This week
AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
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The Next Web Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
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The Verge Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
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MIT Technology Review This month
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
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TechCrunch Sony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Claude Lyric Training
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+6Covered by 9 sources “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
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Ars Technica OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
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+1Covered by 4 sources AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
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TechCrunch Round Hill Sues Suno, Anthropic — Illegally Scraped Music Isn't Fair Use
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Forbes Google Aims to Boost AI with Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
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Hacker News Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
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+1Covered by 4 sources AI Data Wars Begin As Google, Mercor And Micro1 Bid For Spirit’s Data
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Forbes We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
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+3Covered by 6 sources Dutch data protection authority advises Twitch users to opt out from Amazon AI
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Hacker News Google is buying Spirit Airlines' old data for $10 million to improve its AI
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Covered by 3 sources Round Hill Music Sues Suno and Anthropic for $1B over AI Training Data
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Hacker News OpenAI Scales Back AI Development, but it Could be Too Late
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AI Business AI companies are desperate for your work-related data. What's your price?
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Business Insider Twitch CPO squirms, admits everyone hates its new AI training 'feature'
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Hacker News Elon Musk tells staff Grok will be trained on all of SpaceX's data: 'It will inherit your thoughts and ideas'
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Covered by 2 sources Rocky Linux Founder Kurtzer Launches OpenWALDO to Open Up AI Training Data
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Hacker News A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion
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Hacker News AI companies keep destroying old books. Heres why.
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Mashable Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.
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The Next Web Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
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Wired AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left
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The Next Web Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
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The Next Web Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
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+2Covered by 5 sources Midjourney turns the tables, demanding the studios suing it reveal their AI
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The Next Web I don't want a US tech bro as a patron - which is why artists must defend our copyright in the age of AI | Anna Funder
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The Guardian Weird Al Yankovic Would’ve Been the Funniest ‘Poster Boy for AI’
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Gizmodo Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
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The Next Web Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
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The Next Web The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding | Arwa Mahdawi
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The Guardian UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
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The Next Web News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it
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The Next Web Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI
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Futurism Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI
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Gizmodo YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel
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The Next Web Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm
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The Guardian AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job
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Gizmodo Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit
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Futurism Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid
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TechCrunch Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
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The Guardian News Corp says media is a valuable ‘input’ for AI as US$50m content deal inked with Meta
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The Guardian That's everything we have on AI Training Data right now