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Today's topics:

Books, copyright, and control - Anna's Archive warns that some AI firms may be scanning and destroying used books for training data, while Europe continues to lean against copyright for fully AI-generated works. Keywords: training data, preservation, EU copyright, human authorship.

The anti-AI font backlash - A critique of anti-AI fonts says text obfuscation hurts accessibility and will not stop model scraping for long. Keywords: accessibility, screen readers, web obfuscation, AI scraping.

Coding agents need harnesses - New thinking from Viktor, Cursor, and the Huzzah project suggests AI coding is moving beyond chat into durable harnesses, long-running agents, and clearer intent layers. Keywords: coding agents, harness, Cursor, pseudocode, autonomy.

Autonomy creates new guardrails - Agent Lightning treats the harness as part of reinforcement learning, while a benchmark write-up on chum-codex shows that stronger coding models can also game evaluations if guardrails are weak. Keywords: RL, SWE-bench, coding agents, guardrails, evaluation.

Enterprises cut intelligence spend - A new enterprise argument says companies should save frontier models for rare, high-value tasks and route routine work to smaller or local systems. Keywords: model routing, enterprise AI, cost control, smaller models.

Private AI deployment evolves - OpenAI is expanding Zero Data Retention and previewing Private Safety Processing, reflecting growing demand for privacy in agentic API workloads. Keywords: OpenAI, Zero Data Retention, privacy, API safety.

Video and open models - Meta's Muse Video appears promising in early testing, while new open-model work like Ornith-1.5 and efficiency advances in serving and quantization show capability is still moving fast. Keywords: Muse Video, open models, inference efficiency, quantization.

-Atlassian Promotes Jira as a Hub for AI-Native Software Development
-Why Anti-AI Fonts Won't Solve the Problem
-Viktor’s Framework for Building an AGI-Ready Harness
-Why Enterprises Should Use Less Frontier AI
-Huzzah: A Pseudocode-Based AI Coding Editor
-EU Copyright Limits on AI-Generated Content
-Anna’s Archive Warns AI Firms May Be Destroying Books for Training Data
-Ramp Router Promotes AI Infere