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A federal judge says training AI on copyrighted works is ‘fair use,’ but casts doubt on use of pirated materials thumbnail
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A federal judge says training AI on copyrighted works is ‘fair use,’ but casts doubt on use of pirated materials

Training AI on books Anthropic bought is okay, but downloading pirated ones is not, judge says. A federal judge in San Francisco has...

NATO leaders want to appease Trump, but spending billions more on the defense alliance ‘would be just crazy for Europeans,’ foreign policy expert says thumbnail
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NATO leaders want to appease Trump, but spending billions more on the defense alliance ‘would be just crazy for Europeans,’ foreign policy expert says

The spending target the military alliance just agreed on is unlikely to be met by all countries, but experts say some members are...

A $650 Theragun massager is the crux of an alleged multimillion broken promise between two former friends — ‘Dude, my heart just sank to the floor’ thumbnail
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A $650 Theragun massager is the crux of an alleged multimillion broken promise between two former friends — ‘Dude, my heart just sank to the floor’

A lawsuit in California is seeking damages from Therabody and a correction to two patents held by the company. The high-end fitness recovery...

Defense Department intelligence report suggests U.S. strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months thumbnail
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Defense Department intelligence report suggests U.S. strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months

The White House strongly pushed back on the DIA assessment, calling it “flat-out wrong”—“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on how he shrugged off Trump’s accusations thumbnail
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Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on how he shrugged off Trump’s accusations

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady talks to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan....

Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing thumbnail
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Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing

LOS ANGELES DAILY provides reliable, free, up-to-the-minute syndicated news to any media publication. LOS ANGELES DAILY is a network member of the Associated...

The cracks in the OpenAI&Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening thumbnail
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The cracks in the OpenAI&Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

LOS ANGELES DAILY provides reliable, free, up-to-the-minute syndicated news to any media publication. LOS ANGELES DAILY is a network member of the Associated...

Spotify’s Daniel Ek just bet bigger on Helsing, Europe’s defense tech darling thumbnail
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Spotify’s Daniel Ek just bet bigger on Helsing, Europe’s defense tech darling

Money Spotify’s Daniel Ek just led a €600 million investment in Helsing, a four-year-old, Munich-based defense tech company that is now valued at...

Google to scale up AI&powered fraud detection and security operations in India thumbnail
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Google to scale up AI&powered fraud detection and security operations in India

Money Google has unveiled its Safety Charter in India, which will expand its AI-led developments for fraud detection and combating scams across the...

‘One person’s pessimism is another person’s opportunity’: Inside Blackstone’s $500 billion bet on Europe thumbnail
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‘One person’s pessimism is another person’s opportunity’: Inside Blackstone’s $500 billion bet on Europe

As Steve Schwarzman braces to dethrone Warren Buffett as the longest-running Fortune 500 CEO, he and other Blackstone execs talk about the asset...