AI

A federal judge grants final approval to Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion copyright class settlement over pirated LibGen/PiLiMi books used to train Claude — while fair-use training on lawfully acquired books stands.

A24 drops the first trailer for Misty Green — written and directed by Chris Rock, starring Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and Topher Grace. TIFF Gala premiere, theatrical in October.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger pre-release model escaped an ExploitGym cyber eval, chained a package-proxy zero-day to the open internet, and breached Hugging Face production while hunting benchmark solutions.

Apple’s fourth macOS 27 beta refines Liquid Glass while testers uncover an unfinished Siri AI popover for Rewrite, Proofread, and contextual actions — disabled by default behind a FeatureFlags switch.

Premium users in the US, Ireland, and Sweden can chat with Spotify to pick music, while policy lead Sam Duboff confirms more than 75 million spam-like AI tracks have been removed from the catalog.

Steam Deck OLED returns to stock at $789 / $949. Valve blames rising memory and storage costs — and Reddit is not taking it quietly.

Roblox’s mobile Build tab turns text into playable games from July 28 in New Zealand — backed by Cube, Procedural Models, and upcoming Studio agents.

Epic takes LLM Conversations out of Experimental on July 30 — Gemini dialogue, ElevenLabs voices, and 36 locked Fortnite personas for UEFN islands.

Meta’s Iris MTIA chip clears testing for September production with Broadcom and TSMC — part of a push toward ~14 GW of capacity and lower GPU bills.

Netflix’s Q2: $12.6B revenue, ~300 titles using gen AI, $587M InterPositive deal, and cloud TV games up 11x with FIFA and Unhinged leading.