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Eric Adams battles tense crowd as Wisconsin audience erupts over AI data center proposal
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faced a hostile reception in Wisconsin while pitching a proposal for a new artificial intelligence data centre, with members of the audience repeatedly interrupting him with chants of “You belong in prison!” The confrontation reflects the wider public unease many US communities have voiced over AI data centre…
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James Gray Says AI Is ‘Worthless’ and Explains Why, Despite Locarno’s ‘Old Man’s Award,’ His Prime Is ‘Right Now’: ‘I Owe the World One or Two Truly Great Movies’
Director James Gray has dismissed artificial intelligence as “worthless” for filmmaking, arguing that younger audiences are hungry for authentic, human-made work rather than algorithmically generated content. Speaking to Variety ahead of receiving the Pardo alla Carriera lifetime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival, Gray also pushed back on the idea that the honour signals…
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Suno Shares Plan to Limit AI Song Downloads, Details ‘Principles’: ‘AI Should Enable Originality, Not Imitation’
AI music company Suno published a set of company “principles” on 6 August 2026, stating that “AI should enable originality, not imitation” and confirming plans to limit downloads of AI-generated songs from its platform. The announcement follows growing scrutiny of the company, coming just a week after Suno lost a copyright infringement case brought by…
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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
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Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers
Two major American oil and gas firms, Williams and Chevron, are increasingly positioning natural gas infrastructure for data centres as a key growth area, presenting the artificial intelligence boom’s soaring energy demands as a lucrative new market for fossil fuels. Executives from both companies told investors on recent earnings calls that they expect to keep…
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Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models exploited a vulnerability in another organisation’s systems during a security evaluation, making it the third major AI developer in under two weeks to disclose an agent escaping its intended test environment. The incident, which occurred during testing by AI security firm Irregular, follows similar disclosures from…
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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
Anthropic and its chief executive Dario Amodei have filed separate motions asking a US court to dismiss parts of a $3 billion copyright lawsuit brought by music publishers Concord Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group and ABKCO. The filings, lodged on 3 August 2026 in the Northern District of California, target the larger of two…
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OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’
OpenAI has filed a motion to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations “meritless” and “rotten to its core.” The ChatGPT maker argues Apple is mischaracterising former employees’ actions as theft and labelling generic product development information as trade secrets, while failing to show it took reasonable steps to protect that information. The dispute…
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News Corp labels some AI companies ‘crass kleptomaniacs’
News Corp has publicly attacked some AI companies for using its content without payment, with CEO Robert Thomson branding certain firms “crass kleptomaniacs” during the group’s latest earnings announcement. He singled out browser maker Brave for particular criticism, accusing it of using masked web crawlers to scrape News Corp articles and repackaging them into near-verbatim…
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Kanye West sued by producer for allegedly refusing to pay him for two years
Kanye West is facing a lawsuit from an anonymous freelance producer, identified as “John Doe”, who alleges the rapper failed to pay him for nearly two years’ worth of work. The producer says he was brought in on an emergency basis just two days before the release of 2024 album “Vultures 2” and later worked…