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Can we please keep our broadband money, Republican governor asks Trump admin
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has a simple request for the Trump administration: Don’t take our broadband money away. Trump’s Commerce […]
Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools
Spotify sent a warning to stop data sales, but developers say they never got it. For millions of Spotify users, […]
AI vs. MAGA: Populists alarmed by Trump’s embrace of AI, Big Tech
Some Republicans are still angry over the deplatforming of Trump by tech executives once known for their progressive politics. They […]
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” […]
“You are evil”: GirlsDoPorn ringleader Michael Pratt sentenced to 27 years
“For almost a decade, the Defendant led the scheme to systematically coerce and defraud women into engaging in filmed sexual […]
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 […]
EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses
SpaceX’s complaints to the Federal Communications Commission have helped the satellite company land a $17 billion deal to buy spectrum […]
Trump’s attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court
1935 Supreme Court is key precedent The key precedent in the case is Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935 […]
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company […]