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AI is still in its infancy, so why trust it to run your business? [Q&A]

Today’s AI agents are rather like curious children — eager to learn, keen to experiment, but lacking the maturity to […]

Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

Taking responsibility for power usage In the Microsoft blog post, Smith acknowledged that residential electricity rates have recently risen in […]

World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs

But Anna’s Archive is clearly working to support AI developers, another noted, pointing out that Anna’s Archive promotes selling “high-speed […]

Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

Instead, Meta argued, available evidence “is plainly indicative” that the flagged adult content was torrented for “private personal use”—since the […]

Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

“Really Simple Licensing” makes it easier for creators to get paid for AI scraping. Logo for the “Really Simply Licensing” […]

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic’s rampant piracy of […]

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data. […]

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Skip to content Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation. A hobbyist […]

Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

“Until they’re able to defend their site and comply with platform policies (e.g., respecting user privacy, re: deleting removed content) […]

Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

Evidence may prove Meta seeded more content Seeking evidence to back its own copyright infringement claims, Strike 3 Holdings searched […]