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German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense

A Munich court has ruled that AI music generator Suno violates copyrights by training on well-known musical works, following a lawsuit brought by German music rights organization GEMA. The court found ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: IBM finds 92% of companies hit by AI security breaches lacked basic access controls In nearly every AI security incident, the affected company lacked access controls for its ...
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OpenAI claims GPT-5.6 Sol beats Opus 5 on ARC-AGI-3 with its latest API and two additional settings

ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet responded to OpenAI's results by distinguishing between two kinds of test setups. Harnesses "custom-made to solve the benchmark or that contain knowledge about ...
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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. GPT Transcribe handles pre-recorded audio files, processing them about 34 times ...
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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AI and society

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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The Decoder

VulnCheck counted how often the security flaws that AI turns up are ever used in an attack. For the first half of 2026, Patrick Garrity counts 1,061 vulnerabilities traced to AI-assisted discovery.
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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

Update from July 24, 2026: The consortium published version 3.0 of its pretraining report and documented a contamination incident that the community discovered in the disclosed training data after the ...
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Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month, but the figure is mostly window dressing

Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models. But this headline number mostly reflects computing effort, not real usage or practical value, and it ...
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Claude Mythos is a wake-up call for Europe's AI safety apparatus

Anthropic is restricting access to Claude Mythos, an AI model it says can find security vulnerabilities better than most humans. European authorities have almost no visibility into the system, while ...