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Anthropic Paid 1.3 Billion Euros for Pirated Books: The Biggest Copyright Settlement Bought Silence, Not Justice

500,000 books, 3,000 dollars per work, and not a single binding precedent. The biggest settlement in the history of American...

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France put 100 million into free AI for everyone: while Silicon Valley sells, Paris wants to give something back to the public

Every big AI system today belongs to a private company. A nonprofit out of Paris wants to change that -...

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Nolan on AI: „a Trojan horse everyone knows the Greeks are inside“ - why the skepticism is healthy

The Oscar-winning director says skepticism toward artificial intelligence is healthy - and that the motives of those offering it to...

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A 6,300-Euro Luxury Phone With an AI Agent That Makes Its Own Mistakes: You Pay More for Less

Vertu sells a foldable phone wrapped in calf leather for 6,880 dollars and promises an AI agent that will organise...

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A 960-Kilometre Road Trip Proves That Charging an Electric Car Is No Longer a Pain

Every driver's biggest fear - what if I run out of charge halfway - is quietly fading. In three years...

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Apple and Google Forced to Pull the Apps That „Undress" Women: The Privacy Guardians Stayed Silent for Years

Apps that use AI to strip the clothes off any photo sat in the two giants' stores for years. Moderation...

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A Three-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor Startup Is Worth 6 Billion: Not for the Climate, but for the Electricity to Feed AI

Valar Atomics tripled in value in four months, with Sequoia leading the round. The reactors are real, but what carries...

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Amazon's Robotaxi Was Baffled by Wildfire Smoke: All 105 Vehicles Recalled After the Car Didn't Know What Every Driver Knows

Zoox's autonomous vehicle stopped in the middle of an active firefighting operation because it failed to recognise thick smoke. The...

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Google Puts Digital Doubles Into the Office Suite: Sora Died for This, but This One Comes Wearing a Tie

OpenAI killed Sora because the world supposedly wasn't ready for videos of other people's faces. Google is shipping the same...

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Roblox Launched a Game-Making Machine You Run With One Typed Line: Half the Trade Says It Is Hurting Them

The company that just automated game-making used the phrase AI slop in its own defence. And 52 percent of the...

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Period-Tracking App Promises Privacy, Then Ships Your Data Out: Birth Date, Contraception, Symptoms

„Your data is private. Period.” says the website. Mozilla researchers cracked open the app's traffic and found an analytics firm...

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Murati releases an open AI model in nine months: the model isn't the best, and that's the whole point

The former OpenAI tech chief showed what she's been building behind closed doors. An open model that companies fine-tune themselves...

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