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This week in AI: The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. Updated 2026-07-29

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#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?

The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly buying old books while Nvidia released a simulator that teaches robots through video, motion and synthetic consequences....

2026-07-29

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#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?
The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly buying old books while Nvidia released a simulator that teaches robots through video, motion and synthetic consequences....
2026-07-29
#516 OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next?
#515 China's AI is redrawing the AI race
#514 Applied AI Is Here: What's Working, What Got Pulled Back, and Why Now
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