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Today in brief.
Thinking Machines drops its first open model
Mira Murati's lab shipped Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights model, its first public release and a direct shot at one-size-fits-all frontier AI.
🤖 AI
OpenAI's first hardware is a $230 keyboard
OpenAI's long-teased hardware turned out to be a light-up macro keyboard for Codex, and the internet is not impressed.
🔧 Tech
Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI crowd to fork off
Linus Torvalds put his foot down: stop attacking people for using AI, and Linux is not an anti-AI 'social warrior' project.
🏛️ Policy
New York bans new AI data centers
New York became the first U.S. state to impose an AI data-center ban - the power-and-water backlash is now hitting law.
🤖 AI
Suno scraped YouTube, Genius and Deezer
A hack exposed that AI music generator Suno pulled millions of songs from YouTube, Genius and Deezer to train on - the receipts are out.
🤖 AI
Anthropic's next act: implementation, not models
Anthropic and Blackstone are betting the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation and services, not the models themselves.
🔧 Tech
Codex and Claude both shipped in-app browsers
OpenAI and Anthropic made the same move the same day - a real in-app browser with tabs inside Codex and Claude, turning the coding agent into an operating system.
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