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Today's topics:

AI flagged books, librarians punished - A Greater Manchester school used an AI tool to label library books “inappropriate,” pulling titles like 1984 and triggering safeguarding fallout. Keywords: AI content screening, censorship, safeguarding, libraries, student access.

Devin and the agentic coding race - Cognition is betting big on “Devin,” an autonomous coding agent, as competition heats up with Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. Keywords: agentic coding, software engineering, enterprise adoption, productivity, jobs.

Chollet: code is not moat - François Chollet argues agentic coding won’t suddenly make SaaS cloning a winning strategy, and reiterates that scaling alone isn’t AGI. Keywords: SaaS moats, distribution, switching costs, ARC benchmark, generalization.

AI-driven rewrites and benchmarking reality - Real-world AI coding shows up in practice: a Go rewrite of JSONata using tests, and an “autoresearch” style agent chasing small inference speedups with strict quality gates. Keywords: AI refactoring, test suites, benchmarking hygiene, inference performance, Apple Silicon.

TurboQuant and the quantization wave - Google’s TurboQuant claims major KV-cache memory cuts and speedups, alongside a broader trend toward practical weight quantization for cheaper serving. Keywords: KV cache, compression, H100, long context, on-device AI.

Open models shrink pricing power - A new argument says the key open-vs-closed fight is the shrinking “monetizable spread,” while Nvidia-backed Reflection reportedly seeks a massive round to expand open availability. Keywords: open weights, pricing power, enterprise procurement, valuation, competition.

Leaks, bug bounties, AI rulebooks - Anthropic confirmed testing a stronger model after a draft leak, while OpenAI expands safety reporting via a Safety Bug Bounty and clarifies behavior goals in its Model Spec. Keywords: model leaks, CMS misconfig, AI safety, prompt injection, governance.

Public data, surveillance, geopolitics - NYC’s public hospitals plan to end Palantir use amid privacy pressure, and China is scrutinizing AI deals by restricting movement of key founders during review. Keywords: patient data, de-identification, public sector tech, regulation, geopolitics.

-School accused of using AI to purge 200 library books, prompting librarian’s resignation
-Cognition’s all-out push to build Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer
-Chollet: SaaS cloning isn’t the hard part, and ARC-AGI benchmarks expose limits of scaling
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