A federal judge has granted final approval of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with a group of authors and publishers who sued the AI company over copyright infringement. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin signed off on the settlement Monday, following preliminary approval issued last year by Judge William Alsup, who has since retired. The settlement, believed to be…

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Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup, has reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, bringing its total funding to $100 million. The company plans to use the capital to open an office in the Bay Area, positioning itself closer to major AI labs including Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI. Gradium launched out of…

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YouTube has clarified its content monetization policies to more directly address AI-generated “slop” and other low-quality content on the platform. Building on last year’s restrictions targeting mass-produced and repetitive content, the updated guidelines break down “inauthentic content” into three categories that cannot be monetized through the YouTube Partner Program. According to trust and safety chief…

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The rise of Chinese lab Moonshot’s open-weight model Kimi K3 has sparked debate over whether the U.S. government should restrict advanced Chinese AI models, following reports that the Trump administration is considering such a move at the urging of American frontier labs. OpenAI’s Dean W. Ball had suggested regulatory action against open-weight models before retracting…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. What did you get done during the World Cup final? Claude was busy casually taking down a famous 87-year-old math problem with a one-line formula that fit in a single X post. A Fable takedown of the Jacobian conjecture is…

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Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite as new workhorses designed to cut latency and token costs for enterprise AI agents. The economics of running autonomous software agents inside a production environment come down to a fixed equation few vendors advertise directly. A model needs to reason through a multi-step task competently, but…

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You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you look at…

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Bristol Myers Squibb is purchasing an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD built on the chipmaker’s Vera Rubin architecture to support artificial intelligence use across its drug discovery and development operations. The pharmaceutical company said it will be the first life sciences group to acquire a DGX SuperPOD based on Vera Rubin. Nvidia introduced the architecture earlier this…

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Enterprises evaluating Chinese open-weight models this month face a question that has nothing to do with benchmarks: whether using one will still be straightforward in a year. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 arrived on July 16 as the largest open-weight model yet released, and within days it had reopened a policy argument in Washington that had…

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Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, is stepping down as general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded nearly a decade ago, as the firm launches its third fund targeting roughly $200 million. Nilekani will remain involved as the fund’s anchor investor and continue advising the firm and mentoring portfolio companies, according to…

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