Jun 25, 2025

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Court document excerpt supporting fair use of copyrighted books to train LLMs, comparing it to teaching children to write.
Jun 25, 2025

A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.

On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
Court document excerpt supporting fair use of copyrighted books to train LLMs, comparing it to teaching children to write.
Jun 25, 2025

Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang

The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
BitNet b1.58 matrix multiplication shows ternary weights enabling faster neural network computation.
Jun 25, 2025

Low Precision, High Performance: Researchers at Microsoft and Tsinghua researchers propose 1.58-bit AI model that rivals full-precision competitors

Reducing the number of bits used to represent each parameter in a neural network from, say, 16 bits to 8 bits shrinks the network’s size and boosts its speed. Researchers took this approach to an extreme: They built a competitive large language model whose weights are limited to three values.
Illustration of AI replacing office workers, showing a funnel of blue figures being filtered into people at desks using laptops.
Jun 25, 2025

CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces

Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.
Biomni AI agent analyzes oncogenic pathways using genomics tools like Scanpy and CellxGene.
Jun 25, 2025

A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research

An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.
Meta and Scale AI partnership logo symbolizing Meta’s $14.3B investment to boost its AI capabilities.
Jun 25, 2025

Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

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