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TechCrunch roundup combines AI hardware privacy debates (Lorde on AI glasses), regulatory/legal developments (AI training lawsuits and token-spend caps), and major funding milestones (PixVerse, OpenAI researcher Miles Wang’s drug-discovery venture) with several hard numeric data points.

Publishers sue Google over Gemini training on copyrighted works without permission, signaling potential regulatory and financial risk in AI training practices.

Google Images gets a Pinterest-like, discovery-focused redesign with a 'For You' gallery and real-time updates, plus in-Search AI image generation, while the piece also flags regulatory risk and funding signals in AI for life sciences.