If you need me after this newsletter publishes, I will be busy poring over photos from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding, the gaudiest and most star-studded affair to disrupt technology news this year. I found it a tacky and spectacular affair. Everyone who was anyone was there, except for Charlize Theron, who, unprompted, said on Monday: "I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. Judge William Alsup compared the Anthropic model's use of books to a "reader aspiring to be a writer." And the next day, Meta: The US district judge Vince Chhabria, in San Francisco, said in his decision on the Meta case that the authors had not presented enough evidence that the technology company's AI would cause "market dilution" by flooding the market with work similar to theirs. Judging by the rulings in favor of Meta and Anthropic, the authors are facing an uphill battle. Three weeks ago, Disney and NBCUniversal sued Midjourney, alleging that the ...

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