🍭 Reddit Locked The Door Six Years Late 🔒

Good morning. Reddit is changing the locks to keep AI out.

"Officer, the burglars left in 2020. Can I still file a report?"

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Google's new frontier model is out, just not for you

• Reddit is killing RSS to stop AI scrapers (about six years late)

• OpenAI caught Moonshot-linked users peeking at its model's notes

Reddit
🔒 Locks Up After The Robbery

The Bite:

Reddit announced Wednesday it will end support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds on November 13.

RSS lets apps and feed readers automatically check a page for new posts, and many third-party tools, bots and moderator alerts depend on it.

New requests for public API access stop on October 31.

All remaining public API access ends in March 2027.

Reddit cites large-scale scraping and automated abuse as the reason.

Snacks:

• Reddit says there is no RSS replacement for anyone outside communities they moderate.

• More than 14,000 apps and bots have already registered.

• Reddit licenses its data to Google, in a 2024 deal worth roughly $60 million a year, and to OpenAI.

• It has sued Anthropic and Perplexity over alleged scraping.

• "Other revenue," which includes data licensing, hit $43 million last quarter, up 24% and about 5% of total revenue.

Why it Bites:

Reddit says it’s changing the locks to keep AI scrapers out.

Small detail: the scrapers have been inside for about six years.

Most of the big models were already trained on Reddit threads.
Google and OpenAI are already paying, and their deals keep running.
$43 million on data licensing last quarter, up 24%.

The ones left outside are the late arrivals.
And every platform with a comment section is taking notes.

Even though there are other ways to limit scraping, the playbook seems to be locking everyone out. Six years late.

The first wave of AI got Reddit for free. All the next ones gets an invoice.

Steal This Prompt
🍣 Turn Any Food Into a Monster

Take a boring burger, taco, sushi roll, or donut and turn it into a chaotic food monster. Complete with googly eyes, teeth, and ingredients exploding everywhere.

Use it to:

• Turn your favorite foods into ridiculous monsters

• Create scroll-stopping food photography for social

• Build weird characters for brands, menus, or memes

Workflow:

1. Hit this link: Monster Food Explosion

2. Paste into your AI model

3. Replace the food with your own

4. Watch it cook, literally, probably.

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

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🧠 You Need to Know

🧠 Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon For Cyber Defenders First
→ The frontier model can generate up to 1 million tokens in one response and will reach developers, enterprises and consumers only after a phased rollout to vetted cybersecurity teams.

🔒 Reddit Kills RSS And Public API Over AI Scraping
→ RSS feeds stop working November 13 and all remaining public API access ends in March 2027, with Reddit citing scraping bots and automated abuse.

🕵️ OpenAI Ties Moonshot To A Reasoning Extraction Campaign
→ OpenAI said that people linked to the Kimi developer drove a July effort to pull hidden reasoning from its models, peaking at 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users in two days.

🏢 Meta Launches Enterprise AI Unit Led By MongoDB's CEO
→ Meta Enterprise Platform will sell the Muse agent and related AI tools to businesses, with former MongoDB chief executive CJ Desai reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg.

💸 Broadcom Will Lend Anthropic Up To $42 Billion
→ Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows the loan would cover about a third of its $125.2 billion five-year commitment to lease tensor processing unit computing capacity.