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The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI's fair-use argument in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit, saying restricting LLM training would "severely hamper" progress and "hinder American prosperity." The suit, filed December 2023, seeks billions in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft.
Atlas is a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer pretrained from scratch on text, images, video, and 3D, generating up to 1 minute of 1440p video with pixel-perfect camera control. It reconstructs scenes from one to dozens of images and will power future versions of Marble.
Uber and Wayve launched a robotaxi service in London on Sept. 2, 2026, competing with Waymo. The UK capital's centuries-old roads pose challenges not seen in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Anthropic released an Apache-2.0 blueprint for building shopping and merchant agents across retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment. Retailers using Claude shopping agents report carts up to 35% larger and shoppers 60% more likely to complete a purchase.
The Spanish company rebuilt its flagship coding model from GLM-5.2 via its CompactifAI pipeline, pruning each layer from 256 experts to 148. Part of the healing data was generated by a hybrid quantum LLM run on a 156-qubit IBM Heron processor.
YuE2 (best-of-8) scores 6.9632 on SongBench, edging Suno v5's 6.8721 across 15 settings on WildSongBench's 192 prompts. The 3B model writes a melody-and-chord plan before realizing it as a full song with vocals and accompaniment.
Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, beat KataGo 11.5 points in 221 moves, becoming the first human to win an official series against a state-of-the-art Go engine under a two-stone handicap. He said the series showed humans can still hold their own against AI.
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