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RPCS3 emulator devs slam Nvidia DLSS 5 as 'AI-slop generator' — says industry pushing 'more upscalers and frame generation to hallucinate games and hide their lack of optimisation'
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US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
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US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material | TechCrunch
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A viral 1990s-style sitcom is putting an AI slop spin on ‘Friends.’ And people can’t look away
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Donald Trump’s administration just sided with OpenAI in a key ‘fair use’ case. Here’s what it means for music’s fight with Anthropic and Suno. - Music Business Worldwide
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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
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Four artists explore AI's effect on culture as part of Serpentine's new art and technology fellowship
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This clever app turns photos of everyday objects into an aesthetic file system
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Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels to help record companies manage and distribute lyrics at scale - Music Business Worldwide
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Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 arrives September 3rd and requires serious GPU horsepower
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Jason Isbell and David Lowery are suing Suno in a class action suit. Importantly, they’re hitting Mikey Shulman’s company with identity claims – not copyright. - Music Business Worldwide
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Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design | TechCrunch
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Udio continues to argue that its AI training was ‘quintessential fair use’ – and says, even if it infringed Sony Music’s recordings, damages should be ‘as low as $200 per work’ - Music Business Worldwide
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Suno and Bright Data sued again by ‘Blurred Lines’ lawyer Richard Busch – this time for Regional Mexican label Gerencia 360 - Music Business Worldwide
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Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 will launch September 3 with NBA2K27, company shares first benchmarks — available on all RTX 50 series GPUs, laptops, and GeForce NOW
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DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases
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DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans
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Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report
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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"
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AI-generated videos are already displacing actors and livestreamers across China's entertainment industry
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Using AI to write wedding vows? Nearly half of people wouldn’t mind, says survey
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Judge refuses to dismiss indie artist’s proposed class action against Suno, clearing AI output and stream-ripping claims for discovery - Music Business Worldwide
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ElevenLabs adds section-by-section song editing to ElevenMusic, as Suno, Udio, and Google build out rival tools - Music Business Worldwide
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Judge clears UMG and Sony to accuse Suno of pirating YouTube via ‘stream ripping’ to train its AI - Music Business Worldwide
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Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
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Luminate launches AI music identification framework, with ‘AI Generated’ labels reaching CONNECT later this year - Music Business Worldwide
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ARIA blocks AI-generated recordings from Australia’s official charts - Music Business Worldwide
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Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content — developer reverse engineers GUID embedding
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Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark
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Nine CEO confident new AI laws will deliver a ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs
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Universal, Sony, Warner join $76M funding round in Stability AI - Music Business Worldwide
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Australia bans songs heavily created by AI from its official music charts
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Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
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‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’
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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users | TechCrunch
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UMG-backed Music IP Holdings unveils AI music patent portfolio, aiming to ‘set a standard for how AI and music grow together’ - Music Business Worldwide
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Apple Music to slap AI labels on Suno tracks – but pushes the onus onto record companies - Music Business Worldwide
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Player builds working AI chatbot in vanilla Minecraft using 445K command blocks — clever approach shrank initial block count from over 1 million, requires no mods, plugins, or datapacks to work
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Exclusive: China’s YouTube, Bilibili, plans global expansion, English-language site
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Universal Music Group partners with Hook to license fan-created content across social media - Music Business Worldwide
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Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
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Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for up to $1B apiece. It isn’t looking to settle. - Music Business Worldwide
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Alibaba launches AI song generator HappyShrimp 1.0 in beta, with China’s Taihe Music signed up for artist co-creation - Music Business Worldwide
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Warner Music Group to open tech hub in Bengaluru, led by Mahesh Rao - Music Business Worldwide
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Claude Code gets a /design command that lets developers create UI mockups right in the terminal
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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does
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AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training
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This AI startup is using self-driving car technology to bring 3D video to live sports
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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI | TechCrunch
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Jamendo drops its copyright infringement lawsuit against Suno, six weeks after filing it - Music Business Worldwide
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Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
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Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
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Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report | TechCrunch
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After Universal and Merlin deals, Spotify inks agreement with Kobalt for AI-powered ‘fan-made’ covers and remixes - Music Business Worldwide
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Ticketmaster launches connected app in Google’s Gemini, a day after the AI assistant passed 1B monthly users - Music Business Worldwide
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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data
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‘The real debate isn’t AI versus artists - it’s whether innovation and rightsholder participation can coexist.’ - Music Business Worldwide
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Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them
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Suno brings its voice clone tool to iOS and Android, opens a limited version to free users - Music Business Worldwide
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HoverAir unveils the Versa modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone — Modular camera transforms into an auto-tracking drone by magnetically snapping together for instant palm launch and AI tracking
SourcesTom’s Hardware
AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns
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Warner Music expects Suno, Udio deals to boost subscription streaming revenue
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Ancestry used AI to uncover a mind-blowing family connection. Now the company is trying to do it again
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Suno muscles into vinyl market, plans to let users press their AI songs onto 12-inch records - Music Business Worldwide
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Adobe’s new plug-in turns ChatGPT into a Canva rival with a magical twist
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Suno becomes first customer of Musixmatch’s Sentinel, which screens AI prompts and outputs for copyrighted material - Music Business Worldwide
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Symphonic partners with ArtyShield to give artists tools that protect their music and voices from unauthorized AI use - Music Business Worldwide
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Anthropic seeks partial dismissal in music publishers’ $3B lyrics suit – as CEO moves to drop the direct-infringement claim against him - Music Business Worldwide
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Court declines to dismiss independent artists’ copyright class action against Udio – but moves the case from Illinois to New York - Music Business Worldwide
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