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A federal judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers, paying roughly $3,000 per work across about 500,000 books used to train Claude. Making it the largest copyright payout in American history and closing a landmark case against the AI company.

Judge Alsup had ruled that training on books counts as fair use, but that downloading and storing over 7 million pirated copies did not. Anthropic settled rather than face a damages trial.

The judge cut plaintiffs' attorney fees to $101 million from the $187.5 million requested. The lawyers still walked away with more than 30,000 authors will collectively see per book.

Google is developing a server chip called Frozen v2 that etches part of Gemini's architecture directly into the silicon, The Information reported, with deployment targeted for 2028.

Engineers project the chip could serve 6 to 10 times more tokens per unit of power than Google's newest TPUs, by cutting the calculations and data movement each response requires.

Google scrapped an earlier version that would have frozen Gemini's weights too, since that chip would only work with one model version. Even the flexible bet assumes today's architecture survives to 2028.

Samsung opened a beta of Health Assistant to eligible US users, an AI chatbot inside Samsung Health that answers questions about your data and suggests lifestyle changes physicians and health coaches reviewed.

The assistant pulls sleep, activity, nutrition, mindfulness, and vitals data from a Galaxy Watch or Ring, then explains how those areas affect each other. It cannot diagnose conditions or recommend treatments.

Samsung asked users this month to approve AI training on their health records or lose cloud sync, then walked it back. Now it wants them to hand over even more.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the US will inspect Chinese open source models for stolen intellectual property and can sanction the companies behind them if it finds evidence.

Bessent told Fox Business the government keeps spotting watermarks from American models inside Chinese ones, and said officials will act on it within days or weeks. He offered no evidence publicly.

The threat centers on distillation, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently called ironic coming from labs that claim fair use rights to train on everyone else's data.

A federal judge issued a 14-day restraining order Monday blocking Paramount Skydance from closing its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, after 12 state attorneys general sued on antitrust grounds.

The states, led by California's Rob Bonta, argue the merger would raise prices and shrink competition for movie theaters, cable distributors, and viewers. The judge set a hearing for August 3.

Paramount had planned to close as early as July 22 and calls the antitrust claims meritless. The states can ask for another pause when this one expires.

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