Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. This issue covers Project Glasswing - Anthropic's quietly disclosed internal initiative that's reshaping how AI safety teams think about model deployment at scale - the axios npm supply chain compromise and what the post-mortem reveals about dependency trust assumptions most engineering teams still haven't fixed, and why the microservices architecture your org adopted three years ago might be the thing slowing you down now.
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