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A federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval for the settlement, resolving accusations that Anthropic used pirated books to train its Claude model without permission.

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The system features a 72-GPU MI455X configuration with 31.1TB of HBM4 memory, designed to power frontier-model inference on Azure.
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This agreement aims to ensure national security implications are considered before deployment, with an announcement expected before August 1.
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Anthropic settles a $1.5 billion copyright lawsuit, the largest known settlement of its kind

A federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval for the settlement, resolving accusations that Anthropic used pirated books to train its Claude model without permission.

A federal judge in San Francisco granted final approval for the settlement, resolving accusations that Anthropic used pirated books to train its Claude model without permission.

This resolution marks a pivotal moment for the AI industry, setting a precedent for how training data rights will be valued in legal disputes. The $1.5 billion figure underscores the high stakes involved in copyright claims for generative AI, potentially influencing how other labs structure their data licensing agreements moving forward.

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Microsoft becomes the first public customer for AMD’s new Helios rack-scale AI platform, signaling a strategic shift away from Nvidia dominance

The system features a 72-GPU MI455X configuration with 31.1TB of HBM4 memory, designed to power frontier-model inference on Azure.

The system features a 72-GPU MI455X configuration with 31.1TB of HBM4 memory, designed to power frontier-model inference on Azure.

This partnership highlights the growing competition in the AI hardware market as major cloud providers diversify their supply chains to manage costs and capacity constraints. By adopting AMD’s latest rack-scale architecture, Microsoft aims to secure a strategic hedge against Nvidia while accelerating its infrastructure capabilities for large-scale AI workloads.

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AI Weekly
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The White House is finalizing a voluntary framework with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that grants federal agencies a 30-day review window before new frontier models launch

This agreement aims to ensure national security implications are considered before deployment, with an announcement expected before August 1.

This agreement aims to ensure national security implications are considered before deployment, with an announcement expected before August 1.

The framework represents a significant step in regulatory oversight, introducing a mechanism for government agencies to assess safety and security risks without imposing a mandatory federal mandate. While labeled voluntary, the arrangement suggests a pathway for informal pressure mechanisms, such as export controls or launch approvals, to shape the release schedule of the most advanced AI systems.

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