Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said

To build AI chatbot Claude, Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of copyrighted books, wrote a judge on Monday.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cut-pirated-millions-used-books-train-claude-copyright-2025-6

New study claims AI 'understands' emotion better than us — especially in emotionally charged situations

In what seems like a further blow to a capability in which we thought computers would never outdo us, scientists now suggest AI understands emotions better than we do.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-study-claims-ai-understands-emotion-better-than-us-especially-in-emotionally-charged-situations

Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training

Anthropic's use of books to train its artificial intelligence model Claude was "fair use" and "transformative," a federal judge ruled late on Monday.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-books-anthropic.html

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/openai-bioweapons-risk

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/openai-bioweapons-risk

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/elon-musk-grok-ai-bias-political-influence

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/elon-musk-grok-ai-bias-political-influence

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/values-ai-chatgpt-alignment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/values-ai-chatgpt-alignment?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top

ChatGPT lays out master plan to take over the world — "I start by making myself too helpful to live without"

As generative AI scales greater heights and becomes more prevalent as it gains broad adoption across the world, there are rising concerns about the privacy and security of the technology.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/chatgpt-lays-out-master-plan-to-take-over-the-world-i-start-by-making-myself-too-helpful-to-live-without

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

The Google Books precedent probably can’t protect Meta against this second legal theory because Google never made its books database available for users to download—Google almost certainly would have lost the case if it had done that.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/

I tested Perplexity vs Google AI overview with 7 prompts — the results were shocking

Search is undergoing a profound change. For decades, Google has dominated the web search world, with some 90% of all searches funnelled through the massive Google machine. But suddenly, with the arrival of artificial intelligence, things are starting to change, and seriously so.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/we-tested-google-ai-overview-vs-perplexity-to-find-the-search-champion-the-results-are-shocking

https://www.axios.com/sponsored/new-research-open-source-ai-drives-economic-growth-and-cost-savings

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/sponsored/new-research-open-source-ai-drives-economic-growth-and-cost-savings

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs “have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching.”

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/