why the daily stats dashboard looks wonky > small data error (it isn’t picking up indexing work - will be fixed) > bandwidth is sometimes a bottleneck during egress > we’re making a broader push upstream (targeted data scraping based on annotations and filtering. more soon)

Grass on Android is here.

i've been meaning to write more. most of my long-form thoughts have lived in DMs or X replies (until now). finally taking @gordythegiga's advice from ages ago and starting a blog.

all public data is training data

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law.

BIG AND BREAKING: @Anthropic wins its Motion for Summary Judgment on fair use grounds, Judge Alsup rules, but a trial will follow on potential damages for the use of "pirated" material from the internet Details to follow, but here's the literal bottom line:

Meet Grasshopper. The first hardware built for the Grass Network. Quantities will be limited. Join the waitlist →

SLEEPING-DISCO 9M: A large-scale pre-training dataset for generative music modeling.

huge congrats to the legends at NLH! can't believe it's been almost three years since we first pitched them the early vision for what would become Grass

veo 3 looks awesome. drives home the type of amazing things you can build with the right amount of properly curated data interleaved in multiple modalities.