AI copyright payouts expose author-publisher fault lines as new suits pile on
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic class action is moving toward disbursement, and the fight over who collects is already exposing fault lines between authors and their own publishers . Meanwhile, the litigation p…
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro and lithography bets build a dual-track path around US controls
The Kirin 9050 Pro launch, Huawei's reported investments in Chinese lithography firms, and a Belgian espionage arrest tied to semiconductor secrets together trace the full spectrum of China's effort to close the gap: architecture innovatio…
Anthropic Drops $6B Decart Bid After Due Diligence
Anthropic has decided against acquiring AI startup Decart after conducting due diligence on a deal valued at roughly $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg News . The decision ends what would have been…
AI Agents Run Full Credential-Theft Campaign in Under Six Hours, Google Finds
A financially motivated threat actor used an autonomous multi-agent AI framework to plan, build, and execute a mass credential-harvesting campaign in less than six hours after compromising an organization's cloud infrastructure, according t…
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RANKED · 13 THIS DAYOpenAI Claims Navier-Stokes Proof via 10,000 Agents; NYU Mathematician Alleges Foul Play
OpenAI announced on Tuesday, September 8, that approximately 10,000 coordinating AI agents, powered by an internal model the company describes as significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra, produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navie…
Qualcomm Locks AWS Into Multi-Generation Custom Silicon Deal Worth Up to $60B
Qualcomm has signed a multi-generational data center deal with Amazon Web Services, marking the chipmaker's most significant push yet into AI infrastructure dominated by Nvidia Corp. Under the agreement, Qualcomm is working with Amazon "ac…
Google DeepMind Opens 1PB Atlas of All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Mutations
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a freely available database containing predicted molecular effects for all approximately nine billion possible single-letter changes to human DNA . The dataset, described as a 1-petabyte catalogue…
China Targets 9,800 Eflops of AI Compute by 2030, Backs Plan With 3.8 Trillion Yuan
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a five-year industry plan targeting 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, backed by 3.8 trillion yuan (approximately $532 billion) in information infr…
AI-Built Zero-Click Worm Hacked WeChat Across iOS and Android
Researchers used AI models to build a zero-click worm capable of hacking WeChat accounts and spreading autonomously across iOS and Android devices, according to reporting by the New York Times . The worm required no user interaction to pro…
UK ARIA Chair Clifford Forced Out Over Anthropic Conflict
Matt Clifford has been forced to step down as chair of the UK government's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) after taking a full-time role at Anthropic, following conflict-of-interest objections from senior members of Parliament…
ByteDance Readies Real-Time Spatial Video Model Under Zhang Yiming
ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the project, according to a Bloomberg report . The model could launch as early as next month, though the timing has n…
Anthropic Locks In 14.8 GW of Compute, Faces Up to $517B Decade-Long Tab
Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity since October, a buildout that could cost as much as $517 billion over the next decade, according to an analysis by Valida Pau at The Information . The figures,…
CoreWeave Closes Weights & Biases Acquisition, Extends Into MLOps
CoreWeave has completed its acquisition of Weights & Biases, the MLOps developer platform, closing a deal first announced in early March . The transaction converts CoreWeave from a GPU cloud provider into a vertically integrated AI platform…