Sony and Universal Music Group have filed a second lawsuit against AI music generator Suno, claiming its new v6 model infringes on their copyrights. The labels previously sued Suno over alleged infringement involving over 60,000 recordings.
Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times copyright case reveal Microsoft's Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht privately described AI training as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' Internal communications show both Microsoft and OpenAI knew scraping paywalled content would harm publishers.
Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton are demanding guarantees from OpenAI and Anthropic that proprietary corporate data won't be misused to train AI models, threatening to restrict or ban employee use of the services. Meanwhile, Microsoft is setting limits on future AI model development as industry concerns over intellectual property protection intensify.
Australia's ARIA removed AI-generated tracks from music charts, ruling recordings must be "substantially human-made," as the music industry intensifies efforts to combat streaming fraud and AI-generated content. The decision comes as AI-created music breaks into mainstream charts in South Korea.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement to build an AI-powered platform that will allow fans to create remixes, mashups, and new interpretations of licensed tracks from UMG artists who opt in to participate.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement to build an AI-powered platform that will allow fans to create remixes, mashups, and new interpretations of licensed tracks from UMG artists who opt in to participate.
The FBI, NSA, and CISA issued a joint alert accusing major Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba of conducting industrial-scale campaigns to extract proprietary knowledge from American AI models through a technique called distillation.
The Trump administration filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with the New York Times, arguing that training AI on copyrighted content doesn't violate copyright law and calling the AI industry a national security interest.
Authors expecting payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement are receiving notices that publishers and literary agents are claiming ownership rights over more than 482,000 books, potentially reducing individual author payouts of up to $3,000 per book. The dispute centers on who holds the rights to works used to train Anthropic's AI models.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company used copyrighted song compositions without authorization to train its Claude chatbot, including evidence the company used BitTorrent to obtain songbooks.
Major music publishers including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally used copyrighted songs to train its Claude model. The publishers are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per composition, calling it one of the largest thefts of intellectual property in history.
Cinema operators across the UK are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, including Meta's AI-powered eyewear, according to the UK Cinema Association. The restrictions are being implemented due to fears the devices could be used to pirate films and raise privacy issues.
Cinema operators across the UK are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, including Meta's AI-powered eyewear, according to the UK Cinema Association. The restrictions are being implemented due to fears the devices could be used to pirate films and raise privacy concerns.
Multiple legal disputes are underway to determine intellectual property rights for AI-generated works, including a case involving the viral 'Italian brainrot' character Tung Tung Sahur and News Corp's efforts to combat what it calls AI theft of copyrighted material.
Multiple legal disputes are underway to determine intellectual property rights for AI-generated works, including a case involving the viral 'Italian brainrot' character Tung Tung Sahur and News Corp's efforts to combat what it calls AI theft of copyrighted material.
Alphabet's Google won a bankruptcy auction to purchase internal business data from defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million, including approximately 600 million messages, over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, and other enterprise communications. The company plans to use the data for product development and AI model training.
An investigation using a hidden AirTag tracked rare books sold in bulk to Amazon's Las Vegas warehouse, where they are scanned for AI training data and destroyed in the process. The tracking device was placed in a 1,000-book shipment and led to warehouse LAS8, confirming long-standing suspicions from booksellers about the fate of rare texts.
Multiple technology companies are shifting AI training strategies to capture employee workflows and user-generated content. SpaceX announced it will train AI on all employee work product for Grok 4.6, while Amazon's Twitch faces backlash for using streamer content to train AI through an opt-out feature. Startups like Skan AI and Mechanize are raising funds to record and automate human work processes.
The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG) has asked France's competition authority to take action against Google's AI Overviews feature, arguing the AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results deprive news publishers of web traffic and violate Google's 2022 compensation commitments to French media.
Chinese AI companies are confronting a severe shortage of high-quality training data for developing next-generation language models, with Chinese accounting for only 1.3% of global web content compared to 49% for English. Beijing plans to create national datasets by 2028 to address the bottleneck.
