy." He tailored the show to please longtime fans and still have a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers, but Amazon thought it "would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise's already dedicated fanbase". The Amazon TV execs who were major backers of the revival have both left the company.

A Change.org petition has over 12,500 signatures, so if you like the show and don't want it axed, do something. Or else…

Red Hat npm Supply Chain Attack

A GitHub account belonging to the company was breached and used to inject malicious code into packages maintained in a Red Hat GitHub organization. They removed compromised versions from npm after disclosure, and say no customer actions are required. The investigation is ongoing, and Red Hat will update the security bulletin as new info comes in.

That's the week, you guys. See you in 7 days for another episode of Things That Happened.