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India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content — a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one of their most important and fastest-growing markets globally. On Tuesday, India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a proposed framework that would give AI companies access to all copyrighted works for training in exchange for paying royalties to a new collecting body composed of rights-holding organizations, with payments then distributed to creators. The proposal argues that this “mandatory blanket license” would lower compliance costs for…

A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain injuries at the cellular level, according to our research in the Journal of Neurotrauma.In the future, this information could help clinicians identify children who need more tailored follow-up care after a traumatic brain injury.Basics of epigeneticsAs part of our work as a nurse scientist and neuropsychologist studying traumatic brain injury, we wanted to look for biological markers inside cells that might help explain why some children recover smoothly after brain injury while others struggle.To do this, we focused…

President Donald Trump’s top AI advisor is seeking to clear up any confusion about the administration’s AI preemption plans.In a lengthy post on X on Monday, White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks said that a forthcoming executive order to restrict states’ ability to regulate AI is “an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction.”Sacks, a venture capitalist and a co-host of the “All In” podcast, sought to address various concerns about AI preemption, which has proved to be a controversial topic even within Trump’s coalition.He called those concerns the four Cs — child safety, communities, creators, and censorship.Regarding…

AI research lab Anthropic continues to cement its stake as the predominant AI player in the enterprise space. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced a multi-year partnership with professional services firm Accenture. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; however, The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is for three years. Accenture confirmed the deal is for three years but declined to comment on financials. TechCrunch reached out to Anthropic for more information. The two companies are forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group. This will include formal Claude training for Accenture’s 30,000 employees. Anthropic’s Claude Code coding tools will be…

After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch brand, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record quick notes and reminders with a press of a button on the ring’s side. AI only comes into play via the open source, speech-to-text, and AI models that run locally on your…

French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs. This announcement follows the recent launch of the Mistral 3 family of open-weight models, and confirms Mistral’s intent to close in on its bigger and better-funded AI rivals. The unicorn is also jumping into the ‘vibe-coding’ race that has fueled the rise of companies like Cursor and Supabase with Mistral Vibe, a new command-line interface (CLI) aimed at facilitating code automation through natural language, with…

NEW YORK (AP) — The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years. Writing in an essay on her website, Scott said, “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal expressions of care being shared into communities this year.”Scott acknowledged donating $2.6 billion in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. The gifts this year bring her total giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion.Scott’s donations have captured the attention…

On the Tuesday, December 9, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A vaccine panel led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to end the longstanding recommendation for hepatitis B shots for all newborns. USA TODAY Consumer Health Reporter Ken Alltucker joins The Excerpt to discuss the ramifications.Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.Podcasts: True crime, in-depth interviews and more USA TODAY podcasts…

When Alessandro Barbera was rushed to a California hospital with infant botulism in October, his father had barely heard of the disease, never mind the rare and costly treatment that likely saved the newborn’s life.Now, however, Tony Barbera is deeply grateful for BabyBIG, the sole antidote to the paralyzing and potentially deadly illnesses linked to contaminated ByHeart infant formula.“It is hugely remarkable,” said Barbera, 35, whose son is slowly recovering.The botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart formula has sickened at least 39 babies across in 18 states since August — and showed the value of the treatment made from blood plasma…

Savannah Kerns, an 11-year-old sixth grader, struggles with social anxiety. Crowds overwhelm her. “I feel like if I get something wrong, people laugh at me,” she said. Kerns recently transitioned from elementary school to Pleasant Hills Middle School in the South Hills. She’s navigating her class schedule in a larger environment and encountering a wider variety of teachers and students. Some of those students — “mostly guys from different classes” — bullied her. “Especially because of my weight and style,” said Kerns, who wore an elegant, floor-length black dress while speaking with this reporter in the school’s “Chill Room.” She…