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The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) confirmed that AI-generated output falls outside copyright protection, aligning with the Court of Justice of the European Union's requirement that a work reflect th…
A recent essay argues that while AI can assist in creative tasks, it should not replace human artists, as it lacks lived experience and spontaneity. The author recounts a personal anecdote where a bridesmaid credited Cha…
Music IP Holdings (MIH), formed through a partnership between Universal Music Group (UMG) and Liquidax Capital, announced on Thursday (Aug. 20) that AI music start-ups Udio and GRAI are the first two companies to license…
An engineer at MDLC discovered that AI-generated code can silently omit security controls while all automated signals report green. In one build, 'PII encryption at rest' was marked applied in three documents, but a grep…
A new philosophical Element argues that experts, the public, and society collectively do not and will not know whether advanced AI systems will become conscious within the next five to thirty years, and that the stakes a…
A developer warns that AI alignment remains a critical engineering issue, citing that current systems can cause damage through capability, under-specification, and autonomy, and reports that their team spends about 30% o…
The European Union has determined that copyright protection does not extend to AI-generated content, according to a ruling that clarifies the legal status of machine-created works. The decision, reported via a post on Ma…
Every, a 30-person AI publication and product studio co-founded by CEO Dan Shipper, has built an AI clone of its editor in chief, Kate Lee, by training a copy-editing agent on a dataset of 30,000 of her historical edits …
Anil Dash, a prominent tech writer and entrepreneur, argues in a new essay that shaming people about AI-generated content is structurally ineffective at stopping the adoption of Big AI tools from companies like OpenAI, b…
Slop debt, the accumulation of code generated by large language models (LLMs) that is reviewed by no one who understands it, grows exponentially and resists traditional refactoring, according to an unnamed senior enginee…
TikTok is running AI-generated, sexualized and racist ads for Finji's games without the publisher's knowledge or consent, according to Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman, who said the company has all AI features turned off and n…
AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection that deepens an existing epistemic crisis, according to author Cory Doctorow in his 20 Aug 2026 newsletter. Doctorow argues that deepfakes and AI-generated content, c…
A developer warns that interacting with AI agents without gratitude may train users to treat humans the same way, and that sudden access to agentic programming power could corrupt those unaccustomed to it. The author, wh…
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks announced a multiyear global alliance on August 20 to help organizations adopt AI securely and modernize cybersecurity, targeting $1 billion in joint business by 2029. The collaboration co…
Oura, the smart ring maker valued at $11 billion, faces a class action lawsuit filed Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco alleging false advertising over the accuracy of its AI-generated sleep tracking, claimin…
Apple has renewed its legal battle against OpenAI, alleging that the AI company misappropriated trade secrets related to Apple's hardware and product information. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. federal court, comes as OpenAI…
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT that lets users sort, analyze, edit, draft, and send messages directly from the chatbot, with the plugin also compatible with Codex and ChatGPT Work. The plugin ru…
A six-month study of 26,811 secondary school students in China found that those who used generative AI tools for homework saw their exam scores drop by 20% compared with non-users, even as their homework scores rose by 1…
Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU Stern, argues that the AI debate has gone off track, with advocates and skeptics talking past each other. He notes that AI's explosive growth since ChatGPT's launch in Novembe…
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant continues to draw criticism for privacy issues, according to Privacy Guides, which will host a livestream on Aug 21, 2026, to discuss the latest updates and trending privacy news. The eve…