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Court Documents Reveal Anthropic's Secret Plan to 'Destructively Scan All the Books in the World'
An internal memo uncovered in a copyright lawsuit shows the Claude maker ran a covert book-scanning project it deliberately hid under a codename.

A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect
ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.

A Private Chef Cooked Me a Free Three-Course Meal. The Catch: Every Knife Stroke Was Filmed to Train Robots.
A startup called Shift is trading free home services for something more valuable than cash: first-person video of skilled human hands, captured inside real homes to teach the next generation of household robots.

Every major AI model leans left on politics, even Grok, half the time
A small research lab ran 16 leading AI models through a well-known political quiz thousands of times. All but one landed consistently in the libertarian-left zone. The one exception was Elon Musk's Grok, which couldn't make up its mind.

Brain waves and borrowed muscles: the unusual data farms training tomorrow's robots
A startup is strapping brain-wave headsets onto warehouse workers to teach robots how to think on their feet. It turns out the real bottleneck in physical AI is not smarter software, it is raw data.

Sony Sues Udio Over More Than 30,000 Songs in Major AI Music Copyright Case
After a judge blocked Sony from expanding its original lawsuit, the record label has filed a fresh case targeting a vast catalogue of tracks the AI music tool allegedly copied without permission.

Suno Hacked: Breach Exposes How AI Music Tool May Have Scraped Millions of Songs
A hacker broke into Suno's systems in November 2025, accessed customer data, and found source code that reportedly shows the AI music generator pulled audio from YouTube, Deezer, and podcast feeds without permission.

Australian Labor MP warns colleagues: let AI companies write their own rules and you will fail
Ed Husic is pushing his own party to get tougher on big tech, as the country's creative workers union demands that AI firms stop using artists' work without permission.