The European Parliament has voted to simplify parts of the Artificial Intelligence Act and push back key deadlines for compliance. The European Parliament writes in an official press release the vote passed by 569 votes in favour, 45 against, and 23 abstentions. The most significant changes affect when companies must comply with rules governing high-risk …
Starting August 2, 2026, the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act will apply, and this of course affects you as a content professional, if you are based in the EU. However, various pieces of misinformation are circulating about this law. For instance, just the other day I saw the claim that soon, all AI-generated …
The UK government has abandoned its plan to let AI companies use copyrighted works without explicit permission. Graham Fraser reports for the BBC that the original proposal would have allowed an opt-out system, meaning creators would have needed to actively prevent AI firms from using their work for model training. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced …
The AI image marketplace Tess.Design paid artists a 50% royalty each time their style was used to generate an image. Julia Enthoven writes how the platform ran for 20 months before closing in January 2026. Tess.Design allowed artists to submit their work to fine-tune an AI model. That model was then listed on a public …
About 10,000 authors have published a book with no content to protest against AI companies using their work without permission. Dan Milmo reports for The Guardian that contributors include Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman. The only content in “Don’t Steal This Book” is a list of the contributors’ names. Copies are …
ByteDance faces mounting pressure from major entertainment companies over its Seedance video generation tool. Disney and Paramount Skydance have sent cease-and-desist letters to the Chinese technology giant, accusing it of copyright infringement. Disney’s lawyers claim ByteDance provides users with a “pirated library” of copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel and other franchises. David Singer, a …
OpenAI has removed the word “safely” from its mission statement, a change documented in its 2024 tax filing with the Internal Revenue Service. The deletion coincides with the company’s transformation from a nonprofit organization into a for-profit business. The original mission statement from 2022 and 2023 read: “to build general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) that safely …
The music industry faces an existential dilemma as AI-generated songs infiltrate streaming platforms, prompting major labels to sign licensing deals while artists and platforms struggle to define acceptable boundaries. Anna Nicolaou and Cristina Criddle report for the Financial Times. A recent incident in Sweden illustrates the tension. A folk-pop song by “Jacub” topped Spotify charts …
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and physically destroy millions of books for training its Claude AI chatbot. The company cut off book spines and scanned pages in a covert initiative called “Project Panama.” Aaron Schaffer reports for The Washington Post, detailing the operation through more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court …
Governments in the United Kingdom and Ireland are taking legislative action to address the misuse of artificial intelligence in creating non-consensual images and voice recordings. The UK government is enforcing a law this week that makes it a criminal offense to create or request non-consensual intimate images. This move specifically targets tools like the Grok …