VidMage terms run to 6,107 words, the privacy policy adds another 3,584, and every one of those 9,691 words is in English. That would be unremarkable for an English-language product. VidMage is not one. Its face swap tools ship in twenty-five languages, and the sitemap proves the localisation was deliberate, funded and thorough. The VidMage […]
Nudification technology lost its most serious legal challenge to date on 4 September 2026, when a federal judge in Minneapolis refused to block Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation ban while the constitutional case against it continues. Elon Musk’s xAI had asked for a preliminary injunction. It did not get one. United States District Judge Donovan Frank issued a […]
The Seattle Times Company and Newsday LLC sued OpenAI, eight affiliated OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corporation on 4 September 2026 in the Southern District of New York, docketed as No. 1:26-cv-07644. The 38-page complaint pleads seven counts — direct and vicarious copyright infringement, two DMCA claims over stripped copyright management information, and federal, Washington and New York trademark dilution — and asks the court to destroy the training datasets and models built on the plaintiffs’ journalism. This is a working read of the filing: the datasets named, the 88-word Boeing 737 MAX passage a model returned verbatim, the 47% referral traffic collapse behind the harm claim, the $300 million licensing market the plaintiffs were left out of, and where the case sits against the consolidated New York Times litigation that reached summary judgment the same day.
Fair use is the two-word doctrine that decides whether the American AI industry ever has to pay for the books, articles and songs it learns from, and on Tuesday 1 September 2026 the United States government told a Manhattan federal court exactly which way it wants that question answered. In a 20-page statement of interest, […]
Situational Awareness was the best-performing large fund in the world in June 2026, up 439% net, and by the end of July it had been forced to sell its entire public equity book to Citadel in a single pre-market block. The Securities and Exchange Commission has now subpoenaed Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America for records of the fund’s trades, its borrowing and its conversations with lenders. This breakdown walks through what the regulator has asked for, how four times leverage turned a sector correction into a forced liquidation, what the fund actually owned, why Citadel bought the book at a reported ten per cent discount, why the headline figures in different outlets do not match, and what a business buying AI compute should take from the whole episode.
Eight days after Twitch switched on AI training by default, a Connecticut streamer filed a class action against Twitch and Amazon in the Northern District of California. The complaint accuses both companies of harvesting broadcasts, videos, clips and chat logs to train Amazon’s generative AI since as far back as 2024 — without consent and without payment. This article breaks the case down in plain language: the four legal claims and why copyright is deliberately missing, Mike Minton’s “nobody would opt in” admission, the same-day terms change, the market price of licensed training data, how the case compares with Bartz, Kadrey and NYT v. OpenAI, and the lessons for any business repurposing user content for AI.
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? Courts say it’s complicated. This guide walks through the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement and its 91% claim rate, the fair use four-factor test, the scoreboard of rulings from Bartz v. Anthropic to Kadrey v. Meta and Thomson Reuters v. Ross, why the UK’s March 2026 report kept the status quo after Getty’s hollow High Court win, what the US Copyright Office’s Part 3 report concluded before its author was fired and reinstated, and the practical questions every business using or building AI should be asking about indemnities, provenance and output ownership.
AI content label rules became legally binding across the European Union on 2 August 2026, and the first fortnight of enforcement has already surfaced an uncomfortable possibility. AI content labels may make deepfakes harder to spot rather than easier. That is not an argument against transparency, and it is certainly not an argument for doing […]
ChatGPT ad personalization is now written into OpenAI’s privacy policy, and that single sentence is the whole story. Advertising inside ChatGPT stopped being an experiment somebody at OpenAI was quietly testing and became a documented product behaviour with a legal basis, a data flow, a retention story and a settings screen. When a company writes […]
Does the EU Cyber Resilience Act apply to UK companies after Brexit? Yes — whenever software or hardware with digital elements is placed on the EU market, the duties follow the product regardless of where the manufacturer sits. This guide maps which UK businesses are caught and which escape, what placing on the market really means, the September 2026 reporting clocks and December 2027 full-application deadline, the manufacturer, importer and distributor duties, fines of up to 15 million euros or 2.5 percent of worldwide turnover, how the EU regime compares with the UK’s narrower PSTI rules and the services-focused Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, the unresolved Northern Ireland position under the Windsor Framework, and a four-step preparation plan for UK exporters.
