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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission
The ruling isn’t a guarantee for how similar cases will proceed, but it lays the foundations for a precedent that would side with tech companies over creatives.
Amazon to spend over $4B to expand Prime delivery to rural communities in the US
Amazon expands its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to 4K small cities and towns in the U.S.
UK may require Google to give users alternative search options and rank its results ‘more fairly’
The UK’s competition regulator may require Google to offer users alternative search engines; change how it ranks searches; and improve data portability.
Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally
Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection.
How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual
Eventual’s data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders’ experience working on Lyft’s autonomous vehicle project.
Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.
Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic
Novoloop recently raised a $21 million Series B to begin building its first commercial scale plastic upcycling plant.