David 3 weeks ago

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates

Fortune

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates | Fortune

With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of work...

#GenZ #Education #Literacy

David 3 weeks ago

Lionsgate Declares AI Creators 'The Next Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola'

AI FILMS Studio

Lionsgate Declares AI Creators 'The Next Spike Jonze and ...

Lionsgate EVP Brad Haugen announces major studios are actively recruiting AI-native creators, calling them the next generation of auteur...

Major studio signals shift from observing to actively hiring AI filmmakers. #AI #Cinema #Film

David 3 weeks ago

South Korea launches landmark laws to regulate AI, startups warn of compliance burdens https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-launches-landmark-laws-regulate-ai-startups-warn-compliance-burdens-2026-01-22/ #AI #Law

David 0 months ago

Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel Among Artists Who ‘Co-Created’ Songs With AI Tech From ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs' Eleven Album Features AI Songs From Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel

ElevenLabs launched 'The Eleven Album,' a partnership with artists like Liza Minelli and Art Garfunkel to 'co-create' original ...

#AI #Music

David 0 months ago

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

404 Media

Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

#AIArt #Comics

David 0 months ago

Introducing OpenAI’s Education for Countries https://openai.com/index/edu-for-countries/ Estonia, Greece, Italy’s Conference of University Rectors (CRUI), Jordan, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates. #AI #OpenAI #Education

David 1 month ago

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

'NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books' * TorrentFreak

NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.

#AI #ShadowLibraries

David 1 month ago

Song with millions of streams banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

NME

Song with millions of streams banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

Song 'Jag vet, du är inte min' by the "artist" Jacub, with millions of streams, has been banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation.

"The folk-pop track is built around a finger-picked acoustic guitar melody and a soft vocal, and quickly became Sweden’s biggest song of the year so far." #AI #Music

David 1 month ago

"[Xania] Monet earned 125 million global on-demand audio streams last year. Breaking Rust brought in roughly 72.8 million streams followed by [Cain] Walker with 48.1 million, Enlly Blue with 34.8 and Juno Skye with 15.5 million."

AP News

Music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025. Christian, rock and Latin lead growth in the US

The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year...

#AI #Music

David 1 month ago

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.

#ShadowLibraries

David 1 month ago

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest

The Sun Star - UAF

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping artwork...

#AI #Art

David 1 month ago

"Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles."

The Verge

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

Another source of revenue for the Wikimedia Foundation.

#AI #Wikimedia #Wikipedia

David 1 month ago

Fifth Circuit Expands Copyright Termination Beyond U.S. Borders https://copyrightlately.com/vetter-resnik-fifth-circuit-ruling/ #Copyright #Law

David 1 month ago

Why did our friends stop posting on social media?

Why did our friends stop posting on social media?

BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and writer Kyle Chayka discuss the ways that social media is changing – and what that means for how we live o...

#SocialMedia #PostingZero

David 1 month ago

X Sues Music Publishers Over “Weaponized” DMCA Takedown Conspiracy

X Sues Music Publishers Over "Weaponized" DMCA Takedown Conspiracy * TorrentFreak

Elon Musk's X Corp filed a landmark antitrust complaint against the NMPA, Sony, Universal and other major music publishers.

#X #SocialMedia #Music #Copyright #DMCA

David 1 month ago

Morgan Stanley: Most Gen Zers and millennials in the US listen to about three hours of AI music a week

Sherwood News

Morgan Stanley: Most Gen Zers and millennials in the US listen to about three hours of AI music a week

That’s enough AI music to last the run time of “Avatar.”...

#AI #Music

David 1 month ago

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

#AI #LLM

David 1 month ago

AI-generated content can now be copyrighted...sometimes

Mashable

AI-generated content can now be copyrighted...sometimes

Welcome to AI Copyright Law 101.

#AI #Copyright

David 1 month ago

The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.

IEEE Spectrum

U.S. Data Centers Are Set to Dominate the Global Landscape

The U.S. is set to dominate the global data center landscape, but can the power grid handle the surge?

#Datacenters

David 1 month ago

Universal Partners With NVIDIA AI on Music Discovery, Fan Engagement & Creation Tools The collaboration will allow fans and artists to go in-depth on the music they love and create an artist incubator to explore AI in human creation.

Universal & NVIDIA Partner on AI Music Discovery, Fan & Creator Tools

The Universal Music Group has inked a new partnership with AI giant NVIDIA “to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagemen...

#AI #Music