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Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over AI copyright infringement
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property theft involving "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works. The companies are seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance where copyright management information was stripped. The lawsuit is notably broad and focuses heavily on accusations of illegal piracy.
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Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
Nvidia's dominance in AI is increasingly extending beyond its flagship GPUs, with the new generation of data center systems gaining efficiency through smarter network traffic control rather than simply adding more processor power. This shift signals a broader strategic expansion for Nvidia as AI infrastructure evolves.
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Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande, who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice to found the smaller AI-native fund VZVC, explains why biology is transitioning from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one. He argues that open, shared datasets — rather than walled-off proprietary ones — are key to letting AI truly transform medicine, even as clinical trials remain brutally expensive.
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Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
As generative AI audio tools grow more sophisticated, the internet is increasingly flooded with AI-generated music that algorithmically derives melodies and vocals from human artists' work. Some musicians have begun actively investigating and exposing creators who use AI tools while falsely claiming their work is human-made.
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