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  Claude Opus 5.5 won back Anthropic’s lead in three weeks

  In September, OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra drew OpenAI level with Anthropic in AI model spending. Three weeks after launch, Claude Opus 5.5 has pushed Anthropic back to its pre-Astra share on all three public trackers we monitor.

  Research · October 15, 2026

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  Reported software flaws have doubled. Exploited ones haven’t.

  Published software vulnerabilities rose 106% from January through September compared with a year earlier. Those with evidence of real attacks rose 34%.

  Research · October 15, 2026

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  Math research is surging. Biology isn’t.

  New math papers on arXiv, the main open archive for math, physics and computer science research, are up 78% from a year ago. Biology papers show no such acceleration.

  Research · October 14, 2026

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  Is vibe coding a threat to Shopify? Look behind the storefront.

  Shopify product catalogs turned up behind sites from all five AI builders we studied. On Lovable, about one in six stores pulls its products from Shopify.

  Research · October 1, 2026

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  OpenAI is overtaking Anthropic across three API spending trackers

  OpenAI passed Anthropic in spending on OpenRouter and in Ramp’s billing sample in September, and is closing in on Vercel’s AI Gateway. Model-level data trace the gain to GPT-6 Astra.

  Research · September 22, 2026

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  Create interactive charts and research apps in Village

  Turn your data into something you can explore, then ask for changes as new questions come up.

  Product · September 13, 2026

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  The concentration behind observability’s web presence

  Village’s study of 25.7 million web hosts reveals how three shared platforms can reverse Datadog’s apparent lead over New Relic.

  Research · September 8, 2026

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  AI coding platforms are building the boring internet

  Across a crawl of 20.7 million hosts, Village identified 87,003 live sites managed by Lovable, Replit, Base44, v0, and Bolt. Most of the visible ones are real businesses or working products, yet none rank among the web's 10,000 most-visited sites.

  Research · September 3, 2026

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  Connect Village to your team's data services

  Bring the data you already subscribe to into your research and recurring monitoring in Village.

  Product · August 31, 2026

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  Explore the technology behind millions of websites

  Explore the technologies used across more than 25 million websites and subdomains, and turn questions about software adoption into research with Village.

  Product · August 20, 2026

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  Bring Village research into Claude and ChatGPT via MCP

  Put your workspace's files, data sources, and monitors to work from the conversations you already use.

  Product · August 18, 2026

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  Introducing satellite imagery for site research

  See how a site has changed over time and bring visual evidence into your assessment of project progress.

  Product · July 22, 2026

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  Start and continue research by email

  Email a question to your workspace agent, receive its reply in the thread, and send follow-up requests from your inbox.

  Product · July 16, 2026

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  Get a regular briefing on the subjects you follow, with sources to check and open questions to investigate.

  Product · July 8, 2026

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  Stay on top of developments in your research and decide what needs a closer look, with the supporting evidence at hand.

  Product · June 19, 2026