Music labels’ AI lawsuits create new copyright puzzle for US courts

Music labels’ and publishers’ cases pose novel questions, including whether the law should make exceptions for AI’s use of copyrighted material to create something new.

China’s anti-graft watchdog has launched a disciplinary investigation of Zuo Zuqing, the deputy director of state-run China National Nuclear Corp’s capital operational centre, it said on Saturday.

Meta is in discussions with actors such as Awkwafina and Judi Dench, as well as influencers, for the right to use their voices in its MetaAI digital assistant product, the New York Times said on Friday.

A group of 21 states and more than 50 U.S. lawmakers on Friday backed the Justice Department in its defense of a law that requires China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children’s privacy on the social media app as the Biden administration continues its crackdown on the social media site.

Intel shares sank 26% on Friday in their worst day since 1974 after the chip manufacturer suspended its dividend and slashed its workforce to fund a costly turnaround after losing its once-dominant global position.

Startup Character.AI said on Friday it has signed an agreement with Alphabet’s Google that grants the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the chatbot maker’s large language model technology.

Dun & Bradstreet , a U.S. data and analytics provider that has a market value of more than $9 billion including debt, is exploring options including a potential sale, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Citadel’s flagship hedge fund Wellington posted a gain of 0.74% in July, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a month some investors started to reduce their exposure to megacap technology stocks.

Utility firm Alliant Energy said on a post-earnings call on Friday that it has executed multiple power supply deals with data centers.

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