Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Mathematicians are threatening to boycott the field’s largest, most prestigious gathering this summer if it takes place in the U.S., as currently planned.

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#Math #Research #Politics

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

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#AI #Chatbots

GNU and the AI reimplementations

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#AI #Programming #OpenSource

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is […]

OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment

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#AI #Disney #Film #Cinema

A patent granted to Google on January 27, 2026 titled “AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user” describes a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated […]

From Prompt to Practice: A Framework for Transparent GenAI Use in Higher Education

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#AI #Education

The Slow Collapse of “Copyright Trolling” A series of court cases have showcased a weakness in the modern copyright trolling strategy. Namely, that the damages disappear when defendants fight back.

The Slow Collapse of “Copyright Trolling”

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#Copyright #Trolling #Photography

Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals

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#AI #Wikipedia

“The framework also encourages Congress to establish ways for rights holders to license their material to AI companies for training models and reproduction—though it states “Any such legislation, however, should not address when or whether such licensing is required,” because the administration […]

The Trump administration has announced its long-awaited national policy framework for artificial intelligence, guidelines for Congress on how to regulate the emerging technology. While it was released in a three-page document, it probably could have fit on a Post-It Note. The framework offers some broad-stroke guidelines for lawmakers, encouraging Congress to implement laws to accomplish goals like protecting minors and combatting censorship. Those recommendations are in line with the type of tech industry-friendly policies that are already being pursued, which makes sense given how much money the big players in the space have spent lobbying and sucking up to the administration. For instance, Trump called on Congress to introduce “age assurance requirements” for AI, similar to proposed laws like the Kids Online Safety Act, which would implement similar standards on social media platforms. The framework also encourages Congress to establish ways for rights holders to license their material to AI companies for training models and reproduction—though it states “Any such legislation, however, should not address when or whether such licensing is required,” because the administration “believes that training of AI models on copyrighted material does not violate copyright laws.” As expected, the administration called for its preferred laws to take precedence over states that have already passed more comprehensive laws governing AI. “Congress should preempt state AI laws that impose undue burdens to ensure a minimally burdensome national standard consistent with these recommendations, not fifty discordant ones,” the framework reads, arguing that “Preemption must ensure that State laws do not govern areas better suited to the Federal Government or act contrary to the United States’ national strategy to achieve global AI dominance.” Tucked in at the very end of the framework is a recommendation that reads like Section 230 for AI companies. “States should not be permitted to penalize AI developers for a third party’s unlawful conduct involving their models,” it states. The inclusion of this from Trump is interesting, given his past disdain for Section 230 of the Communications Act, which spares sites like Reddit and Facebook from legal liability for things posted on their platforms. The idea that AI companies aren’t responsible for the outputs of their models could potentially shield them from facing consequences for misinformation or outputs like non-consensual sexually explicit material, though the proposal from the Trump administration seems more focused on keeping states from carrying out enforcement actions than providing a blanket protection for the AI companies. Whether Trump’s policy framework actually goes anywhere or not, time will tell. He previously backed a 10-year moratorium that would have prevented states from establishing their own AI laws, and that got roundly shot down by everyone, including most Republicans. This framework is likely to have more support, but it’s far from a sure thing that it’ll get picked up by his party’s members of Congress, many of whom have their own policy proposals.

Trump Proposes a ‘Light Touch’ National Framework for AI Policy

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#AI #USA #Politics

Russia to give itself sweeping powers to ban or restrict foreign AI tools

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Ministry publishes proposed AI rules

Rules are move to extend Russian control over AI sector

Moscow wants […]

Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty

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The FSF urges "Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom."

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#AI #Copyright #OpenSource #Anthropic #FSF

Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

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#AI #Agents

"An estimated 85% of K-12 public school teachers recently reported that they used AI during the 2024-2025 school year – often for curriculum and content development."

"Similarly, 86% of K-12 students shared in 2025 that they have used AI in general. An estimated 50% of students reported that […]

Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers’ use of tokens, AI’s unit of measurement

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#AI #Work #Productivity #Tokens

Court temporarily allows Perplexity AI shopping 'agents' on Amazon

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#AI #Agents #Amazon #Perplexity

Now that's personal AI — Claude can now turn your handwriting into a personal font, giving you extra ways to express yourself Experiments with Claude show scanned handwriting can become a font file, though detection errors and messy writing still cause problems.

Claude can now scan a handwritten text and turn it into a working typeface

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#AI #Handwriting

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student

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#AI #Academia #Research

Amazon Wins Legal Battle Against Perplexity's AI Shopping Tool - San Francisco Today In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has granted Amazon's request to block Perplexity AI's shopping assistant tool, Comet, from accessing the retail giant's website. The decision marks a significant escalation in the ongoing tension between traditional online retailers and emerging AI-powered shopping technologies. The court found that while Perplexity's tool operates with permission from individual Amazon users, it lacks the necessary authorization from Amazon itself to access password-protected accounts, raising serious questions about data security protocols.

Amazon Wins Legal Battle Against Perplexity's AI Shopping Tool

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#AI #Agents #Amazon #Perplexity

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents

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#AI #Agents #Safety

Who owns the copyright in AI generated works? | Briffa Legal Under UK copyright law, authorship matters, and machines aren’t people. So who owns copyright in content created by artificial intelligence?

Who owns the copyright in AI generated works?

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#AI #UK #Copyright

Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online This guide is intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain.

Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online

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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.

The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years

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#Programming #OpenSource #Copyleft

ChatGPT Edu feature reveals researchers’ project metadata across universities

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A configuration in Codex Cloud Environments lets thousands of colleagues see repository names and activity linked […]

Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over 'Myspace Dragon Hoard' * TorrentFreak Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its MySpace Dragon Hoard collection.

Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’

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#Copyright #MySpace #Music

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

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#Meta #SmartGlasses #Privacy

German court says "It's AI" isn't enough to void copyright

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#AI #EU #Copyright #Law

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

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#AI #Programming #OpenSource #Chardet

Copyright, AI, and the Limits of Voluntary Licensing – Open Future The European Parliament flags unpaid AI training, but its voluntary licensing fix overlooks the real problem: a bargaining-power imbalance that prevents fair markets.

Copyright, AI, and the Limits of Voluntary Licensing

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#AI #EU #Copyright