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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors. The sum, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, "will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment," the attorneys for the authors wrote.
The settlement also includes a provi
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President Donald Trump said the so-called Department of War branding is to counter the “woke” Department of Defense name. Read more ›
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At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump. Read more ›
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"This, in fact, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations," a DHS official said. Read more ›
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Tesla’s board wants to give Elon Musk an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package. To get all the money, he has to make robots and robotaxis work. Read more ›
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Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay package requires finding a successor, which could be a tall order for a brand so tied to its CEO. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside numerous other tech CEOs.The nearly three dozen CEOs and execs in attendance took turns praising and thanking Trump. But Zuckerberg's comments were especially notable. In one moment that was widely shared on... Read more ›
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A Delaware judge successfully challenged Musk's previous package. The result? It's even easier now for companies to pay execs massive compensation. Read more ›
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The Pentagon called the move, which occurred in international waters, "highly provocative" and said it was meant to interfere with operations. Read more ›
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Donald Trump's Big Tech dinner included guests Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Sam Altman. Let's examine the seating chart. Read more ›
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The White House's least favorite subject just had another viral glowup this week. Read more ›
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In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers […] Read more ›
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Melania Trump, who remained an enigmatic figure during President Donald Trump's first term, continues to keep a low profile during his second. Read more ›
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This is the speaker to get if you want something ultra-portable for all your adventures. Read more ›
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Case will compensate authors but could raise costs of training large language models Read more ›
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Bose has officially unveiled the second generation of its QuietComfort Ultra wireless headphones, as the latest addition to its popular noise-cancelling lineup. While retaining the series' renowned sound quality and industry-leading ANC, the new version also adds audio over USB-C, which was notably missing on the previous generation. They also retain the 2.5mm headphone jack and come with a 2.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable in the box. The new QC... Read more ›
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US officials said a deadly strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean Sea this week marks the start of a new campaign. Read more ›
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Starting today, the Apple Pencil Pro is available in Apple's online refurbished store in the U.S. and Canada, for the first time since the accessory launched in May 2024. In the U.S., the refurbished Apple Pencil Pro is available for $109, down from $129 brand new. That is a roughly 15% discount, which is typical for Apple's refurbished products. At the time of writing this, Amazon is selling the Apple... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report this morning, and the numbers aren’t looking good for the US economy, or President Donald […] Read more ›
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A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science. NPR: The group of climate scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or misrepresented climate science in the agency's report. For instance, in the DOE report the authors claim that rising carbon dioxide can be a... Read more ›
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An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg is suing Meta after his Facebook page was repeatedly shut down for "impersonating" CEO Mark Zuckerberg, despite being his real legal name. TechCrunch reports: Mark Zuckerberg the lawyer uses a commercial Facebook page to advertise his legal practice and communicate with potential clients. But his page has been disabled five times in the last eight years, since Meta's moderation systems flag his account... Read more ›
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"For months, tens of thousands of people around the world have been complaining Meta has been banning their Instagram and Facebook accounts in error..." the BBC reported this month... More than 500 of them have contacted the BBC to say they have lost cherished photos and seen businesses upended — but some also speak of the profound personal toll it has taken on them, including concerns that the police could... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks. The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last year, births outnumbered deaths by 519,000 people. That means any decline... Read more ›
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"I'm still teaching at Princeton," 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey's InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, "showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that turned almost historic..." "Do you think there's any sort of merit to Rust replacing C?" one audience member asked... "Or is this just a huge... Read more ›
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In 2017 Rick Beato streamed "Rick's Rant Episode 2" — and just received a copyright claim this month. Days after jazz pianist Chick Corea died in 2021, Beato livestreamed a half-hour video which was mostly commentary, but with several excerpts from Corea's albums (at least one more than three minutes long). He also received a copyright claim for that one this August — just minutes after the claim on his... Read more ›
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"Typically when something is available to "buy," ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money," writes Ars Technica. "That's not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content." Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the options to "rent" digital content for a few days or to "buy" it. Some might think that picking "buy" means that they can... Read more ›
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Futurism reports: Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. "When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our... Read more ›
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Germany has already met its 2028 goal for reducing coal-fired power generation, so won't need to order the shutdown of any plants for a second year running, the country's regulator said. From a report: Germany has an interim 2028 target of reducing coal-fired power by 8.7 gigawatts, and as of Sept. 1 it had exceeded this level by about 10%, the Federal Network Agency said on its website on Monday.... Read more ›
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Paramount and Activision are teaming up to produce a live-action Call of Duty movie, with Paramount promising the same blockbuster treatment it gave Top Gun: Maverick. David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, said in a statement: "As a lifelong fan of Call of Duty this is truly a dream come true. From the first Allied campaigns in the original Call of Duty, through Modern Warfare and Black Ops, I've... Read more ›
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