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Writers say HarperCollins and others are claiming shares of the $1.5B fund on books whose rights reverted years ago.

The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.

Tata Consultancy Services' infrastructure arm is placing one of India's largest bets yet on domestic AI compute capacity.

The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.

Two more regional US newspapers join the growing list of publishers taking OpenAI and Microsoft to court over training data.
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OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.
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