Using the text of millions of online books to train its AI models without compensating or acknowledging the books’ authors is “fair use” under U.S. copyright law, according to a 25 June federal court ruling.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jul 1 2025
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OPENAI SNAGS $200-MILLION DEFENSE CONTRACT
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity,” has signed a one-year, $200-million contract with the U.S. defense department to “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the department said in a press announcement.
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SOFTBANK PROPOSES $1-TRILLION AI HUB IN ARIZONA
Softbank Group, Japan’s tech megafunder, is exploring the prospect of a trillion-dollar investment to create an industrial complex in Arizona for building robots and developing advanced AI models.
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AI HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE, NOT A BUG. SO, WHAT TO DO?
AI models are evolving from generative systems that deliver information culled from the Internet to “reasoning” models that mimic some processes of human thought.
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GOT EARWAX? AI WILL TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE PARKINSON’S DISEASE
A Parkinson’s diagnosis often is possible only after a person has lost enough brain function to begin showing symptoms. However, now all you need is earwax, according to researchers at China’s Zhejiang University.
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HACKBOT AUTOMATES CYBERHACKING FOR SELF-DEFENSE
A startup named Xbow has raised $75 million to fund development of a bot that continually tests weaknesses in online systems so the systems’ operators can find and fix them before bad actors do.