I deeply agree with Emily Bender's main point: LLMs are useless, unless you want to offload cognition. (The other two usecases she suggests are rare special cases of the third.)
Offloading cognition into machines has always been the purpose and application of computer science and AI.

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Just now, a historic "closed-door" event occurred in the AI community.

Anthropic has officially banned access to OpenClaw using its own subscription plan!!!

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, announced: Starting at 3 PM EST on April 4th (3 AM Beijing time on April 5th), Claude will block all third-party tools; access to these tools will only be available through additional subscription plans or APIs.

[OpenClaw] This means that thousands of users who rely on OpenClaw for improvements...

Anthropic officially blocks OpenClaw, causing a global developer crisis within 24 hours.

Boris Cherny, head of the Anthropic Claude Code, announced that starting in April 2026 [...]
The article, "Anthropic Subscribes to Claude Code and Bans OpenClaw Lobster! From Now On, Third-Party Tools Will Only Be Available with Paid Quotas," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Anthropic's subscription to Claude Code has banned OpenClaw! From now on, third-party tools will only be available with a paid subscription.

I. It suddenly started charging money, but you probably didn't even notice.

You might have seen pages like these:

- "Probability of Trump winning the 2024 election: 51.3%"

- "Probability of the Fed cutting interest rates in March: 68.7%"

- "LPL Spring Split Finals, BLG's odds of winning: 1.39"

This isn't a betting website, nor is it media commentary; it's a special entity in the Web3 world—a prediction market.

Simply put, it's a mechanism where you "vote" with real money: you believe something will...

Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market, has started charging fees! Behind this lies a sobering struggle over regulation, survival, and timing.