• (00:47) - Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores
• (08:41) - [R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance
• (17:23) - Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
• (23:43) - Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
• (29:58) - Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
• (34:36) - Amazon outage breaks much of the internet

Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime | 2025-10-15
https://www.theverge.com/news/799938/japan-government-openai-sora

Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are | 2025-10-19
https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run

[R] Plain English outperforms JSON for LLM tool calling: +18pp accuracy, -70% variance | 2025-10-17
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1o8szk0/r_plain_english_outperforms_json_for_llm_tool/

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2025-10-15
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

Amazon outage breaks much of the internet | 2025-10-20
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/

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• Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks - https://alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tiny_recursive_models.html
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• simonw/claude-skills - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/claude-skills/
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