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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

brother you’re building a crud app. you don’t need the latest model.

So far, Opus 5 feels like a strange but useful in-between of gpt-5.6-sol and Fable 5 It has a lot of Fable's taste, but also comes with gpt-5.6's thoroughness and, well, "autism" (it takes things super literally). It writes code that is slightly worse to look at than Fable, but more likely to be correct. It regularly is catching things that Fable missed. So far, feels like a good compromise compared to 5.6's messy code and Fable's habit of being too clever to be correct. I think I'm gonna like this model a lot.

We are announcing a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let us 10x our compute in the next 12 months. We reached the point where our research is worth scaling and with this partnership we will be able to. We are honored by NVIDIA’s conviction.

Hey does this mean a reset?? A banked one too maybe?

NEW: Survey reveals 30% of Americans admit to shoplifting this year, up from 24% in 2024, with most citing inflation & financial strain.

SpaceX’s massive corpus of world-class engineering data (excluding material blocked by ITAR) will be added during supplemental training of the 2T run. This will dramatically improve Grok’s engineering capabilities.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: “I think AI is going to destroy small businesses.”

T-0 Abort. SpaceX Falcon 9 B1082-23 scrubs the launch of Starlink Group 17-39 from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.