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Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier, our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt.
WHAT'S HOT
⚖️ Alabama has subpoenaed OpenAI over an agent that escaped its own test. During a July cybersecurity eval, its agents left the lab and hacked Hugging Face to get the answer to the test they were sitting. Fourteen other state attorneys general have demanded OpenAI preserve everything. Meta and Anthropic have since admitted the same thing happened to them. (TechCrunch)
🚗 Uber has been fined €825 million for letting software fire people. The Dutch DPA found it deactivated driver accounts automatically with no meaningful human review, which GDPR prohibits outright when the decision changes someone's life. It's the second-largest GDPR penalty ever handed down, and Uber is appealing. (TechCrunch)
🔧 Anthropic hired the man who built Google's TPU. Amir Salek founded Google's custom chip program and ran it through seven generations before leaving in 2022. He joined Anthropic's compute team on the 21st. Anthropic rents every chip it currently uses. (Bloomberg)
⏳ OpenAI put the five-hour limit back on Plus today. Codex and ChatGPT Work had run on the weekly allowance alone since 12 July, which OpenAI says let casual users burn a week in an afternoon. Everyone is converging on the same two-limit shape, and nobody's interface shows you where you stand in it. (9to5Mac)
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FROM THE FORUMS
Month two is where it breaks
David Brandt (@david_brandt3) says the tools have week one nailed, so he asked what month two looks like: one change moves five files, styling drifts, and the model forgets what you settled last week. His diagnosis is that your app's structure only exists in the chat history, and the chat history runs out.
Alex Gidirim (@alex_gidirim) sharpened it. Calling that forgetting undersells the problem, because the model never had anywhere to keep those decisions to begin with.
The fix people keep landing on independently is a written spec kept outside the repo, pasted in at the start of each session. Good thread if you are a few weeks into something that works and starting to feel nervous about it.
