UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries
Lindsay Clark / theregister - House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth Britain's creative industries will face significant damage unless the government strengthens AI copyright law, according to a House of Lords committee…
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Ubisoft Confirms Long-Rumored Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake and More
techpowerup - An Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake has been rumored for years at this point, with the most recent rumors claiming a 2026 launch date, but now, the new Assassin's Creed Head of Content, Jean Guedon, has confirmed in a recent brand update blog post that …
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Supreme Court Declines Case on Granting Copyright to AI-Created Art
Omar Gallaga / cnet - A piece of AI-generated art is still the subject of a prolonged legal fight, 14 years after its creation.
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DeepIP Secures $25M Series B To Transform Patent Workflows With AI
Clinton / ventureburn - DeepIP Raises $25M To Modernise Patent Workflows Patent workflows have long been fragmented. Professionals often juggle multiple tools as patent application volumes grow and IP talent remains scarce. DeepIP aimsThe post DeepIP Secures $25M Series B To Tra…
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Supreme Court Declines AI Copyright Case, Extending Legal Setback for AI-Generated Works
Jason Nelson / decrypt - U.S. justices leave human authorship rule intact, reinforcing legal limits on AI intellectual property claims.
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Judge dismisses Elon Musk’s xAI trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - US District Judge Rita F. Lin dismissed a trade secret lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI against OpenAI. The judge ruled that xAI’s complaint failed to allege misconduct directly by OpenAI itself, instead attributing alleged actions to eight former employe…
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U.S. sanctions Russian firm Operation Zero following crypto-funded trade secret theft
Sarah Wynn / theblock - The Treasury’s OFAC has sanctioned the Russian company Operation Zero following the guilty plea of a man who admitted to stealing software.
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs
BeauHD / slashdot - Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be "a top three…
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…
- Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
- Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
- Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
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Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Carly Page / theregister - Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and securi…
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Sony Kills Bluepoint Games: Why the Demon’s Souls Studio is Closing
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Sony has officially closed Bluepoint Games, the Austin-based studio renowned as the industry’s premier specialist for high-end remakes. The move marks a sudden end for the developer, which Sony only officially acquired in 2021 after years of successful pa…
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Google Gemini adds Lyria 3, an AI model that can create music with words and photos
digitaltrends - Lyria 3 can take your words, photos, and videos, and turn them into a custom 30-second track with lyrics in tow. It's free to use and available within the Gemini. tool picker. The post Google Gemini adds Lyria 3, an AI model that can create music with wor…
- Google launches Lyria 3 in Gemini, generates 30-second songs instantly (8)
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Google launches Lyria 3 in Gemini, generates 30-second songs instantly
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Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'
Andre Revilla / engadget - Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a preliminary win in a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool Sora cannot use the term 'cameo' or any var…
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NVIDIA Sells Remaining $140 Million Stake in Arm, Keeps Licensing Ties
techpowerup - Once a target of the largest industry acquisition that was halted by market regulators, NVIDIA has officially divested all its holdings in Arm Holdings PLC by selling 1.1 million shares, valued at about $140 million at the time of writing. Importantly, th…
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Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die
mashable - Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.
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ByteDance to curb AI video app after Disney legal threat
bbc - Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.
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Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
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Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.
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From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to Moltbot, reaching 100,000 GitHub stars.The post From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time ap…
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