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Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

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On Tuesday Microsoft announced a new initiative called “Community-First AI Infrastructure” that commits the company to paying full electricity costs for its data centers and refusing to seek local property tax reductions. As demand for generative AI services has increased over the past year, Big Tech companies have been racing to spin up massive new […]

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World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

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The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of metadata and music files in bulk torrents. According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest

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The AI Training Data Watershed: Why the $1.5B Anthropic Settlement Changes Everything

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For years, creative professionals have unknowingly provided raw materials making modern AI possible. Photographers sharing portfolios online, models contributing biometric data through professional shoots, and writers publishing content across digital platforms—all have been building the datasets that power today’s AI […] The post The AI Training Data Watershed: Why the $1.5B Anthropic Settlement Changes Everything

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