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Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that someone else was making a claim on their payments. Anthropic settled a copyright class action suit last year, after a judge ruled that training
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IFA Berlin has often been a place to see cutting-edge tech, cool concepts, and interesting prototypes (or should we say weird?). While there certainly have been some of those this year, like iRobot’s Roomba Duo, various humanoid demos, and a flying car concept, 2026 has felt more muted than
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The age of sharing grainy, low-res photos is long behind us. Vadym Plysiuk/Getty Images Having friends or family with different phone brands than your own can lead to all manner of everyday nuisances, from attempts to help navigate unfamiliar settings to coming up short when you need a compatible
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is raising money again. The figure that travelled around the internet last week was the wrong one. The Information broke the story on 3 September. Its current version puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn, on a pre-money valuation of at least $40bn. Accel,
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Nvidia sells the chips that the AI industry runs on. It now also owns $99bn of the industry. The figure sits in the company’s own quarterly filing. CNBC’s Kai Nicol-Schwarz pulled it out. Nvidia equity investments stood at $99bn as of 26 July. A year earlier the figure
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The company hopes to have an even better “automated AI researcher” by March 2028. Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Just a day after acknowledging another incident of "misalignment," OpenAI announced that it has reached its goal of developing an "automated research intern." According to a post on its
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HBO Max is home to dozens of great series that are part of the prestige TV canon. Shows such as Succession, Game of Thrones and The White Lotus have earned respect from fans and critics alike, but the platform is constantly serving up new options to the streaming masses. The
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Isar Aerospace gives the continent more options to “buy European” for space launches. by Terrence O'Brien Sep 6, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC Image: Isar Aerospace Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Looking at you, gamers. Dontree_M/Shutterstock New iPhones are on the way, and upgrading can be tempting — especially with Apple's first foldable phone on the way. But picking the right model is about more than just choosing between shades of space gray. Storage matters too, and choosing
