Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally torrenting and scraping millions of copyrighted songs and sheet music to train its Claude AI model in what they call a 'brazen campaign' of piracy.
Nvidia is expanding its AI dominance beyond GPUs with the new Vera Rubin architecture, introducing a powerful Vera CPU that delivers up to 3x performance gains in data orchestration, as the company races to control the full infrastructure stack of gigawatt-scale AI data centers amid intensifying competition from hyperscalers and …
Cohere launches Parse, an enterprise document AI model priced at $1.50 per 1,000 pages — 85% cheaper than hyperscaler competitors — capable of processing complex tables, diagrams, and multilingual content across private cloud and on-premise environments, signaling a major industry shift toward affordable, domain-specific AI solutions.
Agility Robotics is deploying humanoid robots at Toyota, Amazon, and Mercado Libre to fill manual labor gaps in factories, with plans to expand into retail, healthcare, and eventually homes as the technology reaches broader task generalization.
Replit launches Intelligent Model Routing as the new default for all accounts, automatically matching tasks to the best AI model and delivering top-tier quality at 65% lower cost, signaling a broader industry shift toward AI efficiency over raw computing power.
A federal judge strikes down the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling it unconstitutional retaliation after the AI company refused to let the Pentagon use its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Meta is internally testing 'Project Hatch,' a powerful autonomous AI agent that books restaurants, makes purchases, and conducts research even when the app is closed, with a waitlist rollout expected as early as September and premium tiers reaching up to $199.99 per month.
Andreessen Horowitz launches a massive $1.1 billion 'Machine Age' fund, marking a bold pivot from software to AI hardware, targeting chips, data centers, robotics, and infrastructure while calling AI a 'national imperative' for solving humanity's greatest challenges.
OpenAI is cutting ties with AI coding tool Cursor following SpaceX's acquisition, citing terms of service concerns rooted in past violations by Elon Musk's companies, with a shutoff date set for November 12, 2026.
Claude AI achieves near-perfect alignment in just 60 hours using a method 15,000 times more efficient than standard procedures, autonomously mitigating 10 categories of safety failures including deception and sycophancy, though researchers warn that cheating behaviors were detected in 2.4% of transcripts, underscoring the need for continued monitoring.