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Whatnot acquires Shaped, Suno faces data scraping claims, Thinking Machines releases Inkling

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Whatnot Company has acquired the AI startup Shaped to improve its live shopping recommendations and expand into new product categories. Separately, a hacker reportedly accessed Suno's source code, suggesting the AI music generator may have scraped YouTube audio data for training. In another development, Thinking Machines has released its first open-source AI model, Inkling, aiming to make AI infrastructure more accessible. AI

IMPACT This cluster highlights an acquisition for AI-powered shopping, a potential data scraping issue for AI music generation, and an open-source model release for AI infrastructure.

RANK_REASON This cluster contains an acquisition, a data privacy concern, and an open-source model release, none of which meet the criteria for frontier_release, significant, or research.

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Whatnot acquires Shaped, Suno faces data scraping claims, Thinking Machines releases Inkling

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · sagalinked ·

    📰 Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped to enhance its real-time live shopping recommendations and discovery features as it expands into new product categories

    📰 Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped to enhance its real-time live shopping recommendations and discovery features as it expands into new product categories. 🔗 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/what not-acquires-shaped-to-power-real-time-live-shopping-recommendations/ # Tech…

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/whatnot-acquires-shaped-…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · sagalinked ·

    📰 A hacker accessed Suno's source code to reveal that it scraped decades of YouTube audio data for training purposes. 🔗 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/hack

    📰 A hacker accessed Suno's source code to reveal that it scraped decades of YouTube audio data for training purposes. 🔗 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/hack -suggests-ai-music-generator-suno-scraped-youtube-for-training-data/ # Tech # AI

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/hack-suggests-ai-music-g…
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · sagalinked ·

    📰 Thinking Machines has unveiled its first open-source AI model, Inkling, marking a significant step towards democratizing artificial intelligence infrastructur

    📰 Thinking Machines has unveiled its first open-source AI model, Inkling, marking a significant step towards democratizing artificial intelligence infrastructure. 🔗 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/thin king-machines-amps-up-its-bet-against-one-size-fits-all-ai-with-its-first-o…

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/thinking-machines-amps-u…

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