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The government is trying to decide whether copyrighted material can be used to train AI algorithms.
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-NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that this "marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun."

-Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, just announced a new single-board computer that marries AI with robotics.

-OpenAI's robotics hardware lead is out. Caitlin Kalinowski, who oversaw hardware within the robotics division of OpenAI, posted on X that she was resigning from her role, while criticizing the company's haste in partnering with the Department of Defense without investigating proper guardrails.
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New 'Transparency Tags' allow record labels to show that music was made with the help of AI.
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-The UK government is working on a controversial data bill that would allow AI companies like Google and OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted materials without consent.

-Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action is legally sound,” and that his company sees “no choice” but to challenge it in court.

-Meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising related to its AI glasses following reports about the company's use of human contractors to review footage captured from users' glasses.
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Some of these changes were proposed as part of its settlement with Epic.
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