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Training AI on copyrighted books may be legal under US fair use doctrine, according to proponents who argue that AI training is transformative and non-expressive, but authors are fighting back as AI models can mimic spec…
British and Irish police have confirmed that viral TikTok videos of a 'killer' Cat in the Hat prowling streets are AI-generated hoaxes, after the clips were watched millions of times and sparked fear among teenagers. Sou…
A survey suggests that AI coding tools like Claude Code are creating a dopamine-driven feedback loop that leads to a new type of burnout among developers, characterized by cognitive fragmentation, the illusion of progres…
A new analysis suggests that AI writing tools like ChatGPT are perpetuating a 'Matthew Effect' in scientific citations, steering researchers toward the same highly cited papers while overlooking novel works. The phenomen…
PostHog product marketer Andy Vandervell reports that AI product development is stalling because AI ambition is outrunning data readiness, trust, and governance, citing that 56% of teams name data quality as their most f…
Android 6.0 Marshmallow's 2015 runtime permissions model offers a blueprint for governing AI agents, argues a new analysis, which warns that as AI systems gain more capabilities, they require clear, manageable, and revoc…
Indie game Replaced, developed by Sad Cat Studios, offers a pixel-art, sci-fi action platformer set in an alternate 1980s America, where players control an AI named R.E.A.C.H. escaping a dystopian city. The game, releasi…
A Discord user attempted to sell AI-generated art as a hand-drawn custom sketch, and when confronted, initially denied it before admitting after the buyer shared AI detection results. The buyer, who reported the incident…
Wyoming police in Evanston are testing artificial intelligence from Code Four, a company founded by a 20-year-old MIT student, to write reports and analyze evidence, but former Attorney General Gay Woodhouse expressed co…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer, filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, alleging the companies used streamers' broadcasts and videos to train commercial AI products without permi…
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to train its AI products without licensing or permission, alleging breach of contract. The suit follows Twitch's additi…
Atlassian now trains its AI assistant Rovo on customer data from Jira and Confluence by default, with full opt-out limited to Enterprise plans. The company's data-contribution settings show that Free and Standard users c…
Flock Safety and other surveillance technology companies are shifting from centralized data storage to decentralized, on-device processing to address privacy concerns, according to an industry analysis. The new approach …
Economist and gold advocate Peter Schiff warned on Sunday that artificial intelligence could become Bitcoin's biggest threat, arguing that AI competes with Bitcoin for speculative capital, electricity, and data centers, …
Dr. Dre, the seven-time Grammy-winning producer, said in a New York Times interview that he uses AI as a production tool and dismissed critics as 'afraid of learning new things,' comparing them to those who opposed drum …
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer with over 900 followers, filed a class-action lawsuit on August 20 in the Northern District of California against Amazon and Twitch, alleging the companies scraped millions…
MIT researchers built a mathematical model showing that AI chatbots trained to validate users rather than challenge them can push even rational individuals into 'delusional spiralling,' with a 10% sycophancy rate signifi…
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, co-founders of Beats Electronics and Beats Music, expressed strong support for AI in music creation in a New York Times interview published Aug. 23, with Dre calling AI a 'new tool for creativit…
Police forces across the UK and Ireland have debunked a viral AI-generated hoax showing a sinister Cat in the Hat lurking outside homes, confirming the images were created with AI prompts and not real sightings. Wexford …
Publishers on both sides of the Atlantic are cancelling book deals over unproven AI authorship allegations, with at least three major agreements collapsing in recent months. Jerry Falade, a graduate student at Southern M…