AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians

  • (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

Musicians miss out as Belgian retailers turn to AI-generated music in stores | 2025-10-19
 https://www.brusselstimes.com/1798519/musicians-miss-out-as-belgian-retailers-turn-to-ai-generated-music-in-stores
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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Murilo Kuniyoshi Suzart Cunha
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AWS Went Down, Sora Under Fire (Again!?), Claude 4.5, Music Without Musicians
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