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Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the […]

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Australia sets up a national Office of AI

Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […]

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Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI

While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are still drafting their first AI strategy. Abu Dhabi is running on one. […]

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CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market

Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, Reuters reported on […]

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Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […]

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ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors

High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel’s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. […]

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Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn

Stripe and Advent International have offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, a bid that values the payments company at more than $53bn and arrives backed by about $50bn in committed financing from banks, according to Reuters. The buyers would hold equal stakes in the business and, unusually for a proposal with a private […]

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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […]

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