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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Suno launches its v6 AI music model family, now trained exclusively on licensed music from major partners like Warner Music Group and BMG, but the company still faces active lawsuits from Sony and Universal Music Group amid ongoing legal battles over AI and copyright.
An Anthropic researcher resigns and warns that AI could kill humanity this decade, while a senior colleague puts the odds above 10% and admits no control plan exists — as music AI startup Suno launches licensed v6 models in partnership with major labels.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the tech giants illegally used their journalism as AI training data without permission, reproducing passages in AI responses and costing publishers vital subscription revenue and site traffic.