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A US federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement between Anthropic and thousands of authors for using unauthorized books to train its Claude chatbot, paying about $3,000 per book. The ruling also noted that training AI with books may be fair use, but acquiring data via piracy is not.
A US federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement between Anthropic and thousands of authors for using unauthorized books to train its Claude chatbot, paying about $3,000 per book. The ruling also noted that training AI with books may be fair use, but acquiring data via piracy is not.
Oracle warns in its annual report that if key clients like OpenAI fail to pay or renew contracts, its heavily customized AI data centers face serious asset write-down risks. Despite a 35% stock drop in June and growing Wall Street doubts, Oracle continues aggressive investment to capture AI cloud market share. The 30 billion Stargate deal with OpenAI is a focal point of risk.
Oracle warns in its annual report that if key clients like OpenAI fail to pay or renew contracts, its heavily customized AI data centers face serious asset write-down risks. Despite a 35% stock drop in June and growing Wall Street doubts, Oracle continues aggressive investment to capture AI cloud market share. The 30 billion Stargate deal with OpenAI is a focal point of risk.
NVIDIA open-sourced Polar, a reinforcement learning training framework that integrates existing code agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code into GRPO training without modifying original code. It treats model API boundaries as training entry points, enabling black-box interception and trace reconstruction. In SWE-Bench tests, Codex pass@1 jumped from 3.8% to 26.4%. Training wall clock time shortened 5.39x with GPU utilization rising from 20.4% to 87.7%.
NVIDIA open-sourced Polar, a reinforcement learning training framework that integrates existing code agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code into GRPO training without modifying original code. It treats model API boundaries as training entry points, enabling black-box interception and trace reconstruction. In SWE-Bench tests, Codex pass@1 jumped from 3.8% to 26.4%. Training wall clock time shortened 5.39x with GPU utilization rising from 20.4% to 87.7%.
Google's Gemini app surges in popularity after launching Nano Banana image editor, reaching No. 1 on US App Store with 12.6M Sept downloads (up 45% MoM). It generated $1.6M in August revenue (1,291% YoY growth) as users create and share AI-edited images. ChatGPT remains top on Google Play.
Google's Gemini app surges in popularity after launching Nano Banana image editor, reaching No. 1 on US App Store with 12.6M Sept downloads (up 45% MoM). It generated $1.6M in August revenue (1,291% YoY growth) as users create and share AI-edited images. ChatGPT remains top on Google Play.
Augment, founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish Abbott, raises $85M Series A for its AI assistant Augie, which automates freight logistics tasks like tracking shipments and invoicing. The startup, backed by Redpoint and others, aims to expand its team and features, already reducing invoice delays by 40% for clients like Armstrong Transport. Competitors include Vooma and FleetWorks.
Augment, founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish Abbott, raises $85M Series A for its AI assistant Augie, which automates freight logistics tasks like tracking shipments and invoicing. The startup, backed by Redpoint and others, aims to expand its team and features, already reducing invoice delays by 40% for clients like Armstrong Transport. Competitors include Vooma and FleetWorks.
