Plus: OpenAI says it built an automated research intern; Nvidia’s Huang backs OpenAI’s AGI claim after Astra launch
Welcome back to a Monday where the machines are proving theorems and the humans are still arguing over who owns the books.
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⚖️ Authors challenge publishers over Anthropic settlement claims
Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement is the largest copyright class action payout in U.S. history. Publishers including HarperCollins and Penguin Random House are claiming shares of books whose rights already reverted to authors.
The details:
Literary agencies with no copyright stake have filed claims in the settlement.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on July 20, 2026.
The settlement covers roughly 482,000 eligible works drawn from shadow libraries including LibGen and PiLiMi.
🤖 OpenAI says it built an automated research intern
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OpenAI said on September 6, 2026 that it has reached the goal of fielding an automated research intern by September of this year. OpenAI's research organization now uses 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor.
The details:
The median researcher integrates agents daily at more than $600 per day of inference at API prices.
The 90th percentile user in the research organization uses more than $7,000 of tokens per day.
More than half of successful 4 to 8 hour tasks from January to July still needed one or more human interventions.
🧠 Nvidia’s Huang backs OpenAI’s AGI claim after Astra launch
OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies as artificial general intelligence. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans.
The details:
The Astra model went to business users in the Daybreak programme on Thursday.
A version of Astra with added cybersecurity guardrails is planned for paid ChatGPT subscribers.
Both versions of Astra block access to the most advanced cyber capabilities.
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