Jun 25, 2025

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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.
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.

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

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

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

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

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