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Internal concerns emerge over AI training and the future of journalism

Recently unsealed court documents have shed new light on internal concerns within Microsoft and OpenAI over the impact of artificial intelligence systems on journalism and the use of news content to train large language models. The disclosures form part of a closely watched copyright dispute involving......

SpaceX explores buying data from failed companies to train Grok

SpaceX is reportedly exploring the possibility of acquiring customer and operational data from struggling or defunct companies as it seeks additional material to train its artificial intelligence systems, including Grok. According to reports citing people familiar with the discussions, the idea remains......

US newspapers take OpenAI and Microsoft to court over news content

Two major US newspapers have escalated the growing dispute between the media industry and artificial intelligence companies by filing a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over the alleged use of journalistic content without authorization. The Seattle Times and Newsday filed the case in the US District......

Meta smart glasses face privacy lawsuit over alleged unauthorized data collection

Meta is facing an expanded class-action lawsuit accusing the technology company of misleading consumers about the privacy protections surrounding its AI-powered smart glasses. The amended complaint broadens the group of potential plaintiffs beyond people who own or use the glasses to include individuals......

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over alleged use of copyrighted music in AI training

Sony Music and Warner Music have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing the company of unlawfully using copyrighted musical works to train its Claude AI models. The music companies allege that Anthropic reproduced and used hundreds of......

Bloomsbury to receive compensation under landmark $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement

Bloomsbury Publishing has confirmed it will receive compensation as part of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement resolving claims that artificial intelligence company Anthropic used copyrighted books to train its AI models without obtaining the necessary licenses. The agreement, approved by a U.S. federal......

Anthropic reaches $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors over AI training data

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with a group of authors and publishers over allegations that copyrighted books were used without authorization to train its Claude chatbot. The settlement, approved by a U.S. federal court, is considered one of......

Google claims YouTube terms allow AI music training rights

Google has asked a US federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by independent musicians over the use of copyrighted music to train its AI music model. The company argues that content uploaded to YouTube falls under a broad licensing agreement that authorises reuse by Google and its affiliates. The......

Zyphra's sub-billion parameter AI model matches industry giants on reasoning benchmarks

San Francisco-based AI startup Zyphra has released ZAYA1-8B, a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with only 760 million active parameters that matches or outperforms significantly larger models on mathematics, coding, and reasoning benchmarks, while having been trained entirely on AMD hardware. The release......