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Napster Meet Claude

+ free agents, Lovable unicorns, and Microsoft buys poop
Adam Wildheart
AI book pirates (Anthropic)
AI book pirates (Anthropic)

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Good morning 👋 Worried quantum computers might steal your $$ and leak embarrassing texts? You can relax. A top scientist says quantum code breaking is “bollocks” – today’s quantum machines can barely do basic math. That pricey quantum-proof encryption (PQC) everyone’s pushing is junk too. At this rate, Qday may be like Y2K, just without the fireworks and awkward midnight hugs.

🏴‍☠️ Anthropic got caught pirating books. They now face a class-action lawsuit for downloading 7 million stolen books to train Claude, “Napster-style.” Meanwhile a Senate Judiciary panel heard testimony that internal docs prove AI leaders knowingly stole millions of works to avoid paying creators. It’s being called the largest intellectual property theft in US history. Grab some popcorn because AI’s copyright drama is just heating up.

🏁 OpenAI just dropped Agents for Pro, and it’s honestly wild. Type a quick prompt and they jump online, log into sites with your credentials, create slick PowerPoints, fill spreadsheets, and tackle multiple tasks that used to need adult supervision. We tested it. It’s kinda like Deep Research + Operator. It’s painfully slow, crashes a bunch, and is a major security risk… but still beats paying interns.

🦄 Lovable went from zero to unicorn in just 8 months. The AI vibe coding platform hit a massive $1.8 billion valuation after landing a cool $200 million Series A. Lovable lets anyone whip up apps and websites using nothing but plain English. It’s already pulled in 180K+ users, plus some pretty big enterprise names. Not bad for less than a year, huh? Soon, the best coders might be English majors.

💩 Can poop stop global warming? Microsoft is spending millions on carbon removal credits from a startup injecting human and farm waste deep underground. The tech locks methane and CO2 away for good, offsetting ballooning emissions from Microsoft’s power-hungry AI data centers. Let’s all chip in to save the planet by sending Microsoft bags of sh*t.

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