New Year’s Day commemorates the passing of time and the start of a new chapter, so it is fitting that the same day also presents an opportunity to…
Read more These notable works are officially in the public domain as 2026 arrivesSometimes you can tell a bill will be really bad just from its title. So it goes with The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating…
Read more The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.(CNN) — Disney is taking a $1 billion equity stake in OpenAI, while also striking a deal that would allow its famous characters be used on Sora, the AI…
Read more Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing its characters for SoraApple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train…
Read more Apple Is Being Accused of Training Its AI Using Copyrighted BooksThe complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt…
Read more You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking OutDigital pirates in China are getting more sophisticated and are blocking their services domestically to avoid local law enforcement, and U.S. copyright holders would like to speak to…
Read more China’s Latest Digital Headache for American Corporations: ‘Export-Only’ PiracyPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images In the AI world, everyone always seems to be going for broke. It’s AGI or bust — or as the gloomier title of…
Read more AI’s Go-for-Broke Regulation StrategyWellington, New Zealand — A New Zealand court has rejected the latest bid by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom to halt his deportation to the United States on charges related…
Read more Kim Dotcom loses latest bid to avoid U.S. extradition on Megaupload chargesArtificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works…
Read more AI company Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion over pirated books used to train chatbotsAnthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with authors in a landmark copyright case, marking one of the first and largest legal payouts of the AI era.…
Read more Anthropic reaches $1.5 Billion settlement with authors in landmark copyright caseAnthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit piracy lawsuit brought by authors. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case…
Read more Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle copyright lawsuit with authorsAnthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work.…
Read more Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright SettlementAnthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing…
Read more Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book AuthorsLast week, the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) released a expressing its regret that the US Copyright Office’s refused to grant an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright…
Read more The Video Game History Foundation’s fight for game preservation isn’t overThe White Stripes sued former President Donald Trump on Monday in a case that alleges he used their hit song “Seven Nation Army” without permission in a video…
Read more White Stripes sue Trump for using ‘Seven Nation Army’ without permissionThe Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of…
Read more The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright CaseCondé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New…
Read more Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAIKim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and hard-partying face of early 2010s online piracy, is finally headed to the US. Reuters reports that New Zealand’s justice minister signed an…
Read more Kim Dotcom, roguish face of 2010s online piracy, will finally be extradited to the USWhen most tech companies are challenged with a lawsuit, the expected defense is to deny wrongdoing. To give a reasonable explanation of why the business’ actions were not…
Read more AI startup argues scraping every song on the internet is ‘fair use’“With every one shop that I got to take [items] down, another 10 popped up out of nowhere,” Jödicke says. “I almost wanted to give up on my…
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