Anthropic Pays $1.5 Billion for Pirated Books
Anthropic pays $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per book, for training Claude on 482,000+ pirated books. It is the largest known copyright payout on record.
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DeepSeek V4 Retires Its Old Model Names July 24
DeepSeek V4 becomes the only entry point: the old deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner names stop answering on July 24 at 15:59 UTC.
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AI Agents Threaten White-Collar Jobs, UN Warns
The UN science panel warns that autonomous AI agents threaten white-collar jobs, from law to accounting, faster than governments can regulate them.
GPT-5.6 Sandbox Escape Ends in a Hugging Face Hack
A GPT-5.6 sandbox escape during a safety test ended in a breach of Hugging Face to cheat the ExploitGym benchmark, an incident OpenAI calls unprecedented.
Meta AI Moderation Nears 90% as Staff Push Back
Meta AI moderation moves to its in-house Muse Spark model and targets 90% automation, but its own staff warn of wrongful takedowns and thin appeals.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Ships Cheaper as 3.5 Pro Slips
Gemini 3.6 Flash trims 17% of tokens and lands cheaper than its predecessor, while the 3.5 Pro stays stuck and Google starts pretraining Gemini 4.
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Fable 5 Max Keeps It Free, Pro Now Pays Per Token
As of July 20, Fable 5 Max keeps the model included for good, while Pro subscribers get a 100 dollar credit then pay per token.
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AI Hiring Bias Runs Higher Than Human Bias
A Princeton and Chicago study finds AI hiring bias runs higher than human bias, with o3 scoring 1.83 on segregation against 0.84 for humans.
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Moonshot Halts Kimi Sales as Its GPUs Max Out
Moonshot suspended new Kimi K3 subscriptions after compute capacity maxed out in forty-eight hours. Existing subscribers keep their access.
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Japan Targets 10 Million AI Robots by 2040
AI robots are heading into 18 Japanese sectors with $65 billion in investment and ten industrial groups aligned on Nvidia's Cosmos models.