The Decoder
The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. According to two sources cited by Reuters, department officials are asking whether the purchase could give Nvidia control over a key hub for distributing AI and hurt its competitors.
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The Verge
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger.
labs.ycombinator.com
Swarms of Claude and GPT agents in Minecraft and Mindustry. Note: We're running a new Minecraft colony with 25 GPT-6.1 Terra agents.
GitHub
Tiny world model generates games and stream ac plays them all on Pico 2W - SheepSeb/tinyworldformer Using 2 small neural networks to generate and play the game at the same time on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W. The first one creates the game: given the current frame and the action, it predicts the next frame and the reward. The second one plays that game: it uses the generated frame and picks an action.
The Decoder
OpenAI is doubling usage limits across its paid plans, from Pro 100 to Pro 500. A planned cut to the Pro 200 quota was reversed after user pushback.