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A first-person account from an ex-Autodesk researcher clarifying the long-circulated rumor that Autodesk trademarked 'cyberspace' and William Gibson retaliated by trademarking 'Eric Gullichsen'—confirming the trademark dispute was real while the counter-trademark was a prank by Timothy Leary.
Gergely Orosz criticizes Autodesk for adopting aggressive customer practices similar to Adobe's, citing a small business owner's complaint about high per-user licensing costs and license enforcement. The post warns that alienating loyal customers can turn them into vocal detractors.
Autodesk Research introduces FLOORA, a family of small domain-specific language models using a custom DSL for architectural layout generation, where a 0.6B model outperforms much larger frontier models with up to 92% VLM judge win rates on out-of-distribution buildings.
Autodesk commits $350 million over three years to expand free technology access, train one million people, and help 200,000 earn industry-recognized certifications for AI jobs in the physical world.