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OpenAI to release delayed models Thursday amidst a sea of regulatory confusion
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- July 9, 2026
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As enterprises struggle to manage their AI strategies, the US AI regulatory environment is sending a wide range of contradictory signals. OpenAI’s Wednesday announcement that it will now release GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, on Thursday highlights the confusion. Initially, the US government said that it was asking OpenAI to limit access to […]
Anthropic’s $1.5B piracy settlement with book authors is a record loss that hands AI labs their biggest legal win
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- July 23, 2026
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Anthropic has to pay $1.5 billion to book authors, the largest copyright settlement in class action history. But the payout is for downloading roughly 482,460 works from piracy databases, not for AI training itself. Judge Alsup had previously ruled that AI training on legally obtained books is “transformative” and falls under fair use. The settlement […]
Libraries and museums can now access all Microsoft nonprofit offers
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- June 28, 2026
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We are excited to share Microsoft’s announcement that Libraries are now eligible for NFP Microsoft Cloud licensing. Libraries have always been eligible for donations for their public-access computer needs through the Microsoft nonprofit program at TechSoup New Zealand. For staff needs, however, libraries needed to get Microsoft academic offers for cloud solutions. There was also […]
UAE National AI Strategy 2031: Decoded
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- August 10, 2026
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A policy analysis from July 2026 In October 2017, the United Arab Emirates did something no other government had done before: it created a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence with no other portfolio. Omar Sultan Al Olama took that title at 27 years old, and the strategy his ministry built around him, the National Strategy for […]