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ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI's AI Browser
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OpenAI launched the Chromium fork AI browser Atlas for macOS, featuring integrated Agent mode and browser memory with local login capabilities, aiming to surpass Google's Gemini in Chrome. The launch received mixed reactions regarding reliability and privacy. LangChain raised a $125M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, releasing v1.0 agent engineering stack with significant adoption including 85M+ OSS downloads/month and usage by ~35% of the Fortune 500. The ecosystem also saw updates like vLLM's MoE LoRA expert finetuning support.
Bartz v. Anthropic PBC — "Training use is Fair Use"
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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.