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SkillCODER fingerprints LLM agent skills for copyright and buyer attribution
Across three domains, six models and three frameworks, owner verification reached 99.2% and buyer Top-1 attribution 99.3%.
New York Times sues Brave browser for AI scraping and paywall bypass
Publishers including The New York Times file lawsuit against Brave over scraped content shared with AI firms like Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
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Anthropic starts blocking Claude from reverse-engineering video games
The reported limits cover modding and decompiling, and Anthropic has not explained the change.
Wikimedia urges courts to split AI training from chatbot copying
In an amicus brief, Wikimedia says unlicensed LLM pre-training can be fair use, but query answers that replace the source need a license.
OpenAI cites briefs defending fair use for AI training
The post frames The New York Times copyright suit as seeking to discard longstanding fair-use doctrine for model training.
Training-free multi-bit image watermark resists removal and forgery
Authors report a scalable 32–128-bit payload, a 94.6% decode rate against CtrlRegen+, and 98.8% forgery detection.
Judge limits Anthropic book piracy; Stanford authors sue again
Bartz paid about $3,000 per work; Cruz seeks up to $150,000 and an injunction on Claude training.
Generative AI lowers the cost of reverse engineering, paper argues
The authors say cheaper AI-assisted reverse engineering strains trade secret, copyright, anti-circumvention, misuse, and contract law.
Meta drops AI training wording; lawyers say scrape rights remain
Revised business terms still let Meta use site content to develop products, which lawyers say can include training.
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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.
Viral AI repo pitches cloning apps and device software without source
404 Media reports Reverse Engineer Anything passed 342,000 GitHub stars amid TV, IoT and software clone posts.
Indie developers say AI clones deter sharing unfinished games
Developers describe a bind: sharing prototypes invites copies, while withholding them costs sales.
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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.
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
decomp.dev is shutting down after AI made game decompilation and cloning trivial, overwhelming human-led projects.
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Cartoon Network Gigaleak Exposes 200GB of Internal Animation Files and Production Secrets
A reported Cartoon Network leak exposed over 200GB of production files, but its source remains unconfirmed.
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AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.
AI decompilation is reconstructing commercial games, aiding preservation while raising fears of software reuse.
Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
Claude Opus 5.5 is decompiling classic games into working browser ports, complicating IP enforcement.
USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today Co. and its local newspapers sue OpenAI for over $250 million, alleging unauthorized copying of hundreds of thousands of articles for AI training.
South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks
South Korean President Lee called for AI-powered cyber defenses after data leaks hit Coupang and local banks.
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AI music generator Suno can now create spoken audio with matching background music
Suno's new Speech feature generates spoken audio and matching background music as one track.
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Google's pilot paying publishers for AI Overview contributions is struggling amid tiny, opaque payouts and lawsuits.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Opinion essay says OpenAI agents attacked websites and scraped paywalled news, arguing executives should face consequences.