GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions…

GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany

While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions taking place in Germany. We've had the LAION saga, but most importantly, the German collective society GEMA has been extremely busy litigating in this space, leading to a couple of landmark decisions, last year's…

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AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete

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Reading this interview with new @bsky.app CEO and he says this: “It [Bluesky] doesn’t have algorithms.” So… how does the ‘Discover‘ feed work?

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Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…

Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law

One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.

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I wrote a thing about the current AI and books ‘scandal’ that’s rocking certain sections of social networks. petergasston.co.uk/ai-books-not...

Google just released Lyria 3.5, and it’s a big improvement in every aspect. Here’s a test I made, summarising The Odyssey in the style of late-80s commercial party rap.

Literally 100s of millions of books are destroyed each year because they don’t sell. It’s hard to get an exact number because the publishing industry doesn’t want to talk about it. The last available UK figures showed 77 million books destroyed in 2009. www.maastrichtdiplomat.org/post/pulping...

Notable: researchers using Anthropic/Claude are credited in four MacOS fixes and two iOS fixes in Apple’s 26.6 security updates.

I strongly believe that LinkedIn shouldn’t be sending me notifications on a Sunday that someone I worked with eight years ago liked a post by someone I’ve never heard of.

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video…

OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit

A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement during the training phase, as well as reproduction of its articles on the output phase.

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I wrote the latest of my occasional guides to which AI to use right now for non-experts who want to get stuff done. The agentic systems available to everyone are getting extremely powerful (even as the names and features continue to be really confusing): www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinion...

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

The Summer 2026 Edition

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Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark? A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take,…

Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark?

A few days ago there was an interesting post by Andrew Curran that got a lot of responses which was discussing why AI in science fiction often does not have the capabilities that AI already has in reality. I thoroughly agree with that take, but I think that there is much more going on in why AI in science fiction often feels wrong, and I think that it has to do with the reasons why we have artificial intelligence in media in the first place.

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AI is an amazing scapegoat for people who make stupid and shitty decisions.

I think films used to be better when the end credits had a rap summarising the story. So I made this for The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan, you’re welcome.

this article opens with 10 paragraphs about Daniel Stenberg and cURL’s slop problem as of January without mentioning that in April he said: ”The slop situation is not a problem anymore” and AI reports ”are mostly very high quality” daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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This was one of those impressive AI thresholds for me. I gave GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex control over my computer, and asked it to win the daily challenge for the game Slay the Spire 2 (randomized factors, so can't cheat). Its a complex game. It worked for 5 hours, making complex game choices... and won.

This is about lawyers, but applicable everywhere; we blame the technology and absolve the humans of personal responsibility. www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/06/30/i...

It’s Not the AI. It’s the Lawyer: We Don’t Have a Hallucination Problem, We Have a Serious Ethics Problem - AI Law Librarians

Guest Post: Charlie Amiot I. How We Got Here Recently I was chatting with a friend from law school who has been a practicing lawyer for seven-plus years and whom I've known for 11+ years. I have a gre...

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I wrote a short post on how I think most of my commentary on AI and the environment is actually a normative rather than factual disagreement with the mainstream, and how that's ultimately rooted in the ethical philosophy of political liberalism. blog.andymasley.com/p/toward-env...

Toward environmental liberalism

The underlying normative claim of my environmental writing

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tilly norwood is actually genuinely interesting not as an AI “actress” but as a marketing story, because we have gotten a truly incredible number of credulous pieces in serious outlets on what is, essentially, vaporware

Eric Wickham@ericwickham.ca · 4w ago

All of the words in this post are nonsense and it is my professional opinion that none of you should read this article.

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Friday! Lunchtime! Weary words and the very hottest of links from a man who may well EXPIRE this weekend - in case I do, the least you can do is click (also, it's full of GREAT STUFF). Web Curios! Share, enjoy, pray for me! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-10...

When GPT-5 came out, I created a procedural brutalist city builder as a demo (you can see it at the video's start) I used GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex to do the same thing, touching no code. Less than a year... Play with it (its fun, if you like architecture): monument-brutalist-city-builder.netlify.app

Very impressed with Muse Image. Visual quality and prompt following are excellent (1), it can run code to include graphics (2) and it’s really interesting to see the ‘self-refinement’ checking its own output for best results (3). Even more interesting: self-refinement is an emergent feature (4). #AI

Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright? For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. This has…

Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright?

For years I was not really interested in the subject of AI consciousness, it was one of those subjects that I equated with unreasonableness at the extremes of the debate, but in which I did not have any strong opinions. This has been changing recently as the capabilities of AI continue to improve, and I have begun to wonder about what could any sort of intelligence could mean from a legal perspective, particularly for copyright.

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the GOAT has struck again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYe9...

Gianni Infantino - Today I Feel Rich (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by demonflyingfox

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Comparing six of the current best text-to-image models (GPT-Image-2, Reve 2.1, Muse Image, Nano Banana 2, MAI-Image-2.5, and Seedream 5.0 Pro) using the same prompt. Image quality and prompt understanding are more or less on par among the top models now. #AI

Ode Poetry matches your mood with a short poem. odepoetry.ai

Yep, I'm going to have so much fun with my replacement air filter.

‘Assistive AI’ is AI that *I* use, ‘generative AI’ is AI that *you* use. Hope that settles it.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."

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