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Nadella calls it 'ironic' that AI labs train on the world but restrict everyone else from learning back News
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published an essay arguing that in the AI era buyers pay twice -- once in money, once in the proprietary knowledge they must reveal to use a model -- and called it ironic that labs claim fair-use training rights while restricting distillation.
California will use Claude at half price across its state agencies News
On June 29, Governor Newsom announced a first-of-its-kind deal giving all California state agencies -- and interested cities and counties -- access to Anthropic's Claude at a 50% discount plus free training, one of the largest U.S. public-sector AI agreements.
Meta caps employee AI token use after a 'Claudeonomics' leaderboard drove costs toward billions News
Meta imposed centralized quotas on employee AI usage after staff burned an estimated 73.7 trillion tokens in about a month, gamifying consumption on an internal leaderboard, with costs projected to reach billions in 2026.