Late Friday night news from OpenAI. They are winding down their partnership with Cursor:

This decision was incredibly tough, as we care deeply about our models being broadly available for developers. We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts.

Sort of makes sense with all the bad blood between OpenAI and Elon Musk, but the announcement is confusing. This is going to burn some goodwill at a time when things are going well with developers.

9to5Mac has a summary of yet another response from OpenAI. OpenAI doesn’t believe any specific trade secrets are even alleged. From the filing:

Apple all but admits that it has not yet identified the alleged trade secrets, promising an “iterative process” of discovery, after which it will tell Defendants and the Court what the alleged trade secrets are.

The hearing is October 1st. OpenAI’s DevDay is September 29th. Hopefully we’ll see the new device before the lawsuit goes much further.

I thought it was a dead pixel, but there’s actually a tiny chip in the glass of my MacBook Pro screen. Annoying in the nitpicky, small life problems kind of way. Really want to keep this machine another couple years.

Got notice from Linode that 8 of my servers need to rebooted in the next month. A couple of them have 2-year uptime! There won’t be downtime except for one of the servers, might be a short blip, which I’ll schedule ahead of time.

I’ve been randomly reading and listening to physics topics, not sure why, including lectures by Richard Feynman. Something finally clicked with understanding relativity and spacetime. I sort of got it before, but not really. 🤯

I don’t get the Claudeforce name. Why tie your product to a single model? That’s someone else’s brand. And whenever a competitor like OpenAI does something good, your own product will feel out of step too.

I wonder if Apple will ever merge App Store Connect into developer.apple.com. Pretty weird that things are still fragmented. (“Oh, you want to update an app ID? Better go somewhere else.”)

It’s a minor nitpick. Just the whole backend feels stagnant because they have a monopoly on app distribution.

Myke Hurley blogging about the upcoming campaign for St. Jude:

We are now within reaching distance of $5 million raised. What an incredible achievement in less than 10 years. I don’t think I could have imagined what we would all achieve together. But time and time again, the Relay community has stood by us and believed in this cause.

Great story at Cartoon Brew about Peter Cullen’s voice acting work. I had never really thought why he was so good as Optimus Prime:

His brother’s idea of heroism became central to Cullen’s interpretation of the character and arguably had a tremendous impact on generations of children who could look up to a strong leader who didn’t rely on bravado or overt displays of aggression.

Rest in peace.

I shaved off about half a second while loading the Micro.blog home page timeline. It helps, but also doesn’t have as dramatic a perceived effect as I was hoping. Performance is so many small things.