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Hand-over-fist model releases are the story this month, as if our heads weren’t already spinning. New tools and agents also proliferate. New apps are through the roof. Apple reported an 84% first-quarter rise in new apps on its App Store, putting it on a pace to surpass 2025’s 600K apps. The flood of apps is likely the result of other apps that make creating new apps easy. The App Store seems to have soured a bit on vibe coding apps, though, removing three of its top sellers.
Last month was also a good reminder to keep security top of mind. Tor, Signal, and npm were attacked. And did you happen to see Claude Code’s source code online? Lots of people did. That one was due to human error, not malfeasance. Mirror versions popped up on GitHub immediately, posing sticky questions about copyright. And of course, some were also full of malware.
On the opposite side of the fence, Anthropic also released a preview of Mythos, which the company claims is so good at finding high-severity vulnerabilities that it restricted access to a small corporate cohort. Meanwhile, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 to the public, which early reviews argue is nearly as effective at finding security bugs. (Many small open weight models can be too.) And Google added three agents to its Google Security Operations platform. Expect the debate on how to handle AI with frontier security capabilities to grow more heated in the coming months. And beyond AI, Cloudflare has built its own version of WordPress that solves some security issues with the older CMS, according to the company. In a nod to one of the most popular online punctuation marks (for humans and AI),
it’s called EmDash.
All this and much more in May’s Radar Trends.
