🦔Someone is buying Japanese used books by the ton. Not novels or comics. Philosophy, history, medical law, Edo-period cultural texts. Multiple buyer accounts all ship to one logistics center in Okayama Prefecture that won't answer questions. Export records show over 50 tons, roughly 100,000 volumes, shipped to the US since last year. No buyer has been identified.
Separately, court documents confirmed Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought millions of books in the US, cut the spines off, scanned them, and shredded the originals. An internal memo said the goal was to "destructively scan all the books in the world." Similar operations have been reported across Europe.
My Take
Anthropic's US book operation came out in court filings earlier this year. Project Panama. Millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned, shredded. Their VP chose the codename so nobody outside the company would find out. That story broke and apparently the same operation just moved to Japan. Anonymous buyer accounts, a warehouse in Okayama that won't take questions, and 100,000 volumes of specialized academic texts that nobody buys to resell.
I don't know how you build a trillion-dollar industry on material you had to acquire in secret through middlemen because you knew the public would object. Authors spent years on those books and now they're fed through a scanner and thrown away so a chatbot can sound smarter. If the data was free to use, they wouldn't need codenames and anonymous warehouses. The lawsuits over who owns this material have barely begun and I think the copyright exposure across the whole AI industry is enormous. Anthropic's internal memo said the goal was every book in the world, which describes the foundation of the product.
Hedgie🤗
Password reset is completely cooked.
Along with every other modern consumer security standard.
Once you give an agent access to your inbox, they can reset any of your passwords and get unfettered access to anything.
I’m guessing this is the moment Passkeys go mainstream.
We heard you loud and clear. ChatGPT Voice can now:
- Use plugins like your email, calendar, and Slack.
- Be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna.
- Be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile, so you can create docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets or tackle complex tasks in the browser, just by talking.
Rolling out globally today in the latest version of the app.
打电话其实是个很有意思的功能,我在上半年推出了 tuwa 这个产品,但 tuwa 并不具备我们所有用户的上下文,虽然它具备 agents 通话功能,但独立产品很难非常好的实现它,因为 tuwa 不知道我们的其他信息,后来有了广泛的 tool use 连接器平台,任何产品都能链接到邮箱,再后来,我们发现在 codex 会话中使用工具链接是更高效的方式,对于普通用户来说,实现上述功能就足够满足日常个人需求了,Muse 就是定位到这部分用户的产品。