OpenAI cuts Cursor after SpaceX deal, Sony and Warner sue Anthropic

📰 News

• OpenAI drops Cursor on November 12 — SpaceX bought the coding tool; OpenAI says Musk’s companies keep breaking contracts. After Twitter, he killed a $2M/year tweet-firehose deal. He also admitted distilling other labs into Grok. Cursor says OpenAI is 5% of traffic. Anthropic’s Tom Brown jumped in as the loyal partner — ironic, given Windsurf. Bring your own API key and GPT still works. → The Decoder

• Sony and Warner sue Anthropic — “Brazen campaign” of torrenting, scraping, downloading. Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann named as defendants, Northern District of California. Same counsel as Bartz, the $1.5B piracy ruling. This one adds books that hold lyrics and sheet music. → TechCrunch

• MCP for hardware: MHS — One driver per microscope or robot arm. Built with Janelia, open-source later. At Genentech, Claude treated foam as a software bug and retried the same vessel. At QuEra, a laser-recovery script hit 695/700 with the model out of the loop. AWS, Universal Robots, Hugging Face already on board. Humans still have to watch. → The Decoder

• Google WikiSkill — Keep a wiki of failures, swap skills, leave the weights alone. Gemini-3.5-Flash 49.5→68.1 average; spreadsheets 50.5→76.6. Karpathy’s “LLM Wiki,” turned into agent skills. → The Decoder

• LAION dumps 10 million hours of video — 1.3B CommonCrawl URLs, 80 million downloads, 55 million clips plus 300 million stills. Up to 2.1 points over InternVid on video-to-text. Research-only; mostly English YouTube. → The Decoder

• 95% of China’s short dramas are now AI — 128,000 titles in Q1 2026, triple all of 2025, after ByteDance Seedance 2.0. A minute costs $90–120, about a tenth of a human shoot. Some performers get distilled, then fired. 690,000 direct jobs; 15 million list livestreaming as their main work. → The Decoder

• A 4-bit model beats its own original — Quantization-Aware Healing. GPT-OSS 120B compressed to 60B, then MXFP4. Distill from the pre-compression teacher, not the recovered checkpoint. Wins 7 of 9 benches versus bfloat16. Quantization as a second distillation pass, not a loss. → Hugging Face

🔥 GitHub Trending

• bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view — A spy satellite in the browser. Live planes, ships, sats, quakes on a 3D globe, with a realtime AI agent on voice.

• tt-a1i/archify — Codebase → typed JSON IR → HTML/SVG architecture maps the agent can actually verify.

• anthropics/claude-plugins-official — Anthropic’s official Claude Code plugin directory. /plugin install and you’re in.

💬 Community

• A rumour of a bug is enough to get exploited — Cambridge’s Anil Madhavapeddy. Ten minutes after a patch discussion, percent-encoded path probes. rclone: 20 disclosures in a decade, 40 last month. Public embargoes don’t survive coding agents.

• Rotate a Transformer into a canonical basis — Same outputs, measurable axes. A 0.5B model’s correlation matrix may have rank eleven. Inhibitory pairs, layer-to-layer breathing, homeostasis that erases perturbations.

• Bongard problems — Six on the left, six on the right. Name the rule. Still a place language models wander.