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Families Sue Meta Over Claims It Used Facebook Photos to Build Secret Face Recognition
A federal lawsuit filed in Chicago accuses Meta of harvesting faceprints from millions of user photos without consent to power NameTag and two AI image systems.
Australia May Let AI Companies Train on Your Photos and Websites Unless You Say No
Leaked documents suggest the Albanese government is weighing a plan that would flip the default: your content is fair game for AI training unless you take steps to block it.
Australia may let AI companies scrape everything you post online, by default
The Albanese government is weighing changes that would give US tech giants open access to Australian content. Here is what that means for anyone who has ever posted, written or created anything on the internet.
Publishers and agents are claiming money from the Anthropic copyright settlement that may not be theirs
Authors who expected a $3,000 payout per pirated book are finding publishers claiming rights they lost years ago, and literary agents grabbing percentages they were never owed.
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Warning AI Could Break Journalism 'Beyond Repair'
Two regional American newspapers have joined a growing legal pile-on against the companies behind ChatGPT, arguing that AI systems are consuming news content and handing back cheap imitations without permission or payment.
Ukraine is selling drone war data to AI companies, and the rules haven't caught up
Millions of hours of battlefield footage are flowing to defence firms and tech start-ups. The data is valuable, the privacy risks are real, and almost nothing governs what happens next.
The robot that learned to scoop: why food is the toughest test for physical AI
Chef Robotics has served 118 million portions in real kitchens and used that experience to build what it calls the world's largest dataset for robots handling soft, unpredictable materials. Now it wants to take those lessons far beyond food.
AfterQuery hits a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, breaking Y Combinator's speed record
The AI training-data startup went from a $300 million Series A to unicorn status faster than any company in Y Combinator's history. Its founders are 22 and 23 years old.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic for Billions Over AI Training Data
The lawsuit names Anthropic co-founders personally and alleges employees downloaded millions of pirated books and scraped licensed song lyrics to train the Claude AI.
Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk, Its 21-Year-Old Human Task Platform
The crowdsourced work service that paid hundreds of thousands of workers pennies per task will close on 30 September 2026, leaving some full-time data workers scrambling.
EXL Buys AI Training Firm iMerit to Close the Gap Between AI Demos and Real Business Results
The New York services giant completed its purchase of iMerit this month, gaining the human expertise and data preparation work that AI models need before they can function reliably in hospitals, factories, and financial firms.
He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.
Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.
Amazon and Twitch Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Using Streamers' Videos to Train AI
A Connecticut streamer is leading a lawsuit on behalf of millions of Twitch broadcasters who say Amazon fed their live videos into AI training systems without asking first.
Children learn language on a fraction of the data AI needs. Scientists want to know why.
A toddler masters grammar after hearing roughly 10 million words. A large language model may consume 15 trillion. Closing that gap could reshape how AI is built.