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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• ⚖️ Anthropic Scores a Partial—But Pivotal—'Fair Use' Victory

• 🩺 Microsoft's New AI Out-Diagnoses Doctors in Complex Cases

• 🌐 Baidu Throws Open the Doors to its ERNIE 4.5 AI

• 🔥 4 must-try AI tools transforming everyday tasks

• ⚡️ Quick AI updates you shouldn't miss

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AI FAIR USE

⚖️ Anthropic Scores a Partial—But Pivotal—'Fair Use' Victory

In a landmark case watched closely by the entire tech world, a federal judge handed Anthropic a significant win. The court ruled that training its AI model, Claude, on copyrighted books constitutes "fair use"—but there's a huge catch. This ruling only applies to books Anthropic legally acquired. The company must still face trial in December for allegedly using a massive library of pirated books to build its models.

This decision is a double-edged sword. It suggests that the act of AI training can be seen as transformative, not just copying. However, it also fires a clear warning shot: the source of your training data matters. This nuanced ruling doesn't end the copyright debate, but it does draw a critical line in the sand for how AI companies build their foundational models.

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AI AND MEDICINE

🩺 Microsoft's New AI Out-Diagnoses Doctors in Complex Cases

Is "medical superintelligence" on the horizon? Microsoft just took a giant leap in that direction. The company unveiled a new AI tool, the MAI-DxO, that achieved a stunning 85.5% accuracy rate in diagnosing some of medicine's most complex cases, pulled from the New England Journal of Medicine. For comparison, a panel of experienced human doctors correctly diagnosed the same cases just 20% of the time.

Microsoft is quick to point out this isn't about replacing doctors, but augmenting them. The AI acts like a virtual panel of experts, reasoning through symptoms and even optimizing for cost by avoiding unnecessary tests. While it's still a research project and not yet approved for clinical use, it's a powerful proof-of-concept for how AI could soon help tackle medicine's toughest challenges.

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GLOBAL AI LANDSCAPE

🌐 Baidu Throws Open the Doors to its ERNIE 4.5 AI

Chinese tech giant Baidu is making a major power play by open-sourcing its advanced ERNIE 4.5 family of AI models. This isn't just one model, but a suite of ten different variants, including a massive 424-billion parameter version built on a sophisticated "Mixture-of-Experts" (MoE) architecture.

By releasing the models and their development toolkits under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, Baidu is inviting developers worldwide to build on its platform. This move is a clear strategy to foster a robust ecosystem around its technology, aiming to become the foundational framework for the next wave of AI applications in China and beyond. It’s a bold declaration of intent in the highly competitive global AI race.

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QUICK AND FRESH

🍎 Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri in major reversal

According to Bloomberg, Apple is considering a partnership with Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri, marking a potential landmark shift in its artificial intelligence strategy.

🧠 Mark Zuckerberg Welcomes His New ‘Superintelligence’ Team

Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized Meta's AI teams into a new division called 'Meta Superintelligence Labs,' with the ambitious goal of building 'personal superintelligence for everyone'.

💬 ChatGPT: Everything to know about the AI chatbot

A comprehensive article summarizing everything you need to know about ChatGPT: how it works, its capabilities, and the impact it's having on the world of technology and beyond.

🏢 Mark Zuckerberg forms new ‘superintelligence’ group at Meta to house all AI efforts

The Verge dives deeper into the news of Meta's new 'Superintelligence' group, which will unify all of the company's AI efforts under a single leader to accelerate progress.

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