The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI’s API. During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the company has talked with government officials about the probe. Some have criticized OpenAI for hypocrisy here.
Source: OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe | TechCrunch
While artists worldwide have been complaining about AI stealing their work, Story Protocol believes it has come up with a solution. The platform has introduced a system that lets AI agents trade intellectual property rights with each other, turning them into paying customers for tokenized IP rights on the blockchain. If you can’t beat them, join them, as they say.
Source: AI Agents Are Now Trading IP Rights With Each Other—And Earning Crypto for Their Owners – Decrypt
The DeepSeek R1 algorithm works. And it’s spreading. You can download the code, run it on your own server or PC, and see results that differ from those on Chinese-hosted versions. DeepSeek means that everyone, from researchers in São Paulo to start-ups in Stockholm and doctors in Nairobi, can access state-of-the-art AI at little to no cost. You just need a $2,000 machine with 512GB RAM to run DeepSeek R1 locally, generating 3.5–4 tokens per second.
Source: DeepSeek is a wake-up call for the music industry – and its data goldmine
Thirty-eight international organizations representing creative industries—including the Association of American Publishers, under the auspices of the International Publishers Association—have released a joint statement calling for oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence development, focusing on respect for copyright and related intellectual property.
Source: AAP, IPA Join Groups Calling for AI to Respect Copyright
The USCO launched a call for written submissions from the public about the PROs in response to a letter sent by members of the House Judiciary Committee to the Copyright Office last September. The letter expressed concerns about the number of PROs in the US and the difficulties many businesses face in licensing music, given the need to sign blanket licensing agreements with numerous collections organizations.
Source: US Copyright Office launches inquiry into performance rights organizations
The exception enacted in Arts. 3 and 4 of the CDSM Directive at a time when the Generative AI development could not have been fully anticipated, can be interpreted as covering some operations of training of a Generative AI model, but certainly not all aspects or stages of the life cycle of AI models and systems, from curating a dataset for training to the generation of an image, text or other media, by users.
Source: European Copyright Society Opinion on Copyright and Generative AI – Kluwer Copyright Blog
It’s been nearly two weeks since Chinese AI app DeepSeek rocked the artificial intelligence world, shaking up not just the public market but also the confidence of a lot of VCs who’ve built up massive AI portfolios. But despite the panic last week, it‘s now starting to seem like nothing materially changed in the industry as money continues to pour in for AI — with the promise of even more.
Source: Eye On AI: After DeepSeek Hysteria, The AI World Is The Same As It Ever Was
As Wall Street parses its earnings beat and stagnate streaming subscriber growth, the company revises its spending expectation from $24 billion to $23 billion for produced and licensed content, as well as sports rights. “In terms of cost cutting, as a company, we’re focused constantly on identifying opportunities where we’re spending money perhaps less efficiently and looking for opportunities to do it more efficiently,” CFO Hugh Johnston told analysts.
Source: Disney Lowers Content Spending Estimate by $1B for This Year
Google Photos is adding its digital SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using the Magic Editor’s generative AI feature. The new feature is rolling out “this week” according to Google, and is intended to make it easier for people to quickly identify images that have been manipulated using the “reimagine” tool in Magic Editor.
Source: Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor
The newspaper company said it spent $10.8 million on costs associated with generative artificial intelligence litigation in 2024, according to its quarterly earnings filing on Wednesday. The Times, buoyed by its 11 million-plus paid subscribers to its newspaper and suite of products, is one of the few journalistic entities that can afford to engage in yearslong litigation with Big Tech.
Source: The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M In Its Legal Battle With OpenAI So Far