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July 18 · Today
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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the c

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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

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Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the c

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Quoting Kimi K3

<blockquote cite="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342#48936515"><p>Is there something I can actually help you with today?</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342#48936515">Kimi K3</a>, after refusing to leak its system prompt</p> <p>T

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LLM cliché highlighter

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlighter">LLM cliché highlighter</a></p> <p>I got frustrated reading <em>yet another</em> article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable

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Spot birds not golf

<p>Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use:</p> <p>Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!</p> <p>Google

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Firefox in WebAssembly

<p><strong><a href="https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/">Firefox in WebAssembly</a></strong></p> This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser.</p> <p>Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in

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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

<p>Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI <a href="https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3">announced Kimi K3</a> this morning, describing it as their "most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters". It's currently available via their website and API, but an open weight release is promised "by July 27, 202

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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

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