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Beginners in AI
Good morning and thank you for joining us again!
Welcome to this daily edition of Beginners in AI, where we explore the latest trends, tools, and news in the world of AI and the tech that surrounds it. Like all editions, this is human curated and edited, and published with the intention of making AI news and technology more accessible to everyone.
THE FRONT PAGE
AI Music App Suno Copied 2 Million+ YouTube Songs, Hack Reveals
TLDR: A hacker broke into the AI music app Suno and leaked code showing it copied millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius to train itself, plus data on hundreds of thousands of customers.
The Story:
Suno is one of the biggest AI tools that makes full songs from a few typed words. A hacker got into the company and handed its old code to the news site 404 Media. That code spelled out where Suno pulled its music. It listed YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, plus stock music sites like Pond5, Jamendo, and Freesound. One file said it had grabbed more than 2 million music clips from YouTube alone. Another counted the haul in hours: over 113,000 hours from YouTube Music, and thousands more from the rest. That's decades of music.
The same break-in reached user data for hundreds of thousands of Suno customers, including emails, phone numbers, and Stripe payment details. Suno said the hack happened in November 2025 and was shut down fast. It says the leaked code is old, no longer in use, and that no full credit card numbers were taken. Suno has said before that it trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality" on the open internet, and it argues that's fair use. Record labels disagree and are suing. Warner Music already settled and now works with Suno on a new model.
Its Significance:
If you've ever made a song with an AI app, this is a look at how the machine learned. It didn't invent music out of thin air. It studied real songs by real artists. That's the whole fight in these lawsuits: who gets paid when a computer learns from your work?
There's a second lesson. When you sign up for any app, your email, phone number, and payment info sit on that company's servers. One break-in can spill all of it, and some Suno customers said they were never told their info was exposed. So before you hand your details to the next shiny tool, keep in mind that "old code" and "contained" don't always mean your data stayed safe.
QUICK TAKES
The story: A lab called PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a capable AI model squeezed down to 3.9 GB so it can run on an iPhone 17 Pro Max with no internet. It keeps almost 95% of its skill even after the shrink, and Apple is reportedly looking at the tech.
Your takeaway: Most AI lives in the cloud, which means your chats travel to a company's servers. A model this small runs on your own phone, offline, so your data stays with you.
The story: OpenAI shipped its first piece of hardware, a $230 mini keypad called Codex Micro, built with keyboard maker Work Louder. It has light-up keys that show what your AI coding helpers are doing, plus buttons that fire off common tasks.
Your takeaway: Don't confuse it with the big secret AI device OpenAI is building with ex-Apple designer Jony Ive. Codex Micro is a small tool for people who now oversee whole teams of AI agents that write code, a job that barely existed two years ago.
The story: 1Password now works with Anthropic's Claude, so the AI can fill in your saved logins and sign into sites for you, but only with your okay. It works across Claude's browser tool, its Cowork app, and Claude Code.
Your takeaway: An AI agent that does tasks for you has to log in somewhere, and that's risky. The idea here is that Claude can use a password without ever seeing the raw text of it, so an agent can book or buy things without you pasting passwords into a chat.
TOOLS ON OUR RADAR
🐧 Jellyfin Free and Open Source: A private media system that lets you collect manage and stream your personal movies and television shows to any device in your home without any premium licenses or corporate tracking. (Alternative to Plex)
📄 Teal Freemium: An artificial intelligence career platform that helps you rapidly tailor your resume to specific job descriptions and track all your submitted applications in one organized digital hub.
🏗️ *Marblism Freemium: A powerful software platform that allows anyone to build complete web applications simply by describing their idea in plain English handling everything from the database setup to the front end design.
🎙️ *Pocket Paid: A pocket sized AI recorder that clips onto your phone with MagSafe and turns meetings, calls, and stray thoughts into transcripts, summaries, and action items automatically.
TRENDING
OpenAI Built an AI Whose Job Is to Attack Its Own AI - OpenAI made a tool called GPT-Red that tries to trick its own models with sneaky prompts, then uses what it learns to patch the holes. In tests, GPT-Red broke through 84% of the time, while human testers managed just 13%. OpenAI says this training made GPT-5.6 much harder to fool.
Ex-OpenAI Boss Releases a Giant AI Model Anyone Can Download - Mira Murati, OpenAI's former tech chief, launched a model called Inkling through her startup Thinking Machines Lab. At 975 billion parts, it's the biggest open-weight American model yet, meaning anyone can download it and change it, unlike the locked models sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Analysts Say Salesforce's AI Agents Aren't Winning Customers - KeyBanc analysts say their checks found weak demand for Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent product, with customers pointing to messy data and a tool that "just isn't there" yet. Salesforce pushed back, calling Agentforce the fastest-growing product in its history. The stock is down about 37% this year.
