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 Getty Images spending millions to battle a ‘world of rhetoric’ in AI suit, CEO says.

Getty Images spending millions to battle a ‘world of rhetoric’ in AI suit, CEO says.

2025-06-18 CNBC
Craig Peters, CEO of Getty Images, a world-famous U.S. photo agency, recently stated that the company is “spending millions of dollars” in a lawsuit against one of the most influential AI image generators currently on the tech scene. Stability AI, as well as many other models that offer image generation services, ...
 Orange Inc. Launches Emaqi Manga App in North America.

Orange Inc. Launches Emaqi Manga App in North America.

2025-06-17 Anitrendz
As a result of the recent “manga purge” that has taken place in the vast world of the Internet, several fans have been left without services through which to keep up to date with the latest chapters released. The removal of more than 700 titles from popular sites has undoubtedly affected the Japanese comics landsca...
 AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem.

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem.

2025-06-16 The Pragmatic Engineer - Newsletter
Today's reference article comes from a different source than our usual one, as it is a digression published within The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, run by Gergely Orosz, writer of “The Software Engineer's Guidebook.” Artificial intelligence is making its way within the work sector with excessive ease, and not on...
 VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.

2025-06-13 ArsTechnica
According to a recent investigation by Ars Technica, the online news outlet responsible for today's referenced article, Broadcom, one of the largest U.S. telecommunications networking companies, has reportedly begun sending termination letters to all owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts. ...
 Artist Shocked To Find Her Poster Designs From 2017 In Bungie's Marathon: 'A Major Company Has Deemed It Easier To Pay A Designer To Imitate Or Steal My Work Than To Write Me An Email'.

Artist Shocked To Find Her Poster Designs From 2017 In Bungie's Marathon: 'A Major Company Has Deemed It Easier To Pay A Designer To Imitate Or Steal My Work Than To Write Me An Email'.

2025-06-12 Kotaku
Last month, an artist made a series of rather interesting posts on her Bluesky account, recounting an unpleasant realization she had recently come to. The user, who goes by antire.al, claims, in fact, that some designs she created in 2017 were used without permission within a new video game from the studio Bungie, a fa...
 AI-hallucinated cases end up in more court filings, and Butler Snow issues apology for 'inexcusable' lapse.

AI-hallucinated cases end up in more court filings, and Butler Snow issues apology for 'inexcusable' lapse.

2025-06-11 ABA
Butler Snow, one of the most celebrated law firms within the United States of America, recently came under the spotlight of the media due to the misuse of artificial intelligence by some team members. The firm's lawyers allegedly used ChatGPT to conduct searches regarding a case they were handling, obtaining chatbot-ge...
 Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio.

Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio.

2025-06-10 Music Business Worldwide
According to Bloomberg in a June 1 article, three of the world's most celebrated record labels are currently reportedly seeking licensing rights from the Suno and Udio platforms. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment are currently in negotiations with the two mentioned AI music generat...
 Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring.

Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring.

2025-06-09 Techcrunch
The hiring process has never been particularly straightforward: the responsibility of adding the correct professional within a functioning team, or a company in need of expanding its horizons, is considerable, and places those in this role in somewhat awkward positions. Consequently, following this rapid spread of art...
 Teachers Are Not OK

Teachers Are Not OK

2025-06-06 404Media
Today's reference article is somewhat different from our usual content. The online news outlet 404Media recently conducted an investigation regarding the impact of artificial intelligence, and especially Large Language Models (LLMs), on the entire environment dedicated to education. In an attempt to shed some light on ...
 Government AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat.

Government AI copyright plan suffers fourth House of Lords defeat.

2025-06-05 BBC
For months now, the United Kingdom seems to have been in a rather uncomfortable impasse, an unpleasant situation seemingly lacking clear ways out, compromises that could reconcile the desires of different parties. The British government is quite adamant about its intention to introduce a rulethat would allow companies ...
 700+ Manga Wiped Overnight: Manga Industry Declares War on Piracy.

700+ Manga Wiped Overnight: Manga Industry Declares War on Piracy.

2025-06-04 Anime Senpai
During the second week in the month of May 2025, there occurred what was from the outset described as “the largestmanga purge to date.” Enthusiasts and frequent users of sites such as MangaDex, in fact, suddenly found themselves deprived of comic book content that had become a guarantee in their daily lives. More t...
 EUIPO releases study on generative artificial intelligence and copyright.

EUIPO releases study on generative artificial intelligence and copyright.

2025-06-03 EUIPO
The European Union's intellectual property office recently published a study on the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and copyright. This technology has rapidly spread throughout the world and within most professional (and non-professional) contexts, considerably affecting the ethical and economi...
 Sony, Bandai Namco, and Gaudiy Launch Strategic Partnership.

Sony, Bandai Namco, and Gaudiy Launch Strategic Partnership.

2025-05-30 My Anime List
Today's article is a translation from Japanese of an article published on the PR Times website. The Japanese multinational Sony recently announced the start of a rather interesting partnership. Together with compatriot holding company Bandai Namco, the companies have invested 10 billion yen, equivalent to about 70 mil...
 How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search.

How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search.

2025-05-29 Press Gazette
The legal status of a search engine is not exactly one of the most touted topics in the daily lives of most people: users are understandably so accustomed to using the service that they do not even remotely think about the possibility that the service is substandard. However, according to U.S. law, Google currently hol...
 M&S says customer data stolen in cyber attack.

M&S says customer data stolen in cyber attack.

2025-05-28 BBC
British multinational Marks & Spencer recently fell victim to a serious cyber attack. About a month ago, the London-based retailer was targeted by unknown agents intent on stealing private customer data - including phone numbers, dates of birth and residential addresses. According to Stuart Machin, the CEO of M&S, ther...
 Elton John and Dua Lipa seek protection from AI.

Elton John and Dua Lipa seek protection from AI.

2025-05-27 BBC
Sir Keir Starmer, current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recently received an urgent letter signed by more than 400 creative people, including British musicians, artists and writers. Within the latter, representatives of the nation's arts industry stressed the critical importance of timely action against the lib...