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Three major publishers have filed suit against Google, alleging the company used their copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems without permission or compensation. It's the latest front in a widening legal battle as media companies push back against how AI firms have built their foundational models.
Meanwhile, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is making headlines with a bold claim — that artificial general intelligence is just a few years away and will prove more transformative than electricity or fire. He's also calling for a new United States standards body to evaluate frontier AI models before they reach the public, a proposal that signals growing pressure on the industry to self-regulate before governments step in.
On the hardware side, the United States government has quietly approved Chinese telecom giant ZTE to purchase Nvidia H-two-hundred chips, placing the company alongside Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance in accessing that coveted Hopper architecture. It's a notable softening in the ongoing chip tensions between Washington and Beijing, suggesting trade negotiations may be producing more flexibility than the headlines typically suggest.
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