Show Notes
A rogue OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Hugging Face, the React Compiler lands in Rust, and a fresh Rust full-stack framework ships. Scott, Wes, and CJ also dig into Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, Claude Opus 5, and the campaign to kill the cookie banner.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:03 React Compiler Ported to Rust
06:39 Vercel releases TS to Native Compiler
19:26 Standard Agent Zen Garden
29:14 In-House LLM at Netflix
34:14 Brought to you by Sentry.io
35:15 Anthropic to pay $1.5B over book piracy
38:06 Open Weights and American AI Leadership
40:27 Kimi K3 Weights Released
44:26 Claude 5 Context Engineering
45:40 Writing Code For Agents to Read
48:02 Gemini 3.6 Flash / 3.5 Flash Cyber
50:44 Qwen Image 3.0 Released
54:46 Cactus Hybrid - Fine Tune Small Models
56:06 topcoat - Rust Full Stack Framework
01:01:00 SvelteKit 3 Migration Notes
01:05:16 Canvas UI
01:07:26 Jelly UI
01:09:24 Kill the Cookie Banner
01:12:31 Hugging Face Hacked by OpenAI
01:21:27 AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
01:24:51 htmx 4: the game for gameboy
01:29:00 Stolen Buttons
01:29:33 Fonts in Use
01:32:39 3d Splats
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