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Meta Removes Terms Provision Legal Experts Said Could Allow AI Scraping

Oct 18, 2026

TechCrunch

Meta removes a provision from its commercial terms of use that legal experts told Nieman Lab could let it scrape business account domains and URLs to train its AI models. The Verge reports the removal. A Meta spokesperson says the terms only covered ads and business products and that crawling practices do not change.

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Google Says Over 400 Publications Join News AI Pilot, Adding CNN and Axios

Oct 16, 2026

Google

Google says more than 400 news publications now participate in its News AI pilot program, expanded from launch partners including The Washington Post. New partners include Axios, CNN, The Financial Times, Forbes, the Texas Tribune and Post and Courier. Google pays publishers for content used in AI features like article overviews and audio briefings.

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SPUR Adds the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Economist, Topping 80 Members

Oct 14, 2026

The Deep View

SPUR added more than 40 members on Tuesday, including The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Economist, bringing the coalition to 80 members across more than 20 countries. Formed in February 2026, SPUR pushes licensing as the default for AI use of copyrighted media. It published a Content Telemetry Standard to track training data.

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Anthropic Urges Australia to Allow AI Training on Copyrighted Works Through Opt-Out System

Oct 02, 2026

the Guardian

Anthropic now urges Australia to let AI firms train on copyrighted works unless rightsholders opt out, while ABC and SBS demand that AI companies face media-style copyright, defamation and privacy rules and warn robots.txt exclusions are easily bypassed.

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Oxford gives OpenAI 125,000 Bodleian thesis scans to train AI models

Sep 28, 2026

TNW | Artificial-intelligence

Oxford gives OpenAI 125,000 scanned 19th- and 20th-century PhD theses from the Bodleian Library to train AI models, despite staff concerns over reputational risk and AI energy use; the out-of-copyright files are due online within months.

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Unsealed Filings Show Microsoft Director Calls AI News Scraping "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History"

Sep 17, 2026

Ars Technica

Unsealed court filings reveal Microsoft director Brent Hecht calls AI news scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history," while records show some publisher click-through rates fall 83–93% and OpenAI allegedly trains on a 1.8 million-article New York Times dataset despite internal concerns.

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OpenAI Claims AI Agents Solve Navier–Stokes Problem as Mathematicians Allege Uncredited Work

Sep 15, 2026

MIT Technology Review

OpenAI claims its AI agents prove that full Navier–Stokes equations can break down, but mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge allege the result draws on their uncredited AI-assisted work; OpenAI denies accessing their transcripts.

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ElevenMusic Launches Music v2.5 With Richer AI Tracks and Expanded Lossless Downloads

Sep 14, 2026

ElevenMusic

ElevenMusic launches Music v2.5 as its default AI music model, promising richer melodies and more natural instruments while giving free users five lossless downloads daily and Pro users 400 monthly.

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UMG Lets Artists Opt In to ElevenLabs AI Music Platform

Sep 11, 2026

The Verge

Universal Music Group lets its artists opt into a new ElevenLabs platform that licenses their music for AI use, while keeping it separate from ElevenLabs’ Music API and ElevenMusic generator and continuing parallel work with Udio.

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UMG Lets Fans Create Remixes and Personalized Vocal Experiences Through New ElevenLabs Platform

Sep 11, 2026

ElevenLabs

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs are developing a licensed fan-creation platform for remixes, mashups, alternate versions and personalized vocal experiences from participating artists’ music, with creators promised compensation and new revenue streams.

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