Product updates and original research from the Village team on alternative data, technology adoption, and the signals investors track.https://village.dev/blog/enhttps://village.dev/blog/claude-opus-5-5-won-back-anthropics-lead-in-three-weeks/https://village.dev/blog/claude-opus-5-5-won-back-anthropics-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.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/reported-software-flaws-have-doubled-exploited-ones-havent/https://village.dev/blog/reported-software-flaws-have-doubled-exploited-ones-havent/Published software vulnerabilities rose 106% from January through September compared with a year earlier. Those with evidence of real attacks rose 34%.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/math-research-is-surging-biology-isnt/https://village.dev/blog/math-research-is-surging-biology-isnt/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.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/is-vibe-coding-a-threat-to-shopify-look-behind-the-storefront/https://village.dev/blog/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.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/openai-is-overtaking-anthropic-across-three-api-spending-trackers/https://village.dev/blog/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.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/create-interactive-charts-and-research-apps-in-village/https://village.dev/blog/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.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/the-concentration-behind-observabilitys-web-presence/https://village.dev/case-studies/the-concentration-behind-observabilitys-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.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/ai-coding-platforms-are-building-the-boring-internet/https://village.dev/case-studies/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.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://village.dev/blog/connect-village-to-your-teams-data-services/https://village.dev/blog/connect-village-to-your-teams-data-services/Bring the data you already subscribe to into your research and recurring monitoring in Village.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/explore-the-technology-behind-millions-of-websites/https://village.dev/blog/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.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/bring-village-research-into-claude-and-chatgpt-via-mcp/https://village.dev/blog/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.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/introducing-satellite-imagery-for-site-research/https://village.dev/blog/introducing-satellite-imagery-for-site-research/See how a site has changed over time and bring visual evidence into your assessment of project progress.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/start-and-continue-research-by-email/https://village.dev/blog/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.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/keep-up-with-developments-through-scheduled-research-reports/https://village.dev/blog/keep-up-with-developments-through-scheduled-research-reports/Get a regular briefing on the subjects you follow, with sources to check and open questions to investigate.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTProducthttps://village.dev/blog/daily-email-digests-for-monitor-alerts/https://village.dev/blog/daily-email-digests-for-monitor-alerts/Stay on top of developments in your research and decide what needs a closer look, with the supporting evidence at hand.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTProduct