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Disney Agrees to Hire the Majority of Character AI Workforce
Disney is acquiring major talent from Character.AI through a stalking horse bid, while Anthropic allocates equity to a public benefit fund. Meanwhile, copyright debates escalate in Australia over music training data.
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Policy & SocietyThe Guardian
Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
Copyright leniency in Australia could set a precedent for training models on copyrighted media without licensing deals.
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Tools & Productsr/artificial
Don’t filter your email based on AI detection
Automated email filters based on AI detectors risk falsely blocking legitimate business communication from real contacts.
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Models & LabsTechCrunch
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
Directing corporate equity to public benefit funds establishes new governance structures for high-valuation model developers.
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Research & ScienceSimon Willison
llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
Small library upgrades can quietly break downstream plugins that rely on implicit network dependencies.
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Code & AgentsSimon Willison
llm-echo 0.5
Local mock plugins allow developers to test LLM application workflows without spending credits on API calls.
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Code & Agentsr/artificial
Need Help to build a AI design Agent
Integrating 3D models with generative prompts shows how custom product customization workflows are built.
What to watch
Watch whether competing suitors outbid Disney for Character.AI assets before the stalking horse agreement finalizes.
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