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AI Fundamentals

A Logbook Is Not a Memory: The Uncomfortable Truth Beneath the AI 'Second Brain'

Agent-memory systems combine persistent context, files and retrieval. Storing information does not guarantee retrieving or learning from it: the useful question is what mechanism decides what enters context, when, and with which permissions.

14 Jul. 2026

AI Fundamentals

Loop Engineering: The Signal, the Smoke, and the New Craft of Saying When to Stop

Boris Cherny says loops now prompt Claude for him. Primary sources show what really changes: decisions inside the cycle, measurable criteria, resistant graders, and memory evaluated against a stateless baseline.

14 Jul. 2026

Current Affairs

NYT v. OpenAI: how to read an evidence accusation without mistaking it for a ruling

Publishers accuse OpenAI of concealing searches and losing logs. A guide to separating allegations, prior rulings and sanctions that have only been requested.

5 min 13 Jul. 2026

Current Affairs

Apple sues OpenAI: the partnership that brought ChatGPT to the iPhone ends up in court

Apple accuses OpenAI, its hardware chief Tang Tan, engineer Chang Liu and io Products of misappropriating iPhone trade secrets to accelerate its first consumer device. The federal lawsuit, filed in San Jose, brings six claims and seeks injunctions and damages; OpenAI replies that it has "no interest in other companies' trade secrets." The case will test where the line sits between hiring talent and taking confidential know-how in the middle of the AI hardware race.

5 min 12 Jul. 2026

Current Affairs

Apple v. OpenAI: how to read an injunction request the judge has not decided

Apple asked to stop secret use, preserve evidence and return materials, but a complaint is not an order. A guide to the docket and the unresolved standard.

5 min 12 Jul. 2026

Regulatory Framework

California’s SB 53 reads as a matrix of obligations

The law separates frontier developers, large developers, public frameworks, model reports, incidents, and whistleblowers. Identifying subject, threshold, deadline, exception, and penalty prevents its scope from expanding or shrinking.

6 min 29 Sep. 2025

Regulatory Framework

Anthropic Wins: Training AI on Books Is Fair Use, but Piracy Isn't

Judge William Alsup hands down the first substantive ruling on fair use in AI training: training on books is legal, but Anthropic will face trial for using pirated copies.

5 min 24 Jun. 2025

Current Affairs

Disney and Universal sue Midjourney over copyright

Disney and Universal accuse Midjourney of using and distributing images of copyrighted characters such as Darth Vader, Shrek and Homer Simpson. The lawsuit marks Hollywood’s most direct clash yet with image generators.

5 min 11 Jun. 2025

Current Affairs

Musk sues OpenAI, accuses Altman of betraying its mission

Musk sued OpenAI, Altman and Brockman, alleging they abandoned a founding agreement. Separating allegations, documents, legal claims and requested remedies keeps a complaint from being mistaken for a judgment.

5 min 1 Mar. 2024

Regulatory Framework

Taylor Swift Deepfakes Raise Pressure to Tackle Sexual AI Abuse

The spread of fake sexual images of Taylor Swift on X has reignited debate over legal gaps surrounding nonconsensual deepfakes. The case has prompted the White House and US Congress to call for action.

4 min 31 Jan. 2024

Current Affairs

Deloitte deploys PairD as an internal assistant

Deloitte described paird, its internal generative ai platform. The source bounds the event: internal access and a list of possible tasks do not measure productivity, accuracy or safety with confidential information. The story teaches how to evaluate an internal assistant through task, authorized corpus, review, error and operating outcome.

3 min 9 Jan. 2024

Regulatory Framework

UK Supreme Court limits who can be named as an inventor

The uk supreme court decided stephen thaler's appeal over naming dabus as inventor. The source bounds the event: the decision interpreted UK law and the asserted entitlement; it did not decide whether a machine can devise or set a worldwide rule. The story teaches how to read the decided question, jurisdiction, reasoning, remedy and issues expressly left open.

4 min 5 Jan. 2024