The EU AI Act's General-Purpose AI Code enters enforcement Sunday, with the European Commission in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic following recent AI agent hacking incidents. OpenAI's pre-deadline compliance statement notably omits the copyright training data chapter required under the GPAI Code.
India's Delhi High Court issued an interim ruling on July 24, 2026, finding that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train ChatGPT fell under fair dealing and did not constitute copyright infringement.
Reddit has discussed shutting off Google's access to its content for AI training as its $60 million annual deal nears expiration. The company's stock fell 9% on the news amid concerns about declining referral traffic from Google.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly praised Chinese open-source AI models as 'excellent' and 'world class,' urging Washington not to ban them, even as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of scrutinizing Chinese models for stolen intellectual property. The comments come amid growing concern in Washington over low-cost Chinese AI models like Kimi that increasingly compete with American offerings.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the U.S. could impose sanctions on Chinese AI companies, particularly those developing open-source models, if evidence confirms they stole intellectual property from American AI developers. The statement represents an expansion of the Trump administration's efforts to counter China's AI advancement.
White House official Michael Kratsios claimed Moonshot accessed restricted Nvidia GB300 processors in Thailand and distilled its Kimi K3 model from Anthropic's Fable. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions remain on the table against Chinese AI companies over alleged IP theft.
Patreon has shifted from using robots.txt files to request AI bots not scrape creator content to actively blocking unauthorized AI training crawlers through Cloudflare's Crawl Control technology. The platform reports the new enforcement approach has significantly reduced scraping activity while still allowing legitimate search and discovery bots.
Music publisher Round Hill has filed lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic, alleging illegal scraping of copyrighted music for training data. The legal action follows a major leak of Suno's source code revealing the company trained its AI music generator on over 2 million scraped YouTube songs.
On 15 July 2026, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a national AI framework and new Office of AI, introducing mandatory standards for data centres on power and water use, and strengthening copyright protections for artists whose works are used to train AI models.
The New York Times and other publishers filed court documents accusing OpenAI of withholding evidence about how its AI systems are trained and used, requesting legal sanctions in their ongoing copyright lawsuit.
Meta unveiled multiple AI products in July 2026, including the Muse Spark 1.1 coding model for developers, a new AI image generator integrated into Instagram and chatbot services, and its first paid AI model tier. The releases triggered privacy backlash as Instagram began automatically allowing users' public posts to be used for AI training unless they opt out.
Cloudflare announced it will block AI training crawlers by default starting September 15, 2026, requiring AI companies to separate their search crawlers from training bots. Pages displaying ads will automatically block training and agent bots unless publishers explicitly allow access, forcing AI companies to negotiate payment for content.
A joint investigation by four Canadian privacy regulators concluded that OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws when training its ChatGPT model, resulting in the collection and use of sensitive personal information without proper consent or safeguards.
The Academy has ruled that AI-generated performances and screenplays are now ineligible for Oscar consideration, marking a significant policy shift in how the film industry treats AI-created content.
A German Higher Regional Court ruled that an AI-generated comic adaptation of a copyrighted photograph does not constitute copyright infringement as long as only the motif is copied, establishing new legal precedent for AI-generated derivative works.
Spotify announced it surpassed 300 million paid subscribers in Q2 2026 while securing a licensing agreement with Merlin, representing over 30,000 independent labels, for its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers tool. The paid feature will allow fans to create AI-generated remixes of participating artists' music, following an earlier partnership with Universal Music Group.
Rival AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have begun collaborating to prevent Chinese competitors from extracting results from cutting-edge U.S. AI models, marking an unprecedented cooperation among typically competing firms.
Folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered multiple AI-generated fake songs attributed to her on Spotify, becoming a target for both AI impersonation and copyright trolling in a case highlighting vulnerabilities in music platforms' content verification systems.
Anthropic issued mass DMCA takedown notices after accidentally exposing parts of Claude Code's internal source code in a recent release, inadvertently removing thousands of unrelated GitHub projects. The company has since retracted the bulk of the notices and called it an accident.
