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Elvis Presley Estate Sues Anthropic Over AI Training; Germany and Nvidia Announce $10B AI Plan

The Elvis Presley estate is suing Anthropic for $41 million, alleging unauthorized use of 274 songs for AI training, potentially setting a legal precedent. Germany and Nvidia have committed nearly $10 billion to advance AI in manufacturing, raising concerns about reliance on US chip suppliers. Meta and X are ordered to report on posts related to Brazilian politicians every six hours to combat misinformation.

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Last 24 hours · 4 mins · 20 stories · 90 sources in 12 languages

Top stories

  1. Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over AI training on 274 songs yahoo.com and 4 more
  2. Germany and Nvidia advance AI for factories with near $10B Europe-wide plan linkedin.com and 6 more
  3. TSE orders Meta and X to report Nikolas and Marçal posts every six hours until second round g1.globo.com and 5 more
  4. Block debuts Dessa, a voice AI trained only on human speech with full-duplex dialogue mashable.com and 5 more
  5. Sweden blocks ChatGPT and Claude on government devices; Copilot remains approved decrypt.co and 2 more
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Question of the day

Why target 274 specific Elvis songs instead of suing over Anthropic’s entire training corpus? Copyright suits pick a tight set of “clean-title” works because proving ownership + copying at work-level is tractable; attacking a whole corpus multiplies proof burdens.

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