LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
QUICK HITS
- OpenAI GPT-6 Boosts COBOL, Fortran Coding with 87% Accuracy on MultiLangBench — Future Tools (Matt Wolfe)
- Perplexity Open-Sources Two Decision Models: 4B and 27B Params at Under 2¢/Million Tokens — Future Tools (Matt Wolfe)
- OpenAI's "Aurora" image models spotted in API and Arena tests, hinting at GPT-Image-3 — Future Tools (Matt Wolfe)
- How I built my ‘everything’ app — Ben's Bites
- Mercury 3 🤖, MiniMax Flash 3.1 ⚡, Exa 3 🔎 — TLDR AI
- My obituary for programming — Simon Willison
THE MAIN STORY
Is it legal to train AI on your work? An appeals court answered for the first time — with an asterisk
The fact — The Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence can't claim fair use for training on Westlaw headnotes. It's the first US appellate ruling on AI training and fair use.
The details — On Tuesday, Sept. 29, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research startup — infringed Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and could not claim fair use for using material derived from them to train a competing AI search tool.
Why it matters — It also explicitly isn't about generative AI. read it
THE TRICK
An editor that cuts your pauses and your "um..." by itself — and runs in the browser
Step-by-step
- Open diffusion.studio in your browser. Nothing to install, no account needed to try the editor.
- Drag the file in. The video does not upload to any server — processing runs on your machine, via WebCodecs and WebGPU.
- Run the automatic cut. It transcribes and flags silence, stuttering and filler words.
TESTED
Doesn't check out · "Sora 2 free and unlimited with VPN": the app was shut down in April and the tutorial keeps circulating
Videos and blogs still teach you how to get an invite code and turn on a VPN to use Sora 2 without limits. OpenAI's Help Center says the app went offline on April 26, 2026.
IN THE LOOP
- Bilawal Sidhu: This 4D Tech Feels Like a Geospatial Memory Palace of the TED conference
- The Rundown AI: Anthropic co-founder says the singularity is underway
- Matt Wolfe (YouTube): My favorite new image editing tool
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Intro to Machine Learning + Intro to Deep Learning — Kaggle (Google)
Train, validate and improve a model; build neural nets with Keras. 3h and 4h, beginner.