124: TanStack Enters the AI Arena—Meet TanStack AI

This week TanStack joins the AI wars with the alpha release of TanStack AI: an open-source AI SDK with a unified interface across multiple providers. TanStack AI is an open-source ecosystem of libraries and standards, and it is client, server, and AI provider agnostic, to make building AI-enabled apps accessible to all.

In a surprise move, AI company Anthropic acquires JavaScript runtime Bun to accelerate its development of Claude Code. Apparently, Bun has been central to Claude Code reaching $1 billion in run-rate revenue in just six months, and Anthropic’s brought the team in house to keep the momentum going.

And it’s been another rough week for security in JavaScript. First, a new self-replicating, credential stealing malware attack, dubbed Shai-Hulud 2.0, swept the npm ecosystem and compromised 800 npm packages in the process, and then a critical security vulnerability was discovered for any React projects using React Server Components. Just remember to lock down your dependencies and install those patches ASAP, folks.

Timestamps:

• 1:22 - TanStack AI
• 9:12 - Anthropic buys Bun
• 21:03 - Shai-Hulul 2.0 on npm and an RSC vulnerability
• 30:23 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Shai-Hulud 2.0 on npm and RSC vulnerability
• Jack - TanStack AI
• TJ - Anthropic buys Bun (Bun post) (Anthropic post)

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Durrells TV series
• Jack - Essentialism book
• TJ - Dungeon Crawler Carl book series

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