This Week’s News

  1. Anthropic announces that China used their Claude model to hack into 30 organizations world wide. [Link]

  2. Some CEOs of AI companies are worried about valuation bubbles but also tout longer term benefits of AI. [Link]

  3. Google Deepmind’s Dennis Hassabis predicts AI could help cure all diseases within a decade. [Link]

  4. A court in Germany ruled against OpenAI in a music copyright battle, stating that OpenAI violated copyright law. [Link]

  5. OpenAI has released its latest version of GPT, GPT-5.1. [Link]

  6. Russia’s humanoid robot revolution is off to a rocky start. [Link]

  7. The Disney+ channel is considering allowing users to create their own content via AI and show it on their channel. [Link]

  8. Montana becomes the first U.S state to enshrine “the right to compute” into law, giving citizens the right to own and use AI tools. [Link]

  9. Movie stars Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have signed a voice deal with AI company ElevenLabs. [Link]

  10. Microsoft and Google will spend 16 billion USD on an AI data center based in Portugal. [Link]

  11. New Mexico announces a new AI powered wildfire monitoring tool. [Link]

  12. Chinese company World Labs releases its first freemium LLM, Marble. [Link]

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