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The highest court in the land has decided not to hear a case on whether AI-generated art can be copyrighted under U.S. law, as the battle over digital creation continues.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal involving an artist refused copyright for digital art created by a personal AI software. Plaintiff Stephen Thaler filed for copyright of a piece of moving digital art

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One of the wildest stories in tech right now is what's happening at Anthropic. New data from Levels.fyi shows how some employees at this AI startup have

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The indie gaming news has been flying out of Nintendo's event today at a rapid-fire pace. One of the announcements came from rhythm game Ratatan, which will release on July 16. The title will be arriving that day on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It's already been available on PC since September as an early access game. 

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My youngest daughter, Tessa, just accepted an internship with PwC in San Francisco. We're overjoyed she'll be home for a few months after heartlessly leaving us 18 months ago to study accounting at Wake Forest in North Carolina.

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• Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to support its superintelligence push
• The org will have an unusually flat structure, with manager-to-employee ratios of up to 1:50.
• The group will partner with Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Meta is establishing a new applied AI engineering organization designed to accelerate the company's push

• The average price for a gallon of regular gas jumped 11 cents in a day, according to AAA.
• That's the largest average price jump since March 2022, analysts say.
• The price spikes come as oil markets are rattled by increasing violence in the Middle East.

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