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George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as the company seeks to automate its own product development process.

Exclusive: Patents for AI agents are on the rise

Nvidia had the most agentic patent applications in the U.S., followed by Microsoft and Google.

Founders who sold their startup to Cisco raise $34 million to kill IT tickets. Read their new AI startup's pitch deck.

Harmony raised a $34 million round led by Lightspeed. Its founders previously sold their cloud software startup Epsagon to Cisco.

Perplexity's Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents

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Apple launches ‘Upgrade’ program to lease new devices

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Meta pledges to solve AI labeling problems it’s actively exacerbating.

The company has signed a voluntary code to comply with obligations under the EU’s AI Act to mark and label AI-generated content that takes effect on August 2nd. Meta unironically said it wants to help prevent “a growing array of different labels and disclosures” from confusing people and regulators, after launching its own bespoke system this month.

This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing

Weave says it quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid racking up big AI bills from tokenmaxxing.

Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget

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Apple reclaims the title of the most valuable U.S. company

It's another sign that investors are keeping some distance from companies making giant bets on AI infrastructure.

AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough

YOU AIN’T seen nothing yet. Last year America’s biggest technology companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, spent $450bn on infrastructure, much of it to power artificial intelligence. This was just an amuse-bouche. For the main course they will this year spend $900bn on chips, data centres, power and so forth, with a $1.4trn pudding to follow in 2027. To fund this feast they have borrowed more than $400bn this year. The AI capex boom is fast becoming the largest investment surge in history (see chart 1).

ChatGPT now refuses to mimic famous authors.

The OpenAI chatbot has started to push back on requests to copy the writing style of authors like Stephen King and Agatha Christie, saying it can spit out something with similar characteristics, but can’t closely imitate distinctive styles. Those disclaimers could be legally important as OpenAI faces down copyright lawsuits filed by authors.