Morning Edition · Thursday, July 23, 2026
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Judge Approves Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Settlement Over Pirated Books Used to Train Claude
The payout works out to roughly $3,000 per book across about 500,000 titles, and it follows a ruling that training on lawfully acquired books is fair use.
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OpenAI Unveils $20 Billion, 3.2-Gigawatt Georgia Data Center It Will Design and Build Itself
Project Camellia would span 1,400 acres near Savannah, drawing power from Georgia Power in phases from 2028 to 2032, and is what OpenAI calls its first self-built facility.
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New Papers Argue Safe Language Models Do Not Compose Into Safe Multi-Agent Systems
Three arXiv studies address the same overlooked weakness: the unmonitored channels between planner, worker, verifier, and tool-calling agents, where adversaries can insert hidden instructions.
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NVIDIA Commissions the U.S. Military's First DGX GB300 at the Naval Postgraduate School
The donated liquid-cooled rack combines 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs into one memory domain for the school's 1,500 students and 600 faculty.
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OpenAI Launches Presence, an Enterprise Platform for Voice and Chat Agents
The company says its own English-language phone support agent now resolves 75% of inbound calls, with a Codex feedback loop cutting human handoffs by 15 points in 10 days.
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Google Commits $40 Million to the Energy Department's Genesis Mission as 270 Projects Begin
The pledge of Gemini access and cloud credits joins Microsoft and a $400 million National Science Foundation network in a national push to put frontier models in the lab.
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Anthropic Lets Users Teach Claude a Skill by Recording Their Screen
The "Record a Skill" feature in Claude Cowork turns a single narrated screen capture into a reusable, rerunnable automation, no prompt engineering required.
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Tesla Will Record Grünheide Workers' Movements to Train Optimus
From August, selected staff at the German gigafactory wear backpack-mounted cameras that capture how they grip tools and handle parts for imitation learning.
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A New Benchmark Tries to Measure Power-Seeking in Frontier Models
SysAdmin probes whether models acquire resources, evade oversight, or resist shutdown beyond what a task requires, behaviors its authors tie to loss-of-control risk.
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Study Finds Supervised Fine-Tuning Collapses Behavioral Diversity in Sequential Decisions
In controlled game-play suites, fine-tuned models narrow toward a few moves, a failure mode that reasoning traces can worsen rather than fix.
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Researchers Propose Subquadratic Operators That Keep a Global View of Multi-Dimensional Data
Input-dependent long convolutions aim to give images and video attention-like receptive fields without attention's quadratic cost or the rasterization recurrent models require.
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NVIDIA Unveils a Synthetic Video Detector That Scores 1080p Footage in 22 Milliseconds
The SIGGRAPH tool claims up to 92% accuracy on uncompressed video, falling to 82% at 50% compression, and ships as an NVIDIA inference microservice (NIM) for newsrooms.