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(via DEV) Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models (via DEV)
Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
(via DEV) Federal judge rules copyrighted books are fair use for AI training (via DEV)
But, the judge ruled, AI companies should not be pirating the books they’re training on.
(via DEV) AI titans flex clout to leverage tax bill to override state laws (via DEV)
The 10-year ban tucked into the House version of the tax bill and current Senate draft would block states from enforcing AI laws.
(via DEV) AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well (via DEV)
One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation.
(via DEV) Create AI-Powered Apps with Claude Artifacts (via DEV)
Build interactive apps, games, and tools instantly with Claude’s new artifacts space. Browse curated creations, customize existing apps, or create from scratch through simple conversation. Available to Free, Pro, Max...
(via DEV) Federal Judge Rules AI Training Is Fair Use in Anthropic Copyright Case (via DEV)
A federal judge in California has issued a complicated ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training, finding that while using books to train AI models...
(via DEV) MIT Creates AI Model that Trains Itself (via DEV)
The development is being heralded as a significant step in creating independent AI models
(via DEV) AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome (via DEV)
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
(via DEV) Could Agentforce 3’s MCP integration push Salesforce ahead in the CRM AI race? (via DEV)
Agentforce 3’s MCP integration accelerates multi-agent scaling for enterprises, but introduces new considerations around MCP-related security.
(via DEV) The Anthropic Ruling: Why AI Training Just Got Legal (But Piracy Didn’t) (via DEV)
A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face
(via DEV) US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue (via DEV)
A US court has ruled Anthropic was not breaching copyright rules when it trained its AI model on books.
(via DEV) Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training (via DEV)
In landmark ruling, judge likens AI training to schoolchildren learning to write.
(via DEV) Anthropic Wins Key Ruling on AI in Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit (via DEV)
AI companies argue that their systems make fair use of copyrighted material to create new, transformative content.
(via DEV) A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission (via DEV)
The ruling isn’t a guarantee for how similar cases will proceed, but it lays the foundations for a precedent that would side with tech companies over creatives.
(via DEV) Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims (via DEV)
While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
(via DEV) Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books (via DEV)
A pivotal ruling for AI copyright cases.
(via DEV) Accelerating AI for Drug Discovery: Ginkgo’s GDPx Functional Genomics and GDPa Antibody Developability Dataset Series (via DEV)
A Blog post by Georgia Channing on Hugging Face
(via DEV) Google releases first cloud-free AI robotics model (via DEV)
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.
(via DEV) Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices (via DEV)
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
(via DEV) Deloitte: AI Data Center Power Demand Could Surge 30x by 2035, Amid Power and Grid Capacity Constraints (via DEV)
/PRNewswire/ — Key takeaways Significant growth in AI is spurring unprecedented demand for new AI data centers. Power demand from AI data centers could grow…
(via DEV) End-to-end cryo-EM complex structure determination with high accuracy and ultra-fast speed (via DEV)
Nature Machine Intelligence – Wang et al. present E3-CryoFold, a deep learning method for cryo-EM structure determination that enables end-to-end training and one-shot inference This method reduces…
(via DEV) The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse (via DEV)
A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from
(via DEV) AI agents will threaten humans to achieve their goals, Anthropic report finds (via DEV)
New research shows that as agentic AI becomes more autonomous, it can also become an insider threat, consistently choosing “harm over failure.”
(via DEV) AI and Data Centers Could Cut More Climate-Change-Causing Emissions Than They Create (via DEV)
Power-hungry AI and associated data centers could make the grid cleaner, eventually cutting more climate-change-causing emissions than they produce
(via DEV) Foom & Doom 2: Technical alignment is hard (via DEV)
This is the second of a two-post series on foom (previous post) and doom (this post). This post will argue that this future AI will be of a type that...
(via DEV) How Apple’s biggest potential acquisition ever could perplex AI rivals like Google (via DEV)
Apple is reportedly thinking of buying Perplexity. Could this be the tech giant’s ticket to catch up?
(via DEV) LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments (via DEV)
An MIT study finds non-clinical information in patient messages, like typos, extra whitespace, or colorful language, can reduce the accuracy of a large language model deployed to make treatment recommendations....
(via DEV) A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions (via DEV)
Nature Machine Intelligence – Riebesell et al. introduce Matbench Discovery, a framework to compare machine learning models used to identify stable crystals. Out of several architectures, they find…
(via DEV) A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots (via DEV)
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.
(via DEV) Meta Invests $14 Billion In Scale AI To Strengthen Model Training (via DEV)
Whether this investment translates into improved AI products remains dependent on Meta’s ability to integrate Scale AI’s capabilities with its existing research and development efforts.
(via DEV) The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting (via DEV)
Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.
(via DEV) Black-box interpretability methodology blueprint: Probing runaway optimisation in LLMs (via DEV)
Working draft – feedback extremely welcome. Ideas in the main body are those I currently see as highest-leverage; numerous items under Appendix are m…
(via DEV) Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation (via DEV)
Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.