AI’s Wild Week: Apple Sued, Anthropic Pays $1.5B, Mistral Raises €1.7B — Plus Atlassian Buys Arc Maker & Azure Hit through Red Sea Cables

The Monkey Patching Podcast: Going Bananas on AI, Data, LLMs & Tech

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Company for $610 million https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

Mistral AI raises €1.7B to accelerate technological activity https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mistralai_mistral-ai-raises-17b-to-accelerate-technological-activity-7371045632284971008-KOtm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAUumq8B49UW7m9VV5ijr01USsCOWMSQaGw

The Three Faces Of Generative AI https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/

Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright case https://fortune.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-reaches-1-5-billion-settlement-with-authors-in-landmark-copyright-case/?utm_source=perplexity

Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05/?utm_source=perplexity

Microsoft Says Azure Service Affected by Damaged Red Sea Cables https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-06/microsoft-says-azure-service-affected-by-damaged-red-sea-cables

Why language models hallucinate https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/

Tidbits:

AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168854

WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

The MIT-Pay Me Or Get The Fork Out License https://barts.space/the-mit-pay-me-or-get-the-fork-out-license/

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