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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Happy ending for Anthropic Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute. On Monday, a judge […]

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight. OpenAI is facing calls for “serious sanctions” […]

Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

And finally, the GDPR is not a substitute for FTC monitoring, they argued. That seems particularly clear since X is […]

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT targets Microsoft supercomputer In 2023, the NYT became the first major publisher to sue OpenAI. The prominent newspaper alleged […]

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

“Powerball-size” attorney payouts Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees. After several authors and class […]

Authors’ lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting

Judge gave authors an easier attack on Meta’s torrenting. Meta hopes SCOTUS ruling will block it. Looks like Meta is […]

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 […]