FICO announced this week that buy-now-pay-later loans will now be included on credit reports and credit scores. The new credit scores will be “offered side-by-side with existing versions of the FICO Score,” FICO said.

ANTHROPIC WINS LAWSUIT AGAINST AUTHORS OVER AI

A federal judge has ruled it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without authors’ permission, marking the first court decision to support the fair use defense in AI training. The ruling is a setback for authors, artists, and publishers suing companies like OpenAI, Midjourney, and Google.

ELON’s XAI TO RAISE $4.3B, X MONEY LAUNCHES PHYSICAL CARD

xAI is trying to raise a $4.3 billion equity investment, in addition to the $5 billion that Musk is allegedly trying to raise in debt funding for the combined entity of X and xAI. Also according to findings from mobile app intelligence firm AppSensa, the X app has been updated over the past few weeks with several references related to a physical debit card, which can be customized with your X username.

EXTRA NEWS

Waymo robotaxis can now be hailed in Atlanta via Uber, where the commercial service will initially cover about 65 square miles in Atlanta. Meanwhile, Waymo said it provides 250,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

SoftBank is looking to team up with TSMC to launch a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build AI and robotics, citing sources familiar with the project.

Threads has launched two new features as part of its plan to further integrate with the open social web, known as the fediverse. Users will be able to search & see posts from other users on the fediverse within a dedicated feed if they’ve opted in to fediverse sharing.

Grifin, an app that simplifies investing by automatically purchasing stocks in brands where users regularly shop, shared they have done an $11M Series A raise and have surpassed 500,000 registered users.