Anthropic's new text watermarking for Claude, implemented to comply with the EU AI Act, has sparked backlash from users who fear it will penalize legitimate use, while critics argue the law targets a …
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick updated readers on his AI usage, stating he still writes all articles himself and uses AI only for editing and task management, scoring a 'one' on the REAL Rating scale f…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto, 'The Future is for Everyone,' argues for open, decentralized AI and warns against concentrated power, drawing mixed reactions from critics and advocates. How…
The Ultimate Python and Artificial Intelligence Bundle, featuring 9 courses on data pre-processing, visualization, artificial neural networks, and the Keras framework, is on sale for $40 through the T…
X.AI, Elon Musk's company formed in 2025 by merging X and xAI, is suing Minnesota over a new law banning access to nudification technology, claiming it violates the First Amendment. The company, which…
The Complete Machine Learning Bundle, featuring over 10 courses on topics including self-driving cars and speech recognition, is on sale for $30 through the Techdirt Deals Store, powered by StackComme…
A U.S. district court has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi, which scraped Google search results to train AI models, ruling that Google failed to show copyright holders authorized it to act. …
The Premium Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Super Bundle, a twelve-course digital toolkit for learning AI and data science, is on sale for $37 via the Techdirt Deals Store, which is powered b…
Techdirt contributor Timothy Geigner published a June 23, 2026 opinion piece accusing Kotaku of dogmatic AI coverage, citing articles by Zack Zwiezen and Rebekah Valentine that pre-judge AI use in gam…
Kotaku's coverage of AI in gaming has become dogmatic and pre-judges all uses of the technology, according to a Techdirt analysis. The outlet's writers express negativity toward AI tools in game devel…
A bogus DMCA notice filed in April 2026 temporarily removed a Press Gazette investigation into Clickout Media from Google Search, highlighting how fake copyright claims can bury competitors. The incid…
Techdirt's weekly roundup highlights comments on AI replacing workers, with readers arguing CEOs should be replaced by AI due to high costs and poor decision-making, and on NCOSE's porn crackdown, cri…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held its 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night in San Francisco, where three teams tied for first place for the first time in the event's history. Team Shady Docke…
The June 5, 2026 episode of the Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast, "Generous To A Default," covered Meta's global rollout of new content settings for teen accounts, a Krebs on Security report detailing attacker…