• AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer, says Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and so-called "Godfather of AI", who coincidentally sold his own AI startup in 2023 for $44 million.  (Financial Times)  (archive site)
  
  Hinton knows where to lay the blame, too: It's all the fault of capitalism.
  
  Yeah.  He's an idiot.
  
  
  
• Anthropic just made a lot of people richer and itself poorer.  (CNN)
  
  The company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of copyrighted material in AI training for $1.5 billion.
  
  The use of copyrighted material in AI training in general was ruled fair use, a blow for authors and a win for AI companies but as far as I can tell an accurate reading of copyright law.
  
  Where Anthropic came unstuck is that it downloaded around seven million books without paying for them.  It is now paying around $200 each.

• Of all the AMD Strix Halo mini-PCs that have been announced recently the Minisforum MS-S1 Max looks to be the most compelling.  (Liliputing)
  
  Well perhaps looks isn't the right term since it is an unremarkable small form-factor workstation you might find in any office, right until you check the specs.
  
  It has four USB-C ports (two USB4v2 at 80Gbps, and two USB4 at 40Gbps), five USB-A ports, HDMI, two audio jacks at front and rear, and two 10Gb Ethernet ports - RJ-45 too, so no fiddling about here.  Plus it has a PCIe slot, albeit limited to half-height half-length cards, though my QNAP 4-slot M.2 adaptor should fit.  And and internal 320W power supply so you don't need to worry about a chunky external brick.
  
  M.2 storage not mentioned in the article but presumably present.  Memory is the standard quad-channel LPDDR5X providing up to 128GB of soldered RAM at 8000MHz.
  
  As a reminder, this chip has 16 Zen 5 CPU cores paired with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU  cores, giving it a very fast CPU and the fastest integrated GPU of any PC.
  
  
  
• Speaking of QNAP and 10GBase-T QNAP has a new 10Gb Ethernet switch - 16 ports, available on Amazon for $599.  (Serve the Home)
  
  8 10GBase-T ports and 8 SFP+ ports, and it supports 2.5Gb and 5Gb speeds.  It's managed or you can save $50 and buy the unmanaged version though I don't really know why you would do that.  Except probably not even QNAP can load a security flaw into an unmanaged switch.
  
  
  
• Warner Bros has filed suit against AI image generation company Midjourney after discovering to its shock that artists - including AI "artists" - can draw pictures of things they have seen.  (WCCFTech)
  
  In this case, of Warner Bros characters.
  
  But that is legal.
  
  You can learn how to draw Superman.
  
  You can draw Superman.
  
  What you cannot legally do is distribute your artwork of Superman.
  
  Which Midjourney didn't do.
  
  Hoping this case reaches a sensible conclusion.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Sunday, September 07 2025 03:06 AM (KOtXO)

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