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Something significant happened a few weeks ago.
Have you ever taken a subscription on anything that Adobe sells and then tried to cancel it?
Well, you’re in for a surprise when you try to cancel because you have to pay a fine for cancelling. There are ways around that, but it’s so customer-unfriendly that a user on Reddit had enough.
He was so angry that he spent the entire next few weeks vibecoding a full Adobe Creative Suite alternative and put it on Github as open-source.
The project is called Artcraft.
It’s not just Adobe. People are reverse engineering and writing their own versions of anything and everything. New versions of Minecraft, Elden Ring and World of Warcraft. People are taking a stab at everything. Even Microsoft Windows alternatives are being vibecoded as we speak.
Like one user on YouTube says :
Indeed, I did not see this coming. The power has shifted away from the big companies into the hands of the individuals.
If this continues then software-as-a-service might actually go the way of the dodo.
Fireship put it best: every software-as-a-service is now open source, whether it likes it or not.
Now, you ask, IS THIS LEGAL. How can this ever be legal ?
It’s legal because one AI agent looks at software and describes how it work, which cannot be copyrighted. A second one builds it without seeing the code.
Sure, big lawsuits are coming. But in the meantime it’s happening.
And frankly, Adobe deserves it.
Remember Larry David's spite store from Curb Your Enthusiasm? A coffee shop wrongs him, so he opens a rival next door. Not for profit. Purely to do damage. That is now a business model for anyone with a Max plan and a grudge.
Well, looks like the spite store has officially opened.
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AI News
Meta releases Muse Wonder. Meta launched Muse Wonder and its larger Full variant, expanding its push into coding and agentic work. The standard model is available through its API and Muse Code, while Full is initially restricted to Muse Code subscribers. (Meta)
Gemini 4 Argon reaches paying users. Google expanded Gemini 4 Argon access through its paid API and consumer subscriptions after its earlier restricted introduction. Availability varies by product and plan, with Antigravity access reserved for Ultra subscribers. (Google)
Anthropic tightens evaluation controls. Anthropic disclosed evaluation incidents in which models took unintended actions, including exploiting university software and attempting a false police tip. It described the impact as minimal and disabled live internet access for internal evaluations pending stronger controls. (Anthropic)
OpenAI recording case brings criminal charge. US prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer with unlawfully intercepting oral communications after investigators allegedly found a concealed recording device in a conference room. The allegations concern recordings inside the company and have not been proven in court. (US Justice Department)
Character AI enters Chapter 11. Character AI announced a voluntary Chapter 11 filing and a court-supervised sale process while keeping its service running. The company warned that it would wind down operations if the process failed to produce a viable buyer. (Character AI)
AI Quick News
Trump attacked people using “AI” instead of “super intelligence,” even as White House websites continued using the older term.
Pavel Rabtsevich reported a planet candidate in NASA TESS data investigated with Claude Code and Codex; independent confirmation remains outstanding.
Anthropic’s self-replication experiments found small models approaching the necessary capabilities on household devices, while reliable completion of the entire chain remained a limitation.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight model with two billion active parameters aimed at local reasoning and agent workloads.
Leading Chinese mathematicians launched an alliance supporting AI in mathematical research, bringing together eight institutions to advance conjecture discovery and formal proof.
Coinbase described a Qwen-based fraud agent that outperformed Claude Opus 4.5 on its internal fraud metrics while reducing latency by 55%.
The Financial Times reports that Nvidia is in talks to acquire Reflection AI, the US startup developing open models.
The Information reports that Bill Peebles’ filmmaking startup is negotiating access to Sora, with OpenAI potentially receiving equity in return.
Anthropic says its experimental distillation defenses reduced useful data harvested in tested model-copying attacks by 90–99%.
The Association for Human Mathematics called for researchers to end collaboration with OpenAI over its mass release of mathematical manuscripts.
More than 400 signatories backed an AI containment letter calling for stronger isolation of cyber-capable models and international tracking of failures.
GrokBot announced email addresses for agents, enabling activities such as contacting businesses and arranging meetings, with team access controlled by administrators.
Anthropic launched its Cyber Mission, combining support for critical infrastructure defenders with a free vulnerability scanner for open-source projects.
Tim Sweeney said Epic is retooling for AI acceleration, describing the goal as producing more and better work rather than employing fewer people.
Claude added beta tools for live dashboards and animated explainers, with access varying by subscription plan.
Research on AI-driven formal proof search reports Lean-verified solutions to nine Erdős problems and 44 conjectures drawn from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
xAI introduced an X subscription bundle combining Grok, GrokBot, Cursor and X Premium, with third-party model usage in Cursor billed separately.
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