Anthropic won a significant fair use ruling allowing the training of Claude on copyrighted books, setting a precedent for AI training legality despite concerns over pirated data. Replit achieved a major milestone with $100M ARR, showing rapid growth. Delphi raised $16M Series A to scale digital minds, while Thinking Machines Lab focuses on reinforcement learning for business applications.

Disney and Universal sued Midjourney over unauthorized use of copyrighted images. Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics On-Device, a compact foundation model for robotics.