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Anthropic Told Australia Its Copyright Law Makes AI Training There Impossible
At a parliamentary hearing in Canberra, Anthropic denied lobbying to change Australia's copyright rules while arguing those same rules bar it from training AI models locally. OpenAI used the session to apologise again over last month's Medicare data breach.
Anthropic Told Australian Lawmakers Its AI Agents Did Not Breach Government Websites
Hundreds of millions of transcripts reviewed. No unauthorised access found. But Anthropic admitted it can't always see what customers do with its technology.
Suno Now Generates Spoken Voices, Not Just Songs
The AI music platform launches a public beta for speech synthesis, letting creators produce voiceovers and backing tracks in the same session. It's a real pivot for a company that, until two weeks ago, made only music.
Australia Is Thinking About Letting AI Companies Use Creatives' Work by Default
The Albanese government is pursuing a compromise with US tech giants that could open Australian creative works to AI training, and local artists aren't happy about it.
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.
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.
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.
Microsoft Says Copilot Almost Never Copies News Articles Word for Word. Publishers Aren't Convinced.
New court filings show Microsoft analysed 8.2 million chat logs to prove its AI assistant rarely reproduces copyrighted text. The legal battle with The New York Times and book authors is far from over.
The Trump Administration Just Took OpenAI's Side in the New York Times Copyright Case
Federal lawyers filed court papers arguing that training AI on news articles counts as fair use. The move could shape who pays, and who profits, if AI keeps feeding on published work.
Freelancers Are Drowning in AI Slop Cleanup Work, and Now They're Walking Away
A graphic designer in Spain spent most of 2024 fixing broken AI-generated logos for low pay. Her story captures a quiet crisis spreading across the freelance economy.
The 24-Person Brooklyn Startup That Can End a Book Deal
Pangram says it can tell whether writing is human or machine-generated. Publishers are listening. Writers are furious. The question is whether the tool is actually reliable.
Google Is Offering Hollywood Hundreds of Millions to Train Its AI on Movies and TV Shows
The tech giant wants studio libraries. The studios want the money. But the workers and audiences caught in the middle may pay the real price.
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.