Latent Space AINews: Apple's War on Slop — Blocking Vibe Coding Apps, LiteLLM Compromise, and the End of Sora

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The Latent Space newsletter covers Apple quietly blocking Replit and Vibecode from App Store updates over code execution policy violations — Replit dropped from #1 to #3 in dev tool charts since January due to the block. The roundup also covers AI2's talent exodus to Microsoft, the LiteLLM supply chain compromise, Hermes Agent v0.4.0 with ~300 merged PRs and self-improvement loops, and AI2's MolmoWeb browser agent claiming open-weight SOTA across four benchmarks.