Morning Scan

Tuesday's items: AI companies face courtrooms, chip budgets, and publisher terms-of-service fights. SpaceX is showing its balance sheet and Apple is handing off display leadership.

$41M+ — What Elvis Presley's rightsholders are seeking from Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used in model training. (New York Times)

Machines & Minds

Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs

The King's estate wants $41M+ and Anthropic says it will fight, adding another entry to the training-data docket. (New York Times)

Meta delays rollout of updated commercial terms amid publishers' pushback

Publishers acting together got Meta to back off its content-use terms, at least for now. (Digiday)

After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling

Beijing wants export controls on paper, while national champions are still shipping in practice. (The Register)

Is Anthropic Worth $2 Trillion?

A valuation check on the number everyone is now saying out loud. (Get The Leverage)

Connected World

Samsung plans to make 20% fewer mid-range phones due to rising chip costs

Price hikes weren't enough, so volume is being trimmed too. (SamMobile)

Nvidia's sales and marketing leadership is seeing a changing of the guard

The pitch has moved from GPUs to AI infrastructure, and the people pitching have changed with it. (Business Insider)

Apple Display Veterans Step Back as New Leaders Take Over

Two three-decade Apple veterans hand off displays as the Ternus-era reshuffle continues. (MacRumors)

Connected World

The reactor meant to showcase nuclear's comeback keeps hitting problems

Regulators issued a warning on the flagship restart project after a contractor incident, a bad headline for the revival. (Ars Technica)

Student-loan borrowers are facing a key issue ahead of the midterms: affording their new monthly payments

Over 10 million borrowers are behind on payments, a number campaigns eventually notice. (Business Insider)

Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash

Benioff reportedly spent about an hour with Slack's CEO before the deal and didn't use Slack. (Building Slack)

Connected World

A profile of Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant for mundane tasks

The former Yahoo CEO is back with an assistant aimed at non-technical users and the tasks nobody wants to do. (New York Times)