Meta abandons commercial terms update
Meta will consult with publishers before implementing ads and business terms changes
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Tau Robotics humanoid robots launch apartment cleaning service in San Francisco
Tau's AI-guided robots collect cleaning data to train autonomous models while charging $30-$100 per session with remote human pilots.
Meta pauses AI training terms update after backlash
Meta has paused its commercial terms update that would have allowed scraping websites for generative AI training, keeping existing rules in effect while consulting stakeholders.
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Google Gemini trains on personal chat history
Gemini app activity trains generative AI models; users cannot opt out without disabling activity, losing chats after 72 hours.
Halley predictive control plane for optical AI networks
Halley boosts goodput in AI data center optical networks.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back shared AI scrape opt-out
Anthropic already honors the robots.txt token; Google and Microsoft plan support next year, and OpenAI says coming months.
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OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt AI training preference signal
Site operators can state one robots.txt preference for multiple providers; OpenAI says implementation is still months away.
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Meta may delay new business terms again past November 20
Existing terms stay in force while Meta consults publishers; the update was first set for October 30, then November 20.
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Meta business terms cover linked content; UK and EU users can object
After backlash, Meta moved the effective date from October 30 to November 20 and narrowed the listed uses.
Meta delays new business terms to November 20 after publisher backlash
Terms first set for October 30 drew claims they could let Meta scrape publisher sites for AI training despite a wording change.
Paper cuts random video decode cost for AI training without full transcoding
Authors report 1.45 times LeRobot v3 loading throughput and 58.7% less media payload on a robotics corpus.
Court orders Meta to name executives who approved AI training torrenting
The order also covers who approved downloading shadow libraries for Llama 1 and 2 and what happened to unused pirated works.
Meta commercial terms let it scrape business sites for AI training
The terms take effect October 30, 2026, and the News/Media Alliance says business accounts cannot opt out.
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta removed terms language that appeared to allow scraping business sites for AI training.
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta removed terms language critics said let it scrape news sites to train AI.
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Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta’s October 30 commercial terms would let it scrape linked business sites to train AI, with no opt-out.
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Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta’s October 30 business terms let it crawl linked publisher sites to train AI models.
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Texas HB 3834 Cybersecurity & AI Training Requirements
Texas HB 3834 and HB 3512 require annual cybersecurity and AI awareness training for covered public employees.
Lawmakers warn Google could expose Spirit Airlines data in $10 million AI training deal
Lawmakers urged Google and Spirit to halt a $10 million AI-training data deal over re-identification risks to employee records.
Humans are reviewing Copilot users’ bizarre and abusive image-editing requests
Contractors reviewing Microsoft Copilot image-editing requests see uncensored private photos, including sexual and abusive content, with no safety-flagging role.
Two years of OpenAI Academy
OpenAI Academy has reached 4 million people and is launching a Community Trainer Program to expand local AI skills training.
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Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab partner to train 30,000 Southeast Asian gig workers in practical AI skills over two years.
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI contractors were fired after using AI tools to review and train ChatGPT, violating Mercor’s ban on LLM-assisted work.
AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"
NYT and media plaintiffs cite internal OpenAI and Microsoft emails and sworn testimony to challenge fair use in a consolidated copyright suit seeking billions.
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