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A federal judge granted final approval to a $1.5B settlement where Anthropic will pay authors roughly $3,000 per book after training Claude on pirated copies — the largest known copyright recovery in history.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. could sanction Chinese AI firms if evidence of IP theft from American model developers — including through distillation attacks — is confirmed.
A new BloombergNEF report projects U.S. data centers will consume one-fifth of all electricity by 2035 — an estimate 83% higher than the consultancy's December 2024 forecast, driven by AI infrastructure demand.
The Information reported Anthropic held acquisition talks with robotics startup Physical Intelligence this spring. The CEO denied it to employees via Slack, but sources indicate 'something had happened.' OpenAI's existing PI investment complicates any deal.
Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace unifying team chat, Git hosting, and AI agents under a single cryptographic identity system built on the Nostr protocol — free for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Deezer reports more than half of its daily uploads are now AI-generated — 90,000 AI tracks per day, up from 10,000 eighteen months ago. The platform plans to remove AI tracks with zero streams within six months.
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B MoE open-weight coding model trained from scratch in 9 weeks, free on Hugging Face — beating DeepSeek-V4-Flash and rivals 10x its size on agentic coding benchmarks.
Meta is piloting StoryKit on iOS, where parents photograph a toy or person to generate personalized AI children's stories with music and customizable moral lessons — no writing required.
