Suno trained v6 with the record labels, and the old-data question is still open
Suno released v6, its first model built with the record industry. The company says the training data was rebuilt from scratch, and it ships in three variants.
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Copyright
US government backs OpenAI in the NYT lawsuit
The Justice Department entered the New York Times copyright case with a 20-page filing arguing that training models on copyrighted text is fair use. Its oddest feature: it declares its own Copyright Office's opposing report unauthoritative.
Policy
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic, naming the founders personally
The complaint targets how the data was obtained, not just how it was used. The company already paid $1.5 billion over the same weak spot.
Policy
The platform artists fled to was scraped three times, and one scraper switched sides
Twelve million works copied for under $10. Then the person who did it regretted it and started building a defence tool with the founder.
Policy
An AirTag traced the shipment: rare books are being destroyed for AI training
A 404 Media investigation placed an AirTag inside a book shipment and tracked it, revealing that Amazon scans printed books it buys in bulk and destroys them in the process. The data trains its Nova models.
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The web's newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
ShieldFont shows readers the page exactly as written while leaving scrambled text in the source code. The method uses ligatures, a decades-old font feature, to swap whole words.
Safety
Suno Studio 2.0 arrives with MIDI, effects plugins and a chat that does it all
Suno is turning its AI music platform into a chat-driven studio. MIDI support, automation and effects bring it closer to a real production tool; the chat interface leaves the user with less to do.
Products
Apple is in talks to pay publishers to supply Siri with news
Apple is reportedly talking to publishers about paying for current news to feed Siri. According to the WSJ, the company has considered a nine-figure budget.
Policy
AI-Generated Books Erode Human Authors' Sales on Amazon
An analysis of 14,419 self-published Amazon books found that AI-generated titles are flooding the market with volume, driving down revenue for human authors.
Research