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The rebel alliance

AI Weekly Round-Up #39: How Coinbase manages AI spend, Claude comes to Slack and file systems as "primitives"

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Khe Hy
Jun 28, 2026
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Hope you’re all having a great weekend. There was SO much happening this week and hopefully we get access to Fable 5 and ChatGPT 5.6 this coming week.

If you’re new here, every week I curate the top AI reads/tweets/pods/tutorials so that you don’t have to.

Let’s jump in.

If you only read 3 things

  • How to keep AI spending low while usage explodes — Coinbase CEO’s viral post on how they’re managing token spend.

  • File systems are the new primitive for AI agents — I’ve been building a few context management systems using folders and agentic file search.

  • The rebel alliance — Companies are starting to push back on vendor lock-in from Anthropic and OpenAI. Here’s what the new stack might look like.

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