A small UK software company which trademarked the name Threads over 10 years ago is demanding Meta stop using the name within 30 days

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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's Threads app.

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Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company, accusing it of 'systematic and widespread' infringement of song lyrics

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Bad Bunny is one artist represented by Universal Music Publishing.

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OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.'

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Sam Altman speaks to members of the media during Microsoft's announcement of a new, AI-powered Bing search at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.

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OpenAI's GPTBot and other AI web crawlers are being blocked by even more companies now

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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and an illustration of GPT-4.

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An amateur Scottish soccer club is accusing Elon Musk's SpaceX of stealing its logo, but says it doesn't plan on suing, and would rather he buys the team

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Dave Portnoy's Barstool Sports used sock puppet accounts to avoid copyright takedowns, Daily Beast reports

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Pulitzer Winner Michael Chabon Sues Meta for Allegedly Using His Copyrighted Material to Train AI

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Authors are suing Meta for allegedly using their works to train its Llama artificial intelligence software, according to a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

The US Copyright Office just took a big step toward new rules for generative AI

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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'Data leverage' and the Harry Potter test: How much is a single book worth to a giant AI model?

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Why New Zealand's golden kiwis are so expensive

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Golden kiwis are a pricey kiwi variety known for their yellow flesh and sweet taste. Created by Zespri, New Zealand's kiwifruit cooperative, golden kiwis saved the island nation's local kiwi industry after a disease destroyed most of its kiwi orchards back in 2010.

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