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

TechRadar

How AI converts handwriting into vector glyphs

Your handwritten notes could become a computer font thanks to Claude and some clever Python tools working quietly behind scenes

#AI #Handwriting

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student #AI #Academia #Research

Amazon Wins Legal Battle Against Perplexity's AI Shopping Tool

National Today

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 accessin...

#AI #Agents #Amazon #Perplexity

NanoClaw and Docker partner to make sandboxes the safest way for enterprises to deploy AI agents https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/nanoclaw-and-docker-partner-to-make-sandboxes-the-safest-way-for-enterprises #AI #Agents #Safety

Who owns the copyright in AI generated works?

Briffa Legal

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?

#AI #UK #Copyright

Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online

The Public Domain Review

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.

#PublicDomain

ChatGPT Edu feature reveals researchers’ project metadata across universities https://www.fastcompany.com/91507219/chatgpt-edu-researchers-project-metadata-universities-exclusive A configuration in Codex Cloud Environments lets thousands of colleagues see repository names and activity linked to ChatGPT accounts. #ChatGPT #Academia #Privacy

Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’

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.

#Copyright #MySpace #Music

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

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, ma...

#Meta #SmartGlasses #Privacy

Parliament adopts INI report on AI and copyright: No clear path forward

COMMUNIA Association

Parliament adopts INI report on AI and copyright: No clear path forward

The plenary vote to adopt the own-initiative report initiated by Axel Voss brings to a close a process that began in June 2025. While many aspects ...

"The report now recognises that the text and data mining (TDM) exceptions apply to AI training, thereby reducing legal uncertainty and aligning the text with the existing EU legal framework. This clarification is significant, given ongoing debates about the legality of using copyrighted works to train AI systems." #AI #EU #Copyright

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust

Business Insider

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust

It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

#Technology #Jobs #Economy

We’re Measuring Data Center Sustainability Wrong

IEEE Spectrum

Are We Ignoring 70% of IT Sector Emissions?

Are we missing the real carbon culprits in IT? Discover why end-user devices might be the bigger problem.

"Manufacturing a single smartphone generates approximately 50 kg CO2 equivalent (CO2e). For a laptop, it’s 200 kg CO2e. With 1 billion smartphones replaced annually, that’s 50 million tonnes of CO2e per year just from smartphone manufacturing, before anyone even turns them on." #Datacenters #Technology #Sustainability

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implemen...

#AI #Programming #OpenSource #Chardet

Professor Sues Colleague Over Copied Class Material

Plagiarism Today

Professor Sues Colleague Over Copied Class Material

At Victor Valley College, one professor filed a claim against a colleague alleging copyright infringement. Here’s how the Copyright Claims Board ...

#College #Copyright #Plagiarism

ChatGPT’s Translation Skills Parallel Those of Most Human Translators Experts with 10-plus years of experience outperformed the LLM

IEEE Spectrum

Machine Learning Models Rival Some Human Translators

AI translation models are now rivaling junior and medium-level human translators.

#AI #LLM #Translation

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

The Verge

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

"US District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled in 2023 that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.” That ruling was later upheld in 2025 by a federal appeals court in Washington, DC. As reported by Reuters, Thaler asked the Supreme Court to review the ruling in October 2025". #AI #AIArt #Copyright #Law

Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

Techmeme

A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic

By Ross Andersen / The Atlantic. View the full context on Techmeme.

The Atlantic

Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon

New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

#AI #Anthropic #USA #Politics

How Teens Use and View AI Just over half of U.S. teens say they have used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support. More teens think AI will be positive for them than negative

Pew Research Center

How Teens Use and View AI | Pew Research Center

Just over half of U.S. teens say they've used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they’ve gotten emotional support from these too...

#AI #LLM #Teens #Education #MentalHealth

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Nieman Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

#Journalism #InternetArchive #AI

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

#Spotify #AI #Programming