Judge Alsup gives split decision: Anthropic AI training copies were fair use, exceedingly transformative. But Anthropic’s pirated books to build a permanent library are infringing. Trial on damages, including willfulness!

What did Judge Alsup mean by “pirated” source for “initial copy” of dataset used later to train Anthropic’s model, a copy that Anthropic “stole.” My musings: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/06/25/jud…

Meta wins fair use defense. But Judge Chhabria says most cases AI training will likely be illegal and not fair use. Plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence of the new theory of market harm that the Judge spent pages elaborating! Wow!

Revolut is the Robinhood of Europe. Bullish.

Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms opens at the Toledo Museum of Art this week, showcasing several notable Fidenza works alongside a QQL Generation Station where visitors can create, view, and email their generated QQL seeds. Information about the exhibition in the next post.

JUST IN: Over $165,000,000,000 added to the cryptocurrency market cap today.

$10 million for the 1st Birkin bag? Not bad.

Incredible experience to see Refik Anadol Refik Anadol irl at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain Guggenheim Bilbao

Face of crypto now, face of finance later. Nobody is ready 👀💡

soo soo insanely impressed by the Toledo Museum of Art new execution of digital art. Amazingly executed in a way that really highlights and elevates the work. Putting together a massive survey of this new movement is no small feat, huge congrats to all!!!

She helped sell beeple’s $69M artwork Brought Christie's onchain Faced threats over AI art This week's Luminary champions digital art from inside the institution 🌟 Nicole Sales Giles is driving the digital revolution at Christie's Words by medved Photos by Oveck ↓

Fun Fact: In 2021 the New York Times wrote an article about Pudgy Penguins. This was pre-acquisition. The people always liked the Penguin, not just now. One of my friends framed the article in his house.

I also spoke yesterday on AI national priority before Senate subcommittee hearing here, citing David Sacks

Anthropic faces potential business ending liability in copyright statutory damages now that Judge Alsup has certified a class action based on 7 million copies of pirated books. My analysis: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/07/17/ant…

Pudgy Penguins have depegged from BTC: May 1st: 1 Pudgy Penguin = 0.2 BTC June 1st: 1 Pudgy Penguin = 0.22 BTC July 1st: 1 Pudgy Penguin = 0.21 BTC Now: 1 Pudgy Penguin = 0.46 BTC

Large Nature Model — Yellowstone! I’m so excited to share more about Generative Reality experiments worldwide for Dataland !

Two different wallets just swept Chromie Squiggles at the same time. First wallet - Bought 19 Squiggles, still has $850,000 USD in the fresh wallet Second wallet - Bought 11 Squiggles, still has $7.4 Million USD in the fresh wallet. the institutions are coming

45 punks 11 squiggles

“Despite what the SEC has said in the past, most crypto assets are not securities. But confusion over the application of the ‘Howey test’has led some innovators to prophylactically treat all crypto assets as such.”

51 copyright lawsuits v AI companies in 2.5 years. 3 decisions on fair use, 2 for and 1 against in district court. Still a long way to go. No more fair use decisions likely possible until Spring 2026. Thomson Reuters v ROSS Intelligence is 1st on appeal. Kadrey maybe 2d in 2026