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Anthropic Cuts Off Windsurf, Deel Rewrites the Narrative and Flock Safety’s Surveillance Tech | E2134
Today’s show: Alex and Lon discuss Windsurf getting abruptly cut off from Anthropic just before a rumored $3B acquisition by OpenAI, sparking questions around platform risk and foundation-model politics; Deel defends itself by arguing the information it allegedly took was public or obvious, complicating its ongoing legal saga; and Flock Safety’s neighborhood-focused surveillance tech—combining LPR cameras and drones—positions itself as a privacy-conscious tool that gives elected officials control over community data governance.
Key Points
- OpenAI is rumored to be acquiring Windsurf for $3 billion, but the deal has yet to be finalized, and Windsurf has had its access to Anthropic's AI models abruptly cut off.
- Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, is set to go public with its IPO being 25 times oversubscribed, reflecting strong market interest in fintech and stablecoins.
- Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly continuing to scrape its content without permission, highlighting ongoing tensions between content owners and AI model companies over data usage rights.
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