By Sean Burch

In a major court victory for artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday, a California federal judge sided with Anthropic, the parent company of the Claude AI chatbot, ruling copyrighted books can be used to train AI models without consent under fair use law.

Still, Anthropic is not completely cleared — Judge William Alsup said the company will have to face a separate trial over its “piracy” of millions of copyrighted books.

By Jeremy Fuster

Netflix appointed Airbnb chief financial officer Ellie Mertz to its board of directors on Tuesday while rejecting the resignation of lead independent director Jay Hoag after shareholders voted against reappointing him to the board.

Hoag, an early investor in Netflix, was not reelected to the company’s board at its annual shareholder meeting on June 5, with votes representing 78% of shares against him. Hoag, who had only attended 50% of board meetings in 2024, “offered his resignation from the board, conditioned upon board acceptance,” Netflix said in its 8-K filing.

By JD Knapp

“Jersey Shore Family Vacation” Season 8, Episode 4 proved Jerzdays are alive and well for MTV 15 years after the original series first started.

That’s because last week’s episode scored the show’s highest rating in four years and its biggest share in seven. “Family Vacation” is now the No. 1 series across cable on Thursday nights, as well as the most socialed cable show in Thursday primetime.