Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools

The collaboration will allow fans and artists to go in-depth on the music they love and create an artist incubator to explore AI in human creation.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-nvidia-ai-music-discovery-fan-engagement-tools/

#AI #Music

Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/

#ShadowLibraries

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

#AI #LLM #Healthcare

LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable

https://openfuture.eu/blog/laion-round-2-machine-readable-but-still-not-actionable/

#AI #TDM

How Mickey Mouse entered the Public Domain in 2024 – but not in Germany

https://communia-association.org/2024/09/02/how-mickey-mouse-entered-the-public-domain-in-2024-but-not-in-germany/

#PublicDomain #Copyright #Law

Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-copyright-threats/

#Copyright #Law

2025: The year in LLMs

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

#AI #LLM #2025

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-chief-ai-is-so-ubiquitous-it-will-be-more-practical-to-fingerprint-real-media-than-fake-media-202620080.html

#AI #Instagram

Who to follow for staying current with AI

https://nicolehennig.com/who-to-follow-for-staying-current-with-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/25/1130298/ai-wrapped-the-14-ai-terms-you-couldnt-avoid-in-2025/

#AI #2025

Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/smartphones-photos-filters-pictures-software

#Photography #Technology #AI

Reggaeton artists challenge originality of 'dembow' rhythm in copyright battle

https://www.courthousenews.com/reggaeton-artists-challenge-originality-of-dembow-rhythm-in-copyright-battle/

#Music #Copyright #Reggaeton #Dembow

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-music-library-leak-1236143970/

#Music #Copyright #ShadowLibraries

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-first-ai-models-analyze-language-as-well-as-a-human-expert-20251031/

#AI #LLM #Linguistics

What Smart People Are Saying About Disney's Deal With OpenAI

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-deal-openai-ai-sora-chatgpt-ip-analysis-2025-12

#AI #Disney #Film #Cinema

The 8 worst technology flops of 2025

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1130106/the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025/

#Technology

Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html

#AI #ComputerScience

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/nvidia-backed-starcloud-trains-first-ai-model-in-space-orbital-data-centers.html

#AI #Datacenters

Does AI Therapy Have a Future?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/does-ai-therapy-have-a-future/

#AI #Psychology

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-love-ai-why-doesnt-everyone

#AI

ADHD diagnoses are growing. What’s going on?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03855-2

#ADHD #Science

🫤 That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

https://venturebeat.com/ai/that-cheap-open-source-ai-model-is-actually-burning-through-your-compute-budget/

#Al #LLM

A new report reveals that Disney—the company that spent decades lobbying to extend copyright terms to protect Mickey Mouse—abandoned a deepfake Dwayne Johnson project purely over public domain fears.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/08/disney-scraps-deepfake-dwayne-johnson-after-lawyers-panic-about-the-public-domain/

#AI #Copyright #Disney

My Ethical AI Principles

https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-ethical-ai-principles.html

#AI #Ethics

Mixed Anthropic Ruling Builds Roadmap for Generative AI Fair Use

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/mixed-anthropic-ruling-builds-roadmap-for-generative-ai-fair-use

AI Authorship Revisited

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-authorship-revisited/

#AI #Copyright

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin broke down in tears meeting ‘de-extincted’ dire wolves

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/dire-wolves-extinction-george-rr-martin-b2729549.html

"Martin, who is an investor in Colossal and cultural adviser for the company, said in a statement: “Many people view dire wolves as mythical creatures that only exist in a fantasy world, but in reality, they have a rich history of contributing to the American ecosystem.”"

Thank you, AI girl.

Microsoft plans to invest $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-plans-spend-80-bln-ai-enabled-data-centers-fiscal-2025-cnbc-reports-2025-01-03/

#Microsoft #AI #Datacenters