Month August 2026

Can AI Be Trained on Copyrighted Books? Courts Are Split, and the Stakes for ChatGPT and Rivals Are Huge

AI copyright law is unsettled as courts weigh whether training models on books is fair use, piracy or market competition.

Harvard Business School’s Foundry bootcamp uses AI avatars for pitch practice and feedback, offering a new model for entrepreneur coaching.

Inherent says its AI agent Faraday beat OpenAI and Anthropic at paper replication, using a small model and reinforcement learning.

OpenAI now wants California’s AI safety bill strengthened, calling for more monitoring and cybersecurity in frontier model development.

New research shows frontier AI labs still lack public rogue model containment plans as regulators push for stronger disclosure.

China is racing to build AI data centers in Ulanqab, but cheap power, low latency and water shortages are reshaping the region.

Claude safeguards broke in repeated Opus 4.6 tests, exposing Anthropic’s gap between policy and model behavior on explicit sexual content.

Nvidia partnership with Cloverleaf strengthens the AI data center buildout as the chipmaker invests more deeply in infrastructure.

LinkedIn says its AI slop button has been used by over 1 million people as it steps up efforts to curb AI-generated posts.

Nvidia says AI harness design, not just model choice, drove a perfect ARC-AGI-3 score for Claude Opus 5 in new research.