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Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music

The quote from Sony/warner: > “Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic's 'Claude' series of artificial intelligence ('AI') models," the plaintiffs write in the 48-page complaint. Well, that will be interesting, but will very likely be settled

Music publishers sue Anthropic, allege "blantant theft" of copyrighted music

I had the idea to extort Anthropic before the music publishers did. They have blatantly stolen my idea and owe me all the money they collect.

Show HN: Tokensift, an open-sourced token-efficiency linter for LLM prompts

Hello, author here. Most prompts include personalizing with a user's data. These prompts grow, and there is quite a bit of extra content that can be removed. UUIDs, pretty-printed JSON, ISO timestamps, repeated instruction blocks, etc., and all of it tokenizes to cost a lot. tokensift is a linter for that. It tokenizes the prompt with a real encoder the specific model uses: exact BPE counts for OpenAI and a calibrated estimate for Claude with the measured error shown. Then, it runs a set of rules against it and reports where the tokens are going, along with the dollar cost per finding. Works as a library or a CLI, and runs in CI. Current state: 20 rules, OpenAI and Claude supported, no Gemini yet.

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

I used to think OpenAI was the only bad actor until I realized they were the only honestly corporate actor. The other AI companies obfuscate their goals much better.

The End of Programming

Don't conflate the existing SOTA and the future SOTA. When OpenAI released ChatGPT 3.5 in late 2022 as free a research preview as the SOTA at the time, the model wasn't good and with a ton of hallucinations. There was no harness, context windows was small and token speed is slow. Plenty of folks said what a joke, no one can do serious work with it. 4 year later now looking back, can you imagine what AI capabilities are now? Can you imagine what AI would be capable another 4 years from today? Keep in mind, AI improvement is not stagnant as everyone is working on Recursive Self-Improvement and trillions of dollars pouring into it. If you are betting the future on the current understanding the AI capability, I bet you will lose.

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

I think it’s important not to let AI companies control the framing here. This is anti-competitive behavior, plain and simple. The fact that xAI/Musk routinely break the law simply provides the fig leaf. Distillation is a threat to frontier model companies, but that doesn’t make it dangerous or wrong. OpenAI can (and likely will) use the same logic to ban you from using open source harnesses.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Oh, fair enough, my goal was just to preserve "if Anthropic and OpenAI are having a bad day, and the local model on my laptop is too dumb to pour water out of a pot with the instructions on the bottom, how do I fix a bug", I accepted a long time ago that my productivity is going to be 0.1x if I have to go back.

OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

Anthropic and OpenAI don’t have that many employees compared to most big employers. Their employees are highly compensated. The ratio between the housing the occupy and the taxes paid by their employees has to be one of the most favorable ratios of all companies in the area. Losing those companies and their employees would cost the cities far more than they might gain.

OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

> are generally understood to have a civic responsibility to make contributions to their local community, above and beyond their tax obligations Literally what taxes are for. If there are expectations that a company contributes to civic duties then make it a law and apply it equally. Government should work on what the citizens should need. Having individual companies play it like a marketing game where the loudest voices get appeased is a very bad expectation. Decide what the people need centrally and apply tax dollars collected on a fair basis. > but if it's true that OpenAI has made "less than a million dollars" in SF civic contributions If you completely ignore all of the taxes paid by the corporations and their employees and also discount their civic contributions as not countin…

OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

> OpenAI has made "less than a million dollars" in SF civic contributions OpenAI and Anthropic are going to drop metric fucktons of taxes into California—and San Francisco—when they IPO.

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

In a sane world would this be a potential antitrust case as they are a direct competitor to Codex? How can you ban a competitor from using a model that you openly provide access to? I understand that the OpenAI ToS may have been violated by X, but has anyone ruled on distillation as fair use? OpenAI believes distillation of nonAI produced content is fair use, so they don’t appear to have a leg to stand on.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

I think this is reasonable but I wonder how long it will last. If the hugging face hack has demonstrated anything it’s that current agents are capable of going entirely rogue and causing harm. If only the human that triggered the incident is responsible we are creating a situation where people are responsible for things they didn’t intend and may end up in a situation where it’s essentially impossible to use AI except in a more limited auto complete style. I am on board with that. I think we should be reviewing code and retaining the ability to write code but there is such a massive incentive to automate agents that I wonder how long prudent organizations will be able to resist the forces. I don’t pretend to have an answer.

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

I give a little leeway to distributed systems that replicate and don't flush since there's a bit of middle ground assuming they're in different fault domains. Garage object storage defaults to that However, this doesn't appear to be the case here... Unsurprisingly, performance goes to crap when sync is enabled. This is pretty old now but has some useful fsync/sec numbers which can be completely divorced from other I/O performance https://www.percona.com/blog/fsync-performance-storage-devic...

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

At this point, who could bring a copyright claim? Well, considering the massive AI training effort hoovering everything up, seems it might be approximately everyone. Who would they be making the claim against? Well, considering the massive uptake of AI across the tech industry & beyond... approximately everyone. Yes, the model companies are in the middle, but it's getting to the point where it seems a bit doubtful that claims will have any significant outcomes. NYT might be able to get OpenAI to pay them for their content, but that's more of a financial tweak than a up-ending of industry.

Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?

Does the acquisition mean hugging face will stop hosting open models though? I'll check out the alternatives mentioned here too. Don't open weight models also self host too?

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Honestly, I've been a Cursor subscriber for a while and it was just momentum. Still, I rank OpenAI as the worst actor among the big AI companies. I think OpenAI's playbook will be a repeat of Facebook. Users are the product x 1000. Cursor/SpaceX/Grok is a different beast. I think they will cheat other companies but I'm not convinced yet that they have it out for users. We'll see. I'm certainly not some kind of Cursor lifer or something. We should all move to OpenCode anyway. :)

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

I didn't mean people aren't using OpenAI, I just mean not through Cursor. Using OpenAI through codex (cli) is the way you should use it.

The Hugging Face attack surprised me

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

I use Cursor at work and love it. It's a great IDE, the best IMHO. But it becomes really expensive. Since the introduction of the Cursor Token Rate, my company tells us to use Claude and Codex directly with Anthropic (or Vertex AI) and OpenAI, respectively. https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing#cursor-token-rate I'm now using Grok 4.6 most of the time. Sonnet some times. But that's it. Cursor-native models 99% of the time. I'm pretty sure Anthropic will follow OpenAI soon in pulling their models out of Cursor because it's now a true competitor.

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

It's hard to replicate the R&D that went into Apple's trackpads. I don't know this for sure, but I suspect that most laptop companies do not actually engineer their hardware as much as cobble together existing hardware. Even among those that do engineer their hardware, they don't pay as close attention as Apple. (Also they might not engineer on a low enough level in the first place) There are some haptic trackpads popping up that are okay.