A Tokyo court has ruled for the first time that a person’s voice can be protected by publicity rights, in voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda’s case against TikTok over AI-narrated videos. We read the nine-page judgment: the test it borrowed from the Pink Lady case, why Tsuda still lost, the questions it leaves open, how other countries compare, and what brands and platforms should do.
Japanese anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda, known for Jujutsu Kaisen and Yu-Gi-Oh!, has taken TikTok to court over videos he says used AI voice cloning to copy his voice, with the Tokyo District Court due to rule on 30 September 2026. This article sets out the timeline, the account’s reported earnings, TikTok’s “generic male voice” defence, Japan’s publicity-rights and unfair competition tests, the justice ministry’s August guideline, the likely outcomes and how other countries treat cloned voices.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on 16 September 2026 at SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles headquarters, making California the second state to require a disclosure when an advertisement prominently features an AI-generated performer. We work through the statutory text of new Business and Professions Code section 17610, the three-pronged prominence test, the prescribed disclosure wording, the five construction carve-outs, the court-ordered takedown duty it places on broadcasters and platforms, and the eight ways it diverges from New York’s law.
The New Mexico Supreme Court held Santa Fe defence lawyer Stephen Aarons in contempt, fined him $5,000 and removed him from a life-sentence murder appeal after his ChatGPT-assisted brief quoted four witnesses who do not exist and three who never said what it claimed. We read the 9 September order as quoted by the outlets that saw it, the 21 August hearing coverage, the trial record behind the appeal, and the 2,039-case AI hallucination database, and counted where this case departs from the fake-citation cases that came before it.
Suno v6 licensed music was the story every headline told on 9 September 2026. Engadget: “Suno trained its v6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG.” TechCrunch: “Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up.” Reuters, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran […]
Augmentation without abdication is the phrase two American researchers have proposed as the governing norm for artificial intelligence in science, and it arrived on 8 September 2026 with something most position pieces never bother to supply: a list. Charles C Branas of Columbia University and Bruce L Levine of the University of Pennsylvania did not […]
Generative Media Tool is the name Adobe gave, on 8 September 2026, to the thing every editor has been doing badly for two years: leaving the timeline to go and make something, then coming back with a file that does not match the cut. Draw a range on any track, describe what is missing, pick […]
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.
AI-generated menu boards started appearing in delis, cafés and night markets this summer, and the internet reacted with something close to nausea. TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling published the sharpest explanation of why on 3 September 2026, and her answer was not “the models are bad at food.” It was stranger and more useful than that: the […]
New York City has announced the nation’s broadest school generative AI moratorium: starting 10 September 2026, students in 2-K through 8th grade — nearly 600,000 children — will be barred from student-facing AI tools, companion chatbots are banned at every grade, and daily screen time on individual devices is capped. High schoolers get mandatory AI literacy modules and tightly capped pilots instead. This article unpacks what the NYC AI ban covers, why Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels imposed it, and what it means for schools everywhere.
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