New York Magazine

Why AI Companies Are Suddenly So Worried About Theft

Anthropic, which has positioned itself as the cautious, safety-focused lab, suggests that model scraping could be used to ...
FuturismOpinion

Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place

Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of "distilling" its AI model, an especially ironic ...
Newsweek

H-1B Visas To Be Permanently Scrapped Under New Plan

A Republican lawmaker has proposed a new bill in Congress that seeks to permanently end the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations. Supporters ...
The New York Times

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers

The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs. The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in ...
New York Post

8,000 flights scrapped, adding to travel nightmare as severe winter storm takes aim at 40 states

A “catastrophic” winter storm that is set to slam at least 40 states from Arizona to Maine was already causing a travel nightmare across the US. At least 1,111 flights on Friday were cancelled, ...
CNN

Here’s how AI data centers affect the electrical grid

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...
Ars Technica

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

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...
Bleeping Computer

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak

Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram accounts was scraped and leaked online. "We ...
Marketplace

Data scraped from the web for AI is out — specialized human-made data is in

Now that many AI algorithms have mastered simple tasks, companies are looking to train their models on data directly from engineers, lawyers, scientists, and more. Josh Dzieza is the investigations ...
Android Authority

The internet just made a 300TB copy of Spotify! (Updated: New Spotify statement)

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify. The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs. The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being ...
CNET

Spotify Says It's Shutting Down Access to Site That Scraped Its Music Library

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...