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Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors
The largest copyright payout in U.S. history closes one case but leaves the fair-use question open for OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Midjourney.
Sony sues Udio over 30,000 songs in expanded AI training copyright case
Sony seeks up to $150,000 per work after a judge blocked it from adding the tracks to the original 2024 case against the AI music generator.
Firefighting drones tested in California and Alaska as fire season stretches year-round
CAL FIRE, Seneca, and Dryad Networks put autonomous suppression drones through live trials as the $11M XPRIZE Wildfire competition wraps up.
Model Context Protocol drops stateful sessions in next week's update
The plumbing behind AI agent integrations shifts to a stateless design, addressing a scaling headache that has slowed first-party MCP rollouts.
Google's Frozen v2 chip targets 6-10x efficiency gain for Gemini
Alphabet is designing a 2028 server chip to run Gemini cheaper as it spends $190B on AI infrastructure this year.
Kimi's release splits Trump's AI advisors into open-source war
Moonshot's free Kimi model rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, and Trump's current and former AI advisors are trading insults over what to do about it.
Chris Fall resigns as head of US AI standards agency after three months
The director of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation is out just three months after taking the role in April.
Adobe wires Google's Nano Banana into Project Indigo camera app
The version 1.1 update adds generative filters, object removal, and AI photo critique — running on Google's model, not Adobe's Firefly.
YouTube tightens monetization rules on AI slop and distressing videos
Three categories of 'inauthentic content' now bar creators from Partner Program payouts, with AI personas on health and finance singled out.
Nvidia opens creative apps to AI agents at SIGGRAPH with MCP push
Adobe, Blender, Unreal and Affinity connect AI agents into production pipelines as Nvidia ships a Synthetic Video Detector hitting 92% accuracy.
CuspAI raises $450M from UK government and Jeff Bezos for materials discovery
The Cambridge-based startup wants to use generative AI to design new materials for carbon capture, batteries, and semiconductors.
Bristol Myers buys Nvidia's newest AI computing system for drug research
The pharma giant becomes an early customer for Nvidia's latest AI hardware, deploying it to accelerate small-molecule and biologic discovery.
UK AISI: open-weight models now trail closed AI on cyber by 4-7 months
GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro closed the cyber capability gap from 6-10 months to 4-7 months. Kimi K3 is next in line.
Augment Code bets on semantic retrieval to beat Claude Code on efficiency
Augment says its context engine runs Terminal-Bench 33% more efficiently than Claude Code using the same underlying model.
Moonshot and Alibaba unveil open-weight rivals to GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5
Kimi K3 lands at 2.8 trillion parameters, Qwen3.8 at 2.4 trillion, and both will release weights that US labs keep locked down.
LLMs stereotype job candidates 65% more than humans in Princeton hiring study
OpenAI's o3 scored 1.83 on a segregation scale where 2 is total sorting — and reasoning models were the worst offenders.
Nvidia anchors Japan's $6.2B sovereign AI push with Vera Rubin factory
Jensen Huang's two-day Tokyo swing yielded a national AI factory, a robotics coalition of 44 firms, and deeper Toyota integration.
1010Benja's Suno-made track 'Semiramis' Dream' rewrites the AI music debate
The rapper ran vocals and beats through Suno a few hundred times to build the track — and refuses to hide the AI credit.
Christopher Nolan calls AI a Trojan horse the public already sees through
The Odyssey director says young viewers' 'AI slop' backlash is healthy skepticism, not technophobia.
Current AI raises $400M to build a public AI alternative to OpenAI and Google
The French-seeded nonprofit has deployed $3.2M in grants and shipped an open chatbot built in seven weeks by ten organizations.
Dave Eggers tells 200 OpenAI staff ChatGPT is silencing a generation
Sam Altman invited the novelist to speak. Eggers used the stage to call ChatGPT's impact on teachers 'catastrophic' and student writing a 'tragedy.'
CMS pilots AI-driven prior authorization in six states as doctors warn of more denials
The WISeR program brings machine learning to original Medicare through 2031, while 61% of physicians fear AI will worsen coverage denials.
Google switches Gemini quotas to compute-based limits across all tiers
Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, and AI Ultra now meter by prompt complexity, not request count — and Google won't publish the free tier's baseline.
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer warns AI wealth will be redistributed
The Index Ventures co-founder says AI's windfall will get shared voluntarily or forcibly, as Giving Pledge signups collapse to four families in 2024.
Google-backed FireSat satellites launch as wildfire smoke chokes North America
Three microsatellites can spot fires as small as 5 by 5 meters, with a 50+ satellite constellation targeting 20-minute revisits by the early 2030s.
Databricks hits $188B valuation as Coatue leads new round
The data platform's fourth up-round in 18 months lifts its mark 40% above February's $134B, cementing its AI-provider reinvention.
Vertu's $6,880 Alphafold pitches an AI agent for executives, delivers mixed results
Hermes Agent acts more autonomously than Gemini but misses reminder times, books wrong trip dates, and forgets uploaded files days later.
TikTok tests an opt-in AI likeness detection tool for creators
The scanner uses a Jumio identity check and a selfie to flag unauthorized deepfakes, launching first with a slice of US creators.
AI memory demand jolts India's smartphone market as shipments fall 10%
Handset makers squeezed as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron divert capacity to HBM for AI accelerators; entry-level India segment collapses 45%.
Agility Robotics opens Fremont training facility next door to Tesla's Optimus factory
The humanoid maker has $300M in contract orders, dozens of Digits deployed, and a reverse-merger IPO planned for later this year.
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