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Anthropic has reached a landmark one-point-five billion dollar copyright settlement, now formally approved by the courts. The deal closes one chapter in the legal battle over using copyrighted works to train AI models, but it resolves almost nothing about the broader practice — expect more cases ahead.
On the surveillance front, the ACLU is accusing license plate camera company Flock Safety of repeatedly lying to city councils, police departments, and the public about how its technology works and what data it collects. It's a serious credibility blow for a company that has quietly expanded into hundreds of American cities, raising hard questions about who holds these systems accountable.
And in what may be the week's most striking scientific story, AI has apparently disproved the Jacobian Conjecture — a major unsolved problem in mathematics. Anthropic's system reportedly found a counterexample that human mathematicians had chased for decades. It's a genuine milestone, though mathematicians are rightly urging careful verification before the champagne comes out.
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