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AI Models

Anthropic's $1.5B Piracy Settlement Marks Record Copyright Loss for AI Labs

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in a copyright settlement approved by a federal court in San Francisco. The AI company downloaded books from piracy databases LibGen and PiLiMi between 2021 and 2022. Of roughly 482,460 listed works, 91.3 percent were claimed, netting authors about $3,000 each. Anthropic must destroy the pirated files. The settlement covers piracy, not AI training itself, and a judge previously ruled that training on legally obtained books is fair use.

Jul 223 minNeura News
Funding

Amp Raises $1.3 Billion for Shared AI Compute Pool

Amp, a startup in Menlo Park, California, has secured more than $1.3 billion to build a global pool of specialized computer chips for AI training. Founded by Anjney Midha, the company aims to provide access to computing power for startups, universities, and others excluded by tech giants like Amazon, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator, with partners such as Periodic Labs and ElevenLabs joining the effort.

May 123 minNeura News
Product Launch

NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Adds Open MRC Protocol for AI

NVIDIA has opened Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new RDMA transport protocol optimized for Spectrum-X Ethernet hardware, to the industry via the Open Compute Project. Deployed by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Oracle in major AI factories, MRC improves throughput, load balancing, and availability for large-scale AI training. It enables high GPU utilization by distributing traffic across multiple paths and handles failures in microseconds.

May 64 minNeura News