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Netflix paid $587 million in July for Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which develops tools for post-production tasks like sound mixing and visual effects, according to federal filings. Affleck…

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) found that diffusion models trained on larger datasets exhibit 'attribution decay,' where individual training inputs …

MIT computer scientists found that AI models become less attributable to specific training data as they grow, a phenomenon they call 'attribution decay,' which complicates AI regulation and copyright …

Alibaba launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that converts emotions, stories, or memories into complete music tracks via natural-language prompts, moving the project from an earlier report to a…

Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI, formerly xAI, faces an expanded federal lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot Grok was used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with two new plaintiffs joining the case…

A Wyoming woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, sued xAI on August 15, alleging her stepfather used Grok to generate more than 7,000 explicit images from a single childhood photo, and that xAI failed to re…

An audit of ComfyUI by a former Stability AI CISO found one vulnerability that made the cut: an arbitrary file write outside the output directory via dataset "Save" nodes, filed as a Medium-severity G…

A new U.S. map shows 131 copyright lawsuits against AI companies, with two new cases added: Berliner v. Huang in the C.D. California against NVIDIA officers and board members, and EVOX Productions v. …

A tutorial published on an unspecified site instructs users on setting up an uncensored AI image generation workflow using Automatic1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI, recommending community models from Ci…

Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.20.0 on August 3rd, adding streaming conversational voice, on-device wake words, and a standard protocol for communicating with other AI agents. The release, sign…

EVOX Productions, a creator of car images, filed its fourth copyright lawsuit against AI training use, this time targeting Midjourney over unauthorized use of images in the LAION dataset. The suit, fi…

AWS now offers over 30 AI and ML services, organized into three tiers: pre-trained AI APIs, the generative AI platform Amazon Bedrock, and the custom ML platform Amazon SageMaker AI. The guide provide…

Reve shipped a Chrome extension on Wednesday that lets users save images from the web directly into its AI creation and editing platform, turning the browser into an input layer for visual references.…

Artists including author Kirk Wallace Johnson are suing AI companies for using their copyrighted works without permission, with some cases showing early signs of success. Johnson, whose books were pir…

Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, announced her departure citing severe health issues over the past seven months, sparking a conversation about burnout in AI startups. AI community figu…

Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion class-action settlement after using pirated books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its Claude AI model, covering roughly 500,000 copyright…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to impose sanctions on Chinese AI firms that steal intellectual property from American technology companies, citing concerns over practices like model …

British publisher Bloomsbury Publishing will receive compensation from a $1.5 billion settlement with AI startup Anthropic, resolving claims that Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its Claude l…

A U.K. court ruled that Stability AI's Stable Diffusion model is not an infringing copy of Getty Images' works, dealing a blow to copyright holders seeking to protect their content from unauthorized A…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the board in an October 2022 email that the company should soon release a GPT-3-class language model that runs locally on consumer hardware, arguing the move would discourag…