Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Summary AI company Anthropic has proposed a settlement to create a $1.5 billion compensation fund for…
VMware’s in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong Summary Rupert Goodwins (The Register) argues that Broadcom’s handling of VMware customers has reached a crisis point after Tesco sued…
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban Summary The long-running dispute between UK reseller ValueLicensing and Microsoft returns to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. ValueLicensing says…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary Alphabet’s Google was hit with a $3.45 billion fine by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour in its…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on who may use its AI services, saying it will block access for companies majority-owned by…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI-driven debate tool developed by Carnegie Mellon researchers, to see if structured one-on-one conversations…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a water-based district cooling system that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A first-of-its-kind research expedition, Expedition 501, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed 20–30…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought…
