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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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