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The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Marilyn Monroe Was Born in 1926, The European Central Bank Was Founded in 1998, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Why Extracting Text From PDFs Still Feels Like a Hack–And the Legacy Design that Keeps AI Stuck to Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Pirating Millions of Books to Train Claude AI, let’s dive right in.

What If Your Blog Had a Product Manager? (Hint: It’s You)

TL;DR Run your blog like a product. Learn how to define your audience, set goals, and build a content strategy that drives real growth.

By @editingprotocol [ 4 Min read ]

Most bloggers focus on publishing content—but the best ones treat their blog like a product. That means thinking strategically: defining your audience, setting goals, building systems, and iterating based on feedback.

Already an expert? Share your learnings using this template!

Then ask:

What would wild success look like?..

Will VR Integration for Remote Work Become Permanent?

TL;DR The best part of VR is that it provides a three-dimensional immersive space where employees can interact as if they were physically present.

By @allan-grain [ 3 Min read ]

If there’s been any seismic shift in the workplace over the last few decades, it’s manifested in the way remote work has become a cornerstone of modern business operations.

Tomorrow’s workplace promises to be more immersive and perhaps even more fun...

Why Extracting Text From PDFs Still Feels Like a Hack–And the Legacy Design that Keeps AI Stuck

TL;DR Discover how the original PDF design creates hurdles for AI document parsing and learn solutions for better, machine-readable document workflows.

By @paoloap [ 6 Min read ]

Long before LLMs entered the picture, entire SaaS businesses were built around managing the messiness of PDFs. And for good reason, it’s a format that was never designed for the kind of structured, machine-readable access we now expect.

https://techaudienceaccelerator.substack.com/?embedable=true..

Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Pirating Millions of Books to Train Claude AI

TL;DR Anthropic allegedly used over 7M pirated books to train Claude AI. Authors sue over copyright theft fueling a billion-dollar LLM business.

By @legalpdf [ 8 Min read ]

ANDREA BARTZ, CHARLES GRAEBER, and KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON v. ANTHROPIC PBC, retrieved on June 25, 2025, is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This is part 2 of 10.

Continue reading HERE...

a16z Thinks Controversial Startup Cluely Is the Future of AI

TL;DR As soon as a16z’s Bryan Kim saw Cluely’s buzz online, he was intrigued. He hadn’t even met the founder yet, but he could tell the company was onto something.

By @techthrilled [ 4 Min read ]

Cluely is a bold, new AI startup. It claims to help people “cheat” at everything — from dating to conversations — using artificial intelligence.

Its messaging is intentionally provocative. The company grabbed attention by launching a video where its founder, Roy Lee, used AI to fake knowledge on a date...

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