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Elvis Presley's rightsholders are suing Anthropic over 274 songs they say were used for training, and OpenAI and Anthropic have cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months.

Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs · nytimes.com
They say the songs were used to train Anthropic's models and are seeking more than $41M, and Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself.

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months · minimaxir.com
The post asks why the two labs dropped prices so fast, and it drew 307 comments on Hacker News.

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs at skin cancer diagnosis · lynchlab.net
A decade-old convolutional neural network beat today's frontier LLMs at diagnosing skin cancer, and the post reached 553 points on Hacker News.

IBM's CEO says open-weight models are now good and cheap to run on-prem · theregister.com
He says open models are now good enough and cheap enough to run on your own hardware.

r/opensource bans projects that use or are made by AI · theverge.com
The new rules also exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, so check them before you post a project there.

Musk says SpaceX closed a $40B debt deal for AI chips, though talks are ongoing · bloomberg.com
He also said debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center companies and that 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation".

AI spending fears hang over Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft earnings this week · bloomberg.com
All three are expected to report double-digit revenue gains as investors grow impatient for returns on AI capex.

Data center tenants now demand $5M+ a day in late-delivery fees · theinformation.com
The going rate was $1M in spring 2026, and brokers like Marsh now sell "delay-in-delivery" insurance to cover it.

China approves VW and Xpeng to trial self-driving systems on public roads · bloomberg.com
Bloomberg reads the approvals as a renewed push by Chinese authorities for larger-scale deployment.

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