NVIDIA announced a strategic $2 billion investment in AI cloud provider Nebius Group, partnering to develop hyperscale AI factories and deploy over 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA computing capacity by 2030 to meet surging global AI demand.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Stephen Thaler's appeal in Thaler v. Perlmutter, definitively upholding the DC Circuit's ruling that AI systems cannot be recognized as authors under the 1976 Copyright Act. The decision closes the door on Thaler's years-long effort to secure copyright protection for artwork autonomously generated by his 'Creativity Machine' AI, reinforcing that human authorship remains a bedrock legal requirement for intellectual property protection.
Anthropic has unveiled the Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark that merges three research teams to study AI's large-scale societal, economic, and security implications. The launch coincides with Anthropic's opening of a Washington D.C. office and its ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon, signaling the company's push to establish itself as a credible public-benefit AI organization ahead of a planned IPO.
Nvidia disclosed a $26 billion plan to build open-weight AI models, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, while simultaneously launching Nemotron 3 Super — a 120B-parameter open model delivering 5x higher throughput for agentic AI systems.
The US military leveraged Anthropic's Claude AI combined with Palantir's Maven Smart System for real-time targeting and prioritization during its attack on Iran, striking over 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of the operation.
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense after it was designated a 'supply chain risk' for refusing to drop AI safety guardrails, drawing amicus support from 37 top researchers and backing from Microsoft.
