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.

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios

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A WGA picket references AI.

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Judge Rules Wholly AI-Created Art Can't Get Copyright Protections

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For those in the entertainment industry (and creative fields more generally), AI has been an extremely divisive topic.

OpenAI could face a plagiarism lawsuit from The New York Times as tense negotiations threaten to boil over, report says

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The New York Times' office and Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO.

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An author is suing Apple and Tetris, accusing them of adapting his book about the game into a film without permission, listing 22 similarities

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Taron Egerton, Sofia Lebedeva and Nikita Efremov in "Tetris."

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OpenAI just admitted it has a bot that crawls the web to collect AI training data. If you don't block GPTbot, that's self-sabotage.

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Huntsman spider.

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Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Author Backlash

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Prosecraft.io, a site that used novels to help power a data-driven project to display word count, passive voice, and other much more subjective, writing-style markers such as vividness, shut down today after authors protested the project.

87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered.' As a millennial, I'm worried it means a huge chunk of my childhood will disappear.

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A vintage game console, by the Nintendo Game Boy handheld system, when it was released in Japan in 1989. Since then this pocket system has sold over 100 million unit.
87% of classic video games are 'critically endangered,' a new study says.

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Llama copyright drama: Meta stops disclosing what data it uses to train the company's giant AI models

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Ed Sheeran plagiarism trial erupts in laughs over nerdy, computer-generated version of 'Let's Get It On'

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Soul icon Marvin Gaye, left. Very much not Marvin Gaye, right.

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