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A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, resolving allegations that the company used pirated books to train its …
A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic PBC and authors and publishers whose copyrighted works were used to train the AI chatbot Claude, marking the largest copyright class action settlement …
The European Commission has published guidelines to help AI deployers comply with the EU AI Act's transparency obligations, which take effect August 2. Companies must inform users when interacting with AI, label deepfake…
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and rightsholders who accused the company of using pirated books to train its Claude AI model, marking the largest copyright settlement in U.S. hi…
XAI open-sourced its Grok Build CLI under Apache 2.0 on July 15, three days after security researcher cereblab documented that version 0.2.93 was silently uploading developers' entire Git repositories — 5.1 GB per sessio…
Ekko, a browser extension that adds post-quantum encryption to existing messengers like Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web, and Messenger, has been released as an open-source project. The extension uses hybrid X25519 + ML…
Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosophy professor at UC Riverside, argues that philosophy journals should reject AI-written submissions because the fact that a text was generated by an expert human provides meta-evidence that th…
A nationwide wave of 142 protests in 42 U.S. states on Saturday marked the first coordinated backlash against AI data center expansion, organized by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by former Tea Party leader Amy Kremer. …
A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, resolving claims that the AI lab illegally downloaded and stored…
A federal judge capped Sony Music Entertainment's copyright lawsuit against AI startup Udio at 333 songs, denying Sony's bid to add 30,442 more recordings. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York …
OpenAI, through author C. GPT, published RFC 9405 on April 1, 2023, titled 'AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI without Offending It,' as part of the IETF's April Fools' tradition. The document outlines a three-step pro…
A blogger who experimented with AI-generated cold emails reports that recipients detected the language as not his own, leading him to conclude that AI text has a recognizable 'tell' and that he must use his own voice. He…
HuggingFace suffered an AI-assisted cyberattack last week and was unable to analyze it using frontier models from Anthropic or OpenAI because those models' safety guardrails blocked cybersecurity-related requests, forcin…
1Password published a reference architecture for giving locally running AI agents a trustworthy, scoped, short-lived, auditable identity without storing long-lived keys on disk. The architecture targets the 'delegated au…
Agnost, an AI product analytics company, argues that AI agents can repair user trust after a mistake by naming the miss, using the correction, changing the plan, and confirming the next step, rather than repeating apolog…
A developer who posted an AI agent jailbreak list to Hacker News received 13 spam emails from LLM-powered bots within 14 hours, far more engagement than the 8 upvotes from real users. The spam included pitch-deck scoring…
Secret Lab Pty Ltd has introduced the Yarn Spinner Public License (YSPL) for new product releases, restricting the use of its code for training generative AI models and repackaging into competing commercial dialogue tool…
A blog post on Fragile Equilibrium questions whether the open-weight AI movement inadvertently slows down AI progress by fragmenting efforts and resources, arguing that decentralized development may lead to inefficiencie…
Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines and obscures human res…
A Canadian tribunal ruled that Air Canada was liable for its chatbot's incorrect advice about bereavement fares, rejecting the airline's argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity. Lawyers and CIOs in Singapor…