AI companies start winning the copyright fight

Tech firms notch victories in battle over copyrighted text, Trump's gold phone, and online age checks

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. If you need me after this newsletter publishes, I will be busy poring over photos from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding, the gaudiest and most star-studded affair to disrupt technology news this year. I found it a tacky and spectacular affair. Everyone who was anyone was there, except for Charlize Theron, who, unprompted, said on Monday: I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that's OK, because they suck and we're cool."

Google's emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants