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A federal judge has approved Anthropic's one point five billion dollar settlement with authors who sued over the use of their work to train Claude. It's the largest copyright settlement in AI history, and it signals that the legal reckoning over training data isn't just theoretical anymore — it has a price tag.
Meanwhile, the United States Army is confronting a surprisingly mundane problem with its AI ambitions: it's running out of tokens. Soldiers received an email asking them to slow their AI usage after consumption outpaced allocation. It's a reminder that even military-grade technology rollouts are subject to the same budgetary friction as any office software subscription.
And in the UK, the political architecture around technology is shifting. Kanishka Narayan has been elevated to attend cabinet as AI minister, but the standalone technology secretary role has been scrapped in Prime Minister Burnham's government reshuffle. Whether concentrating AI focus while dissolving the broader tech department is a sharpening of priorities or a narrowing of vision remains an open question.
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