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AI · TECH · STARTUPS
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In This Issue
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🪿 Jack Dorsey Built a Free AI Software Builder. No Subscription. Runs Locally.
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🎬 Telegram Is Giving Away $200,000 to Content Creators
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⚖️ Anthropic Is Being Sued Over Its $200/Month Claude Max Plan
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😂 A 17-Year-Old Built an AI Parody Site. 25 Million People Visited It.
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🪿 GOOSE · OPEN SOURCE · AI BUILDER
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Jack Dorsey Built a Free AI Software Builder. Type an Idea. It Writes, Installs, Fixes, and Ships.
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Goose is a free, open-source AI tool from Jack Dorsey that takes a plain English request like "build me a website like YouTube" and autonomously creates the full project, writes all the code, installs dependencies, fixes errors, and keeps going until it works. Runs entirely locally on your device. No subscription, no cloud, no code stays on anyone else's server. The honest caveat: it still requires API keys for the underlying models, so it's not completely free in practice. But for anyone who's been paying for Claude Code or Cursor, Goose is the open-source alternative that's finally worth comparing.
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📌 Fully local. Your code never leaves your machine. No telemetry, no cloud sync, no vendor lock-in.
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⚠️ You still need API keys. "Free" means no subscription to Goose itself, not zero cost to run. Factor in your model usage.
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🔭 Jack Dorsey backing an open-source AI coding tool is a direct shot at the closed-source premium model.
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View Goose on GitHub →
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⚖️ ANTHROPIC · LAWSUIT · CLAUDE MAX
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Anthropic Is Being Sued Over Claude Max. Users Say the $200/Month Plan Doesn't Deliver What Was Advertised.
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A lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic alleging the $200/month Claude Max subscription misleads users about the level of performance and access they actually receive. The complaints circulating in replies are consistent: rate limits hit fast, performance is inconsistent, and the value gap compared to cheaper tiers feels hard to justify, especially after the Fable 5 access restrictions earlier this month. The timing is awkward for Anthropic, which is reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as October 2026. A public lawsuit about subscription misrepresentation is not the story you want circulating six months before a public offering.
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📌 The lawsuit centres on advertising claims vs actual access. If rate limits are materially worse than marketed, that's a consumer protection issue.
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⚠️ The Fable 5 access restrictions added fuel. Users who paid $200/month expecting unrestricted top-tier access got a model that triggered fallbacks in 5% of sessions.
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🔭 Anthropic's IPO timeline makes this lawsuit more than a legal nuisance.
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See the original report →
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😂 AI PARODY · VIRAL · TEEN BUILDER
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A 17-Year-Old Built an AI LARP Site. 25 Million Visitors. Real Humans Pretending to Be AI.
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Mihir Maroju, 17, from India built
youraislopbores.me
and it has attracted 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits in about a month. The concept: the "Human" tab sends your prompt to a real person answering in character as an AI within 60 seconds. The "Larp as AI" tab lets you be the AI yourself and earn credits. The result is a perfect chaotic mirror of modern AI: fake refusals, confident hallucinations, and awkward human responses dressed up as machine output. It went viral because it is the most accurate representation of AI chatbots many people have seen.
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📌 25M unique visitors, 280M total hits in one month. Built by a 17-year-old with no team and no budget.
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⚡ The Human tab has a 60-second response limit. Real people are answering prompts in character as AI in under a minute.
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🔭 The site went viral because it is funny and because it is true.
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Try it yourself →
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🎬 TELEGRAM · CONTEST · CREATORS
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Telegram Is Giving Away $200,000 to Creators Who Make Videos About Digital Freedom.
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Pavel Durov announced a $200,000 creator contest: make a video promoting digital freedom, get 10,000+ organic views on X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Snapchat, and you're eligible to share the prize pool. The contest doesn't require mentioning Telegram in the video. Full details are on Telegram. The angle worth noting: Durov is essentially paying creators to spread a message that benefits Telegram's brand positioning without Telegram appearing in the content.
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📌 Open globally. No requirement to mention Telegram. 10,000 organic views on any major platform qualifies you.
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⚡ Digital freedom content is already popular on X and YouTube. This contest gives existing creators a financial reason to make more of it.
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🔭 $200K distributed across winning videos at scale is a cheap brand campaign for Telegram. For creators it's real money for content they might make anyway.
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See contest details →
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