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The appeals court says software disclosed to a reseller can retain trade-secret protection when access is governed by licences and confidentiality duties. SS&C’s case against Arcesium may proceed, but the ruling does not find that misappropriation occurred.
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Drax, Brookfield and Radiant are targeting more than 1 GW of AI capacity at a North Yorkshire power station. The immediate proposal is smaller and conditional: a grid-fed 100 MW first phase that still needs planning consent, an anchor customer and final investment decisions.
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The CJEU’s first generative-AI case draws a legal line between reporting facts and recognizably reusing journalism. The opinion is not a judgment, but it could shape how grounded chatbots retrieve, summarize and pay for news across the EU.
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The Federal Circuit affirmed that Sonos does not infringe Google’s digital-rights-management patent because grouped speakers do not all directly use the claimed private key. The nonprecedential ruling shows how a few technical words can decide a connected-device patent case before trial.
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Ifezuntirgene inilparvovec could become the first treatment intended to alter Huntington’s disease progression. Its May 2027 review deadline is a milestone, not an endorsement: the application relies on a small Phase I/II program and external controls, while four-year results missed statistical significance on the primary measure.
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Marvell has agreed to acquire Lumentum in an all-stock transaction that would combine custom AI silicon and switching with lasers, transceivers and optical-circuit switching. The scale is extraordinary, but the deal is a proposed 2028 combination—not completed consolidation.
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The Unified Patent Court has held Enanta’s European coronavirus-protease patent invalid and rejected its infringement case against Pfizer’s Paxlovid across 18 participating states. The cross-border result is clear; the legal and technical reasoning is not, because the judgment has not been made public.
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Saudi Aramco has closed a 49% investment in state-backed AI company HUMAIN, contributing about $2.6 billion in cash plus computing and digital assets. The transaction joins oil-industry demand, sovereign capital and a 3-gigawatt data-center ambition—but it does not disclose HUMAIN’s valuation, total build cost or how much capacity is already operating.
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Energy North has withdrawn the June 2028 first-power date for its proposed off-grid AI campus in Australia’s Northern Territory. The project is not cancelled, but its 1-gigawatt computing plan now depends on an environmental review whose timetable has been suspended while regulators set the rules.
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