Witnessing a business founded on language be overtaken by the written word has an almost poetic quality. For many years, Anthropic positioned itself as the thoughtful competitor in the AI race. It was the quiet builder who favored research papers over hype reels and the safety-conscious cousin of OpenAI. The books then arrived. Any undergrad with a good VPN could locate millions of them in less than a minute by pulling them from shadow libraries. And now the biggest copyright settlement in American history. Key InformationDetailsCompanyAnthropic PBCCase NameBartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. C24-05417 WHACourtU.S. District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaPresiding…
Author: Janine Heller
Watching the Encyclopedia Britannica—a name that evokes the smell of old paper, leather-bound books arranged on wooden shelves, and librarians who were familiar with every Dewey decimal—enter a federal courtroom in Manhattan and file a lawsuit against one of the most potent artificial intelligence firms on the planet is almost poetic. It’s the kind of moment that simultaneously seems odd and inevitable. The collision of the old and new worlds—not in an abstract essay, but in a legal document bearing actual dates and monetary amounts. Earlier this month, Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that…
The jury rooms in Santa Fe and Los Angeles were small, fluorescent-lit spaces where Americans have made decisions on both minor and major issues for a century. They made a decision this past week that will plague Menlo Park and Mountain View’s boardrooms for years to come. Additionally, the people who actually oversee legal strategy at Meta, Google, and increasingly OpenAI were not looking at the figures, even though the majority of the headlines focused on the monetary amounts—$375 million from one jury, $6 million from another. They were staring at the doors that those numbers had just opened. ItemDetailCompanies…
On a Tuesday afternoon, the main Lovedale campus appears to be just like any other TVET college in the Eastern Cape. Students clutch their notebooks while wearing hoodies. A lecturer drinks from a chipped mug while leaning against a doorframe. However, something a little out of the ordinary is taking place inside one of the workshop buildings. A 3D printer is humming. A student is muttering in isiXhosa while struggling with an Arduino board. The majority of South Africans may still be unaware of the new Lovedale’s appearance. Launched under the Student Innovation Challenge, the college’s collaboration with UNDP South…
When the kids have left the school, a certain kind of silence descends upon the building. Now, if you walk by St Cuthbert’s RC Primary in Slateford on a weekday morning, you’ll notice that the building appears to be in perfect condition from the outside. There are no foot scuffs on the pavement, no parents fussing at the gate, just the low hum of traffic on Slateford Road. That’s what’s unnerving. From the street, it is impossible to see what is wrong with it. The City of Edinburgh Council called the closure, which took place on March 24, a “precautionary…
If you’ve spent any time near a school library during October, when Oxford applications are due, you’ll be able to identify the unique anxiety that sixth-formers experience. Textbooks spread out on tables, students hunched over personal statements, and a quiet rivalry that no one quite acknowledges. That’s what Oxford does to people. On paper, the requirements seem simple: AAA, AAA, and occasionally AA*A. However, anyone who has actually gone through the process knows that the grades are merely a ticket to admission. Although the University has become noticeably more accepting of equivalents over time, the majority of applicants arrive with…
On a soggy October morning, you’ll see them if you stroll past Turl Street: first-year students hauling suitcases up the cobbles, followed by a parent carrying a newspaper-wrapped houseplant. It’s simple to assume that everyone in this place came in the same manner. They didn’t. Some of them are supported by a scholarship program that the majority of British people are unaware of, and this unspoken reality is transforming Oxford more quickly than the brochures acknowledge. University of Oxford — Scholarships OverviewDetailsInstitutionUniversity of OxfordLocationOxford, United KingdomFoundedc. 1096 (teaching existed by this date)Types of scholarships coveredUndergraduate bursaries, graduate scholarships, country-specific awardsFlagship…
The exact duration of the three-hour AP U.S. Government and Politics exam is never quite what students anticipate. On paper, three hours seems doable. Anyone who has actually sat through it, with a keyboard in the Bluebook app in place of a pencil, will tell you that the clock acts strangely in a testing room. Like any other class period, the first hour goes by. Stretching is the second step. The third either flies or drags, depending on which free-response prompt you drew. The exam is open-ended, and the structure is fairly simple. There are 55 multiple-choice questions in section…
The Yale fight song was played back to 1,431 students on Thursday night as they gazed at a screen of singing bulldogs. Some had their parents hovering over them while they sat at kitchen tables. Others were holding their breath by themselves in cafés or dorm rooms. It was a personal moment for those children. For the rest of us who were watching the numbers, it was something else entirely—a tiny but significant portion of a larger narrative about how difficult it has become to enter Yale. InformationDetailsInstitutionYale UniversityLocationNew Haven, ConnecticutClass AdmittedClass of 2030Total Applicants54,919Students Admitted2,328Overall Acceptance Rate4.2%Regular Decision Acceptance…
It was a Wednesday when the email arrived. April 22 marked the end of the waiting period for thousands of candidates who had spent months reciting the rule against perpetuities like a prayer in windowless library carrels. The complete list was made public by the New York State Board of Law Examiners by the following morning, and the numbers quickly spread through Slack channels for law firms and group chats. 41% is the headline number. The overall passing rate is two points higher than it was in February of last year. Technically, this is good news, but anyone who has…