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Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Beyond challenging existing theories, the study demonstrates the power of a new generation of imaging technology.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Behind these parties is a new generation of black promoters passionate about creating spaces where black people can hear their music, celebrate their cultures and feel like they belong.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
But inside the labs, researchers could see that the next generation of models wouldn’t have any trouble computing the number of letters in fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
At first sight, Pascal’s claim that progress has been continuous seems nonsense: we would accumulate experience from generation to generation only if we had a reliable way of recording and transmitting it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"I'm not naïve. I know there are a lot of more militant voices from young generations," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
“The cultural significance of heirlooms—their story, weaved through generations of family grafting and genealogy—is all fine and dandy, but hasn’t science rendered these older apple varieties obsolete?”
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, collectively known as "Los Javis," have wowed critics and filmgoers with their sweeping queer epic telling the interconnected stories of three gay men over multiple generations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
But, the author tells us, it was Bell, through Holmes’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, who would inspire generations of real-life forensic detectives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Darwin’s question was macroscopic: How do organisms transmute information about their features over a thousand generations?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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