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Three major publishers—Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier—along with bestselling author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Google on July 10, alleging the company copied millions of copyrig…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A round on July 8, pushing its valuation to $1 billion, to sell enterprises the compute and tooling to build and own their own AI models instead of renting them via APIs fr…
Aftr, an open-source Node controller for Adobe After Effects, lets users drive the software programmatically via JSON commands over WebSocket, enabling autonomous, spec-driven video pipelines that self-correct through re…
The spread of local AI models that can run on personal computers or smartphones is making copyright enforcement harder, according to a report from Communia and analysis on the IPKat blog. The EU Copyright Directive, pass…
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging the company infringed copyright by using their works to train its Gemini AI without permission…
Tyler Cowen announced on July 14, 2026, that his book 'GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?' now features updated software and AI enhancements. The update integrates generative AI into…
Google announced that Gmail's Help Me Write feature now lets users edit and revise email drafts via a custom prompt bar, allowing follow-up instructions to refine content. The update, rolling out July 14, 2026, is availa…
Anthropic, the world's most valuable AI startup, released a commercial during the World Cup quarterfinal that opens with images of a burning house and a cemetery, implying AI could kill us all, before pivoting to the tag…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a speech in Sydney on Wednesday comparing artificial intelligence's transformative potential to the renewable energy revolution, but will not address copyright reforms sought …
Researchers have introduced DUNE (Diffusion Unified Network refiNEr), a training-free framework that improves diffusion model outputs by detecting and suppressing abrupt fluctuations in deep latents, reducing artifacts a…
Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier and author Scott Turow sued Google on July 13 in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Google trained its Gemini AI models on millions of their copyrighted books withou…
Three major publishers—Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier—along with author Scott Turow filed a federal lawsuit against Google on July 15, 2026, accusing the tech giant of illegally using millions of cop…
AI-generated anime videos of the 2026 FIFA World Cup have gone viral across TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube, transforming soccer stars like Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi into shonen-style characters with …
A study by MIT Media Lab found that users relying on ChatGPT as a primary drafting tool showed 47% reduced neural connectivity compared to those who wrote without AI assistance, a phenomenon called cognitive debt. Margar…
Canva today unveiled Canva Code 2.0, an AI-powered vibe coding platform that lets users build and visually edit websites, apps, and interactive experiences. The update adds visual editing, HTML imports, and real-time col…
Publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, sued Google on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that Google illegally copied…
Generative AI is a firehose of mediocrity that drags operations toward the statistical mean, according to a set of five laws proposed by an unnamed author. The laws state that AI's advantages cannot be disentangled from …
The IG-GAN model, which leverages intrinsic geometry and Bézier surfaces to generate aerodynamic data, achieves a 97.41% reduction in predicted Mean Squared Error (MSE) for velocity prediction on the Burgers' equation da…
Meta's SAM 3 model natively performs promptable concept segmentation, accepting a plain-language prompt such as "helmet" or "safety vest" and returning pixel-level masks for every matching object in a single pass without…
Business Insider will host a live Q&A on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET with Mukund Jha, CEO and co-founder of vibe-coding startup Emergent, which raised $100 million as of January 2026. The discussion, part of BI's series 'The…