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Anthropic Wins Legal Battle over AI Copyright

Last year, writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic, alleging it trained its Claude AI models on pirated books. Now, a federal judge has ruled that Anthropic’s use of those copyrighted works qualifies as fair use, even though the books were obtained without the authors’ permission. The judge described the training process as “exceedingly transformative,” likening it to an aspiring writer learning by reading. This is the first major court decision to support AI companies’ fair use claims in model training. However, the court will still hold a trial to examine Anthropic’s alleged creation of a “central library” containing millions of pirated books — a key issue that could determine damages related to the illegal acquisition and storage of that material (read more).

OpenAI’s Mystery AI Device Finally Surfaces

Speculation has swirled since 2023 about a secretive collaboration between OpenAI and former Apple design chief Jony Ive to create the ultimate AI hardware device. Details remained tightly sealed for over a year, but a recent court filing has begun to shed light on the project. According to the documents, OpenAI and Ive’s startup, io Products, are developing a mysterious AI-powered device that isn’t a wearable or in-ear product. Despite deep research into headphone tech—including testing over 30 headsets and a custom earpiece from rival startup iyO—the prototype remains neither wearable nor finalized. It’s still at least a year from launch (read more).

Grok Steps Into the Productivity Arena

Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, is reportedly developing a powerful new file editor for its chatbot Grok, complete with spreadsheet support and real-time AI assistance. Leaked code shared by app researcher Nima Owji shows that users will be able to edit documents while interacting with Grok simultaneously. This move signals xAI’s growing ambition to challenge OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in the productivity tools space. The feature follows April’s launch of Grok Studio and Workspaces, hinting at a broader strategy to build an all-in-one AI workspace (read more).

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🧠 Can AI Learn to Understand Our Emotions? AI’s next frontier isn’t just logic — it’s empathy. Intel and the open-source group LAION have launched EmoNet, a toolset that reads emotions from voice and facial data, aiming to build AI that can understand and reason about human feelings. With top models already outperforming humans on emotional IQ tests, the race is on to create AI that understands us, not just answers us (see LAION’s announcement).

🤖 AI-Powered Robots Go Offline: Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics On-Device, an AI model that runs directly on robots without internet access. It powers motion control in robots like Franka FR3 and Apollo, rivals cloud models in performance, and lets developers train robots using natural language (see Google’s announcement).

💰 Andy Konwinski Launches $100M AI Institute: Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski has pledged $100 million to launch the Laude Institute, a nonprofit initiative backing foundational AI research. Its first move: supporting a new AI-focused lab at UC Berkeley. The goal is to steer AI toward more human-beneficial outcomes (see Konwinski’s announcement).

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