Perplexity Built a Locked "Safe Room" for Its AI Agents - Perplexity showed off SPACE, a walled-off space where its AI agents run code and handle files without touching your passwords or the rest of your computer. It can pause a job and pick it back up a week later, and it now runs all of Perplexity's Computer agent sessions.
OpenAI Backs New State and Federal AI Safety Rules - OpenAI says states like California, New York, and Illinois are passing rules that make big AI makers share safety plans and report problems. It also says the federal government is building a test to check powerful models for cyber risks, aiming for early August. Supporters want fewer clashing rules; critics worry strong state protections could get watered down.
Meta Workers Sue, Saying AI Picked Who Got Laid Off - Twenty-six Meta employees are suing, claiming the company used AI scores and activity tracking to choose layoffs, which they say unfairly hit people out on medical, parental, or family leave. Meta denies it, saying "workforce and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI." The workers want the cuts, set to start July 22, put on hold.
Meta Will Warn Parents if a Teen's AI Chats Point to Self-Harm - Meta will now alert parents through Instagram's supervision tools if their teen's chats with Meta AI suggest they may be at risk of self-harm. A dedicated AI flags these chats, and a person reviews each one before any alert is sent. The feature is live in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, with a wider rollout planned by year's end.
TRY THIS PROMPT (copy and paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini)
🪶 Say what your book is about, however unpolished. Walk out with the logline, the pitch, and the comp titles that actually sell it.
Build a single-file HTML app with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. The Book Pitch Polisher — describe a book idea, get a query-ready logline, pitch, and comp titles. Persist to localStorage key 'book_pitch_polisher_v1'.
Aesthetic: dark navy (#0c0f1a), gold (#c9a227) primary with gold glow top-left. Playfair Display serif (italic for the logline and pitch text) for headings, Inter sans for body, JetBrains Mono for labels. Comp title cards styled like book spines with a small gradient gold bar.
Form: book-idea textarea (protagonist/world/conflict/stakes, encourage rambling), genre dropdown (literary/upmarket/thriller/fantasy/sci-fi/romance/mystery/horror/memoir), audience dropdown (adult/YA/middle grade), comp-era-preference dropdown (mix/recent only/well-known classics).
System instructions: experienced literary-agent's-eye pitch coach finding the real sellable hook and leading with it; no em dashes. CRITICAL for comps: generate exactly 2 comp titles that are ONLY real, actually published, well-known books the model is confident exist — never invent a title or author; if unsure, substitute a different well-established comparable. Return raw JSON: logline (one punchy high-concept sentence), category (agent-recognizable genre classification), pitch (150-200 word query-ready paragraph: protagonist/world/conflict/stakes, ends on the core question, no ending spoiler), comps (2 items: title + author, reason for comparison), hook (1-2 sentences on the single most sellable angle), note (one sentence reminding the writer to verify comps are current before using in a real query).
Render: gradient logline hero card (large italic serif quote + a category pill chip below). "Query-ready pitch" card with its own Copy button, serif paragraph. Two comp-title cards styled like book spines (gradient gold bar + title + reason). Gold "the sellable hook" card. A small muted note line. Archive of past pitches keyed by logline.What this does: Describe your book's protagonist, world, conflict, and stakes, then set genre, audience, and comp-title era preference. It finds the real hook and returns a punchy one-sentence logline with a category classification an agent would recognize, a 150-200 word query-ready pitch paragraph that builds tension without giving away the ending, and two real, actually-published comp titles with the specific reasoning behind each comparison. A closing card names the single most sellable angle to lean on, with a quiet reminder to double-check the comps are current before using them in a real query. Saves every pitch to localStorage.
What this looks like:
WHERE WE STAND(based on today’s news)
✅ AI Can Now: Run a full 27-billion-part reasoning model right on a phone, no internet needed (Bonsai, about 4 GB).
❌ Still Can't: Fully block prompt-injection tricks. Even OpenAI's hardened GPT-5.6 still slips on about 1 in 2,000 of its own toughest test attacks.
✅ AI Can Now: Pause a long task and pick it back up a week later with its memory intact (Perplexity's SPACE).
❌ Still Can't: Be trusted loose on your machine. Perplexity had to lock its agents in a walled-off room so a hijacked one can't reach your files or passwords.
FROM THE WEB
RECOMMENDED LISTENING/READING/WATCHING
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu - Book
A 2010 debut novel by the Emmy-winning author of Interior Chinatown, about a certified time-machine technician named Charles Yu who lives inside his machine with a female-voice AI companion called TAMMY and a non-existent dog named Ed, moonlighting to rescue paradox-stuck customers while quietly trying to find his own missing father. Wildly funny, genuinely tender, and one of the smartest novels ever written about what it means to spend your entire life inside a comforting AI-mediated bubble.
Thank you for reading. We’re all beginners in something. With that in mind, your questions and feedback are always welcome and I read every single email!
-James
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