Subj : Amazon + Anthropic datacenter ¨, OpenAI's Office competitor ¨, AI tops HackerOne ¨¨ To : All From : TLDR Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 10:46:08 --cMYRRTuu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Amazon's Project Rainier involves building data centers so large they wou= ld have been considered absurd just a few years ago=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2= =A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C= =C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80= =8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0= =E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0=E2=80=8C=C2=A0 Sign = Up [1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR =09=09TOGETHER = WITH [Elf Labs] [4] TLDR 2025-06-25 HISTORY'S MORE PROFITABLE CH= ARACTERS MEETS PATENTED NEXT-GEN TECH- ROUND CLOSES TONIGHT (SPONSOR) [4]= =20 QUICK QUESTION: What happens when you combine: =09* 100+ trade= mark victories for characters like Cinderella & Snow White =09* Patente= d AR technology=C2=A0 =09* A $350B licensed merchandise market =09* A t= eam with $6B+ in licensing deals ANSWER: You get Elf Labs [4]=E2=80= =94the company building AI-powered 3D worlds where kids can have real-tim= e conversations with their Rapunzel doll or PLAY HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH CINDE= RELLA=E2=80=93_RIGHT IN THEIR LIVING ROOM!_ They're reshaping the $2= T entertainment market, and for a limited time, you can invest [4]. = THE CATCH? 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ChatGPT Wows Office Workers= .. That's a Problem for Microsoft (8 minute read)

Drug maker Amgen Inc. last spring annou= nced plans to buy Microsoft's Copilot assistant for 20,000 employees, but 1= 3 months later, Amgen employees are using OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company exp= anded its ChatGPT use earlier this year after hearing from employees that i= t helped with tasks such as research and summarizing scientific documents. = Its push into the enterprise market is complicating its already fraught rel= ationship with Microsoft. OpenAI claims it has 3 million paying business us= ers.
Anthropic wins a major fair= use victory for AI =E2=80=94 but it's still in trouble for stealing books = (4 minute read)

Anthropic used both downloaded ebooks a= nd purchased and scanned print books to create the data it used to train it= s models. A judge found that the scanned books fell under fair use as they = were transformative versions of the works and were not shared outside of th= e company. The downloaded ebooks did not count as fair use - these will be = the subject of a forthcoming jury trial. The judge found that training a la= rge language model on unlicensed data counted as 'fair use'.
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