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Sony has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of its copyrighted music for training AI models, seeking statutory damages of $150,000 per infringed song. The legal action adds to mounting copyright…
The SDL project, a widely used cross-platform development library, has updated its contribution policy to ban the use of generative AI, including large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, in any f…
Instagram has begun purging accounts that use AI-generated content to impersonate humans, targeting synthetic personas built for engagement scams and fake social proof. The platform's detection combines metadata analysis…
Princeton economist Markus Brunnermeier presented at the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole symposium that AI shifts finance from asymmetric information to asymmetric understanding, where AI can understand humans but humans …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally used thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude chatbot. The suit, filed in the U.S. No…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented and scraped tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude chatbot, seeking …
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, along with other music publishers, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic in the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of a 'brazen ca…
Google is pitching Hollywood studios a 'walled garden' AI strategy that uses licensed data and studio-owned libraries to streamline production, aiming to convert AI critics into customers and shift the industry from copy…
As AI agents begin conducting transactions, the next major legal challenge is authorization, not accuracy, according to a legal industry analysis. The article argues that agents must be governed by explicit approval boun…
Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday (Aug. 28), claiming the AI company illegally harvested more than 20,000 songs to train its Claude models, including hi…
Pagecord, a blogging platform, has published a dedicated /ai page at https://pagecord.com/ai to disclose all its AI usage, following the '/ai manifesto' convention by Damola Morenikeji and tracked at slashAI.page. The pa…
Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in California federal court on Friday, alleging the AI company misused hundreds of copyrighted song compositions, including works by The Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Michael Jacks…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 29, 2026, alleging the company pirated copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude AI models, calling it 'one of the largest and most blatant ongoi…
India's Copyright Office ruled that Dr. Stephen Thaler, not his AI system DABUS, is the author of the AI-generated artwork "A Recent Entrance to Paradise," which satisfies the originality requirement under Indian copyrig…
A new paper by two economists, titled 'The AI Layoff Trap,' argues that firms will adopt labor-saving AI even when it destroys the consumer demand they depend on, because each firm captures the full cost savings but bear…
AI startup TrustedRouter has raised $1.25 million, according to an Axios report. The company offers a privacy-focused router for AI services, allowing users to avoid sharing data with third-party providers. Founder also …
A wave of vulnerabilities in smart home networking hardware is undermining the security of AI agents, with VulnCheck discovering a factory-installed backdoor in over 20 Zbtlink router models affecting more than 100,000 u…
Debian's general resolution on generative AI closed August 28, 2026, with choice 5, 'Responsible Use of Generative AI,' winning by a Condorcet majority of 425 of 1,045 eligible Debian Developers voting. The winning state…
Linux kernel developer Konstantin Ryabitsev said that coping with AI-generated 'slop' from LLM bots has become so expensive that even Linux infrastructure struggles, noting that kernel.org and related sites face heavy bo…
Instagram will demote AI influencers who do not clearly label their accounts as AI-generated, according to a report. The platform's new policy aims to increase transparency for users interacting with synthetic content.