📰 News
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Apple’s OpenAI suit gets uglier in the details — A 41-page complaint claims ex-Apple hardware lead Tang Tan (24 years) asked candidates to bring parts, CAD, and prototypes to interviews, and that OpenAI coached leavers on dodging the “dreaded walkout.” One alleged text: “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.” Lands as OpenAI is rumored to chase hardware. → TechCrunch
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Nadella calls out distillation bans at OpenAI & Anthropic — Labs train on public data (fair use, they say) yet ban smaller models from learning off their outputs—mostly to fence out Chinese competitors. He frames a “reverse information paradox”: companies pay twice, once in cash and again in interaction “exhaust,” while value piles up at the infra layer. → The Decoder
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Anthropic localizes Claude pricing for India — Second-largest market by usage (5.8%). Pro roughly ₹2,000/mo on annual billing; Max and Team also in rupees (tax-inclusive). Still no UPI—cards and app stores only—unlike OpenAI’s earlier India rollout. Fits Bengaluru office + Infosys/TCS push. → TechCrunch
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OpenAI’s user prompting guide: lead with the result — Not API docs. Four optional blocks—goal, context, output, boundaries. Prefer a hard constraint or two over step scripts. Chat for quick work; Work (GPT-5.6 / Codex lineage) for multi-hour, multi-source deliverables. → The Decoder
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ChatGPT aims at families and households — Hiring a PM for parents, caregivers, and older adults. Users 35+ rose; ~1 in 4 U.S. parent smartphone users touched ChatGPT last quarter. Safety-by-redesign signal as the product leaves the solo-power-user phase. → TechCrunch
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Rich Sutton launches Oak Lab — Turing Award RL pioneer (with Khurram Javed, both ex–Keen Technologies). Generative models imitate but don’t truly evaluate or discover; Oak Lab wants agents that learn continuously from experience, build world models, and plan in real time. → The Decoder
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Germany’s open Soofi S (30B-class MoE) — Trained on Deutsche Telekom’s AI cloud. ~31.6B total / ~3.2B active; tops fully open peers on English, German, and code suites, with hybrid Mamba-Transformer throughput that holds at long context. → The Decoder
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“We Must Act Now” on AI’s economic shock — Stanford Digital Economy Lab; 200+ signers including Acemoglu, Stiglitz, Krugman, Bernanke, Jeff Dean, Jack Clark, and OpenAI names. Next decade could dwarf the Industrial Revolution on a compressed clock—build incentives, guardrails, and institutions now. → The Decoder
🔥 GitHub Trending
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anthropics/claude-cookbooks — Official-style notebooks and recipes for Claude APIs and tools.
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wonderwhy-er/DesktopCommanderMCP — MCP server for terminal, files, and processes—desktop hands for agents.
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Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps — Curated RAG, agent, and multi-agent app examples for idea hunting.
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dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_guard — Guardrails against
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HKUDS/Vibe-Trading — LLM-flavored trading/signal experiments—research sandbox, not a fund.
▶️ YouTube
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Minecraft Was Missing One Brilliant Idea — Two Minute Papers | Terrain Diffusion for Minecraft-style worlds, tight and visual.
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Codex is GONE — Matthew Berman | Short on a Codex shake-up; treat as a headline clip, not a deep dive.
💬 Community
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Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) — Simon Willison | Agents shouldn’t be DRIs. Accountability stays human (IBM’s old slide still lands).
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Fable gets another bump — Claude Fable 5 on paid plans extended through July 19. Uncertainty keeps nudging users toward OpenAI.
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Tau: An Educational Coding Agent — Lobsters | A coding agent built so you learn the insides, not only paste the output.
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A global workspace in language models — Anthropic research on Global Workspace–like structure inside LLMs.
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AI Surveillance and Social Progress — Bruce Schneier on AI surveillance and progress as one intertwined story.