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Round Hill Music filed copyright lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic, alleging the AI companies used more than 500 of its songs to train AI systems without permission or compensation. Separately, Jamendo dropped its copy…
AMD, Spectro Cloud, and Supermicro launched AMD Instinct Coder, a turnkey on-prem AI coding appliance that runs inference locally on AMD Instinct GPUs, claiming up to 95% cost savings and 70% lower costs compared to fron…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, announced that future versions of Claude will embed text watermarks by subtly altering word choices in generated text, a method the company says is undetectable to readers and doe…
Google won a bidding war, paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 500 million Teams messages, according to a bankruptcy court filing dated August 14. The data, which excludes customer information…
Christoph Rumpel, a coding video creator, says AI is transforming his work in three ways: AI now assists in video production, feature-focused tutorials are losing relevance as developers ask AI agents for answers, and fe…
AI detectors, including watermarking methods from AI labs and third-party tools like Pangram, are a bad idea because they cannot measure the human effort behind a text, leading to the dismissal of legitimate work as AI s…
University of Michigan professor Felipe A. Csaszar argues that generative AI can expand corporate strategy-making beyond traditional frameworks by simulating thousands of scenarios, moving from bounded rationality to AI-…
Faculty are debating how to guide junior colleagues on using generative AI in scholarship, with concerns about offloading core academic tasks, citation biases, and the need for clear definitions of AI use. An internal co…
Nova3D, a system that generates 3D assets as executable Blender source code, produces a valid artifact for all 54 items in its Nova3D-Bench benchmark, with every asset exposing named parts in a parent-child assembly tree…
OpenAI launched a referral program on August 18 that rewards ChatGPT Free users in India, Indonesia, and Mexico with doubled usage limits for each qualifying referral, stacking up to three referrals for 21 days of double…
Converge AI, founded by Oliver Zhang, launched a unified platform on August 18 connecting four specialized AI products—Converge Work, Enter Pro, Framia Pro, and Combos Fun—through a shared business context layer, with Co…
In a blog post published on August 18, 2026, author Cory Doctorow argues that expanding copyright to ban AI training will not protect artists' livelihoods from AI-driven wage erosion, asserting that property rights canno…
Meta Platforms ran ads for Kromix, an AI tool that promised to create nonconsensual intimate imagery of female US politicians, despite Meta's policies against sexual content. The ads, targeted exclusively at male users, …
A personal essay argues that education's response to AI mirrors its historical reactions to writing and calculators, with the Higher Education Policy Institute's 2026 student survey finding that 95% of UK undergraduates …
Ojin launched its Real-Time GenAI Platform, enabling developers to deploy conversational AI agents with lifelike avatars in about two minutes via a single widget embed. The platform offers two face models, ojin/oris-pres…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever be a foolproof identification method, saying simple marks can be cropped or edited out and sophisticated text watermarks can be de…
Abode Luxury Rentals, which manages more than 200 luxury vacation homes in Park City, Jackson Hole, and Sun Valley, has created fictional narratives for nearly 200 properties to boost visibility in AI-generated travel re…
A 2024 creative writing experiment with 293 participants found that AI-assisted stories were judged more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, but also more similar to each other, indicating AI can raise individu…
Unconventional thought is becoming a key differentiator as AI excels at average tasks, according to a blog post. The author argues that individuals must cultivate novel, contradictory, and controversial ideas by connecti…
Google published an open-source Customer Support & Returns Agent on August 17 that demonstrates three infrastructure controls—signed database writes, isolated code execution, and deterministic action checks—to constrain …