Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
It's a total reshaping of how people make money on the internet. Full story: techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/c... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com : “Deeply concerned that the incentives for content creatio...
A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old who has gone by “Big Balls” online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned
www.wired.com/story/big-ba... Anna Holmes / @annabookwriter : Lol happy trails, Big Balls, this is what happens when you throw your lot in with dudes who famously screw over their contractors [embedde...
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed
www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : Both Intellectual Pro...
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they actually making????...
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about the ingestion prior ...
Viral influencer Haliey Welch's Hawk Tuah memecoin sparks outrage across social media after pumping to a $490M market cap and then dumping 90%+ in three hours
A smart mark is still a mark. [embedded post] @kosso.co.uk : Memecoins on Solana are very much designed for young teenagers to spaff all their wallets. — I thought the Binance chain and Ethereum me...
A look at Calliope Networks, a content licensing company whose License to Scrape program is targeting YouTubers to strike their own AI training data agreements
Kate Knibbs / Wired : X: @alexalarga and @knibbs . LinkedIn: Dave Davis X: Alex Alarga / @alexalarga : @WIRED An interesting article picture. I imagine that for the other platforms the depiction woul...
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty
Google Translate at least changed it to “Cinema Love.")" ~@Knibbs https://www.wired.com/... Kevin Dominik Korte / @kedkorte : We ask drone operators to wear orange vests to make them visible due to th...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...