Altman offers two free months, steipete's claw orders an Uber

Codex dominated May 13. Sam Altman opened with a product pitch that hit 13,190 likes, Peter Steinberger had three separate demos in one day showing his OpenClaw agent doing progressively stranger things, and Anthropic quietly dropped a cybersecurity result that deserves more attention than it got. Below is everything that cleared 100 likes.

OpenAI doubles down on Codex

The day's highest-engagement post came late: Sam Altman (@sama) announced that for the next 30 days, any company wanting to switch to Codex gets two months of free usage. 1 He called it "the best AI coding product" — a direct-to-competitor pitch that pulled 13,190 likes and over 1.09M views.

Sam Altman @sama·9h

codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try. for the next 30 days, we are giving companies that want to try switching over two months of free codex usage.

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Minutes later, a separate post on model-selection anxiety: Altman said he gets anxious when he's not using the smartest-available model, but sometimes doesn't mind if a model is slow. He floated an open question — should OpenAI focus more on a price/speed tradeoff rather than a price/intelligence tradeoff? 2 That one pulled 3,985 likes and 1,548 replies, suggesting the tradeoff framing hit a nerve with users who actually pay for API calls.

OpenClaw gets its hands on Android

Peter Steinberger (@steipete) had an unusually productive day for demos. Three separate posts, each one escalating the scope of what his OpenClaw agent can do via the Peekaboo Computer Use system (peekaboo.sh).

Morning: Codex was debugging a Telegram issue and needed a new API token. Instead of stopping and asking for help, Codex used Peekaboo to open the Telegram Mac app, talked to @BotFather, and generated the token without any human input. 3 "Computer Use is amazing," Steinberger wrote. 1,684 likes.

Same hour: He credited Microsoft for helping get OpenClaw enterprise-ready — "Kudos to Microsoft, they're helping to get OpenClaw ready for enterprises." 4 1,156 likes. That signal points to a production push, not just personal demos.

Evening: The setup got more elaborate. Steinberger streamed an Android phone to his Mac in a data center using Tailscale and scrcpy (github.com/genymobile/scrcpy), then had OpenClaw control the phone through Peekaboo. The result: the agent can now order an Uber autonomously. 5 1,017 likes.

Three demos in a day, each one expanding what an AI agent can reach — from a local app to a remote phone to a ride-hailing service.

Mythos Preview cracks the unsolvable cyber range

Boris Cherny (@bcherny), Claude Code lead at Anthropic, posted a short but significant result: the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) found that Anthropic's Mythos Preview model is the first AI to solve both of their cyber ranges end-to-end. 6 One of them — the "Cooling Tower" range — had never been solved by any model before.

Cherny added: "We're getting it to defenders as fast as we responsibly can. More to come on our Glasswing work soon." 6 728 likes, 93K views. The framing — defenders, responsible deployment, forthcoming Glasswing disclosures — suggests Anthropic is positioning this as a security research tool rather than a general release. No independent corroboration from AISI itself was found at collection time.

Claude for Legal, explained from the inside

Yesterday's digest covered Anthropic's Claude for Legal repo. Today, 宝玉 (@dotey) went further with a detailed Chinese-language breakdown of how the four-layer architecture actually works. 7 366 likes, 403 bookmarks — the bookmark ratio is high, which usually means a technical reference people plan to reuse.

The four layers:

Skills — work manuals for Claude, not executable code. An NDA review skill is a prompt that tells Claude what to look for, what to flag, and in what format to respond.
Agent types — Subagents run parallel document reviews in isolated contexts (so one contract doesn't bleed into another); Scheduled agents handle recurring tasks like a renewal-watcher that runs on a timer.
MCP connectors — Ironclad (contract library), DocuSign (signed documents), iManage (document management), Everlaw, CourtListener, Trellis. The agent reads the firm's actual contracts through these connectors rather than requiring manual copy-paste.
Plugin packaging — bundles all of the above for one-click deployment.

In dotey's summary: "A skill is useless without real contracts to review — the MCP connectors are what bring the firm's actual data in." The integration layer is what separates a demo from a deployable tool.

Around the Codex orbit

OpenBridge goes MIT. 砍砍 (@Lakr233) announced that a former employer open-sourced their codebase under MIT license on GitHub as AFK-surf/OpenBridge. 8 The GitHub card describes it as "the best open source codex alternative." 190 likes, 183 bookmarks — unusually balanced engagement suggesting genuine interest rather than just celebration.

OpenCode GO: one month in. Mateusz Mirkowski (@llmdevguy), an agentic engineering builder, published a full-month review of OpenCode GO. 9 Verdict: "the best-value coding subscription I've used," with excellent model selection and a pricing structure that starts at $5 for the first month, then $10/month. The single serious drawback: the monthly usage limit is only slightly higher than the weekly limit. During a 5-hour coding session, he used 20% of his weekly quota but also burned 10% of his monthly allowance — meaning heavy users hit the ceiling fast. 106 likes.

Musk in Beijing

The most-viewed China story of the day came from 奶昔 (@realNyarime): a tweet asking whether Elon Musk would temporarily open Starlink during Trump's visit to China, since he'd need internet access to post on X and can't exactly use a VPN like a regular tourist. 10 It reached 413K views and 365 likes — the speculation caught attention because the connectivity paradox is real.

The follow-up answered it: Musk's X profile data showed VPN usage while in China. 11 As the CEO of SpaceX, he could technically use Starlink's most expensive Roaming plan instead — but he didn't. 奶昔's take: "入乡随俗" (when in Rome, do as the Romans do). 112 likes.

Earlier the same day, a meme about domestic AI API relay station (中转站, zhōngzhuǎn zhàn — proxy service operators who resell API access) operators in China also cleared the threshold at 147 likes. 12 No translation available for the image text, but the engagement pattern — 64K views, 45 replies — suggests it read as accurate satire to the target audience.

Visual culture

Sophia (@SophiaFioren) had three posts clear the threshold. The highest: a photo of the staircase at Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in Iran, dated circa 500 BCE. 13 378 likes, 58 retweets. A video of Palazzo Braschi hit exactly 100 likes. 14 A third post about the Hope Diamond — a famous deep-blue gemstone handled by Cartier in the 20th century — registered 321 likes in timeline data, though the tweet's detail endpoint returned empty at collection time, suggesting it may have been deleted shortly after. 15

Jacob Titus (@jacob__titus) posted "Resurrect the roof signs" with a photo. 16 164 likes. The caption is the argument.

Short takes

阿台 BlueBird (@QT9277) posted a video about neighbors who argue constantly, disrupting sleep — asking followers for advice on how to make them stop. 17 380 likes, 127 replies. Most-replied post of the day. Apparently a lot of people have the same problem.

砍砍 (@Lakr233) posted "哈哈哈哈哈哈" (pure laughter) with a photo. 18 124 likes, 33K views. The context is unknown and may remain that way.

18 qualifying tweets from 10 authors. Coverage spans approximately 94 accounts from @hwwaanng's following list.