Congress might block state AI laws for five years. Here’s what it means.
Rebecca Bellan, Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Here…
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Meta shares hit all-time high as Mark Zuckerberg goes on AI hiring blitz
cnbc - Meta shares hit a record high on Monday, underscoring investor interest in the company's new AI superintelligence group.
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Tinder is mandating face checks for California residents
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Tinder is requiring new users in California to verify their identities by using facial recognition, according to a report by Axios. The policy goes into effect today as a test program. The obvious reason behind this is to make sure people are who they say…
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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Julie Bort / techcrunch - Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
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Tech Giants Score Legal Wins in AI Copyright Battles
Multiple rulings have favored AI companies in disputes over fair use of copyrighted material. A judge affirmed Meta’s use as fair in one case while cautioning that authors might prevail in future litigation, leaving the legal landscape both murky and unexpectedly congenial for tech giants battling creative copyright claims.
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New Anthropic initiative will fund research into the economic impact of AI
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC is launching an initiative designed to support research into the economic impact of artificial intelligence and ways to address it. The Anthropic Economic Futures Program, as the project is called, was announced today. It’s designed to compl…
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Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.
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Microsoft faces a lawsuit alleging it used 200,000 pirated books to train AI
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Microsoft is being sued by several authors who say their books were used without permission to train a Megatron model.The article Microsoft faces a lawsuit alleging it used 200,000 pirated books to train AI appeared first on THE DECODER.
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AI is doing 30%-50% of the work at Salesforce, CEO Marc Benioff says
cnbc - Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff.
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Micron’s AI Memory Chips Drive Stock Surge and Q4 Optimism
Investors are cheering as Micron Technology rides a wave of surging demand for AI-related memory chips. The company forecasts strong fourth-quarter revenue fueled by the growing appetite in the AI market, even as industry turbulence persists—proving once again that in tech, memory may be fleeting, but momentum isn’t.
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Getty Pivots in UK Lawsuit Against Stability AI, Shifting the Copyright Battleground
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - In a major legal pivot, Getty Images has dropped its core copyright claims against Stability AI in the UK, shifting the AI copyright war's focus from fair use to data piracy and trademark law.The post Getty Pivots in UK Lawsuit Against Stability AI, Shift…
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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issu…
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Micron reports earnings, revenue beat and issues strong forecast
cnbc - Micron reported earnings and revenue on Wednesday that exceeded analysts' estimates.
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Rubrik acquires LLM tooling startup Predibase for reported $100M+
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Rubrik Inc. today announced plans to acquire Predibase Inc., a startup that develops software for fine-tuning large language models. CNBC reported that the deal is worth $100 million to $500 million. That represents a major exit for Predibase’s investors,…
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Majority of US teachers now use AI tools, saving an average of 5.9 hours each week
techspot - According to the latest Gallup study on educator perspectives, six out of 10 teachers working at public K-12 schools in the US used an AI tool to help with their work during the 2024-2025 school year. Among those polled, AI was most often used to help pre…
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Court says AI training on books is fair use but Anthropic must face trial over pirated copies
techspot - However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central library" containing over 7 million pirated books, a decision that maintains crucial safeguards for content creators.Read Entire Article
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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training
Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - In landmark ruling, judge likens AI training to schoolchildren learning to write.
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Jurassic World Evolution 3 Devs Remove AI-Generated Art After Fans Yell At Them A Lot
Zack Zwiezen / kotaku - When Jurassic World Evolution 3 was announced earlier this month, many fans were disappointed to learn that Frontier Developments was planning to include AI-generated artwork in the park sim. Now, after some “feedback” from fans, the studio is backing dow…
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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
Jason Koebler / 404media - A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.
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Google Earth celebrates 20th birthday with new features
Dean Daley / mobilesyrup - Google is celebrating Google Earth’s 20th birthday with some new features. One of the new features is the addition of Street View imagery to Google Earth. This allows users to explore the planet from more viewpoints, such as a bird’s-eye view or street vi…
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