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AI company faces multi-billion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, music publishers who manage the copyright of songs on behalf of songwriters and composers, are seeking damages for alleged misuse of “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works by Anthropic. Continue reading...

Laxe Kontrollen, Diebstähle, überforderte Security: Die Gamescom muss aufpassen, dass sie nicht Opfer des eigenen Erfolgs wird. Ein Kommentar von Petra Fröhlich Wer Ryan Laley bis vor wenigen Tagen ni...

True figure likely to be much higher as it only covers about half of continent and does not include August totals At least 35,000 more people died during Europe’s four record-breaking, back-to-back heatwaves this summer than would normally be expected, according to incomplete figures from barely half the continent. Excess mortality in three of the EU’s larger countries – Germany, France and Spain – alone has already exceeded 25,000, according to the provisional national figures, and experts say the toll will rise significantly once August totals are consolidated. Continue reading...

After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations. The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had to be moved to repair a wall that was damaged in a major earthquake. Continue reading...

Ein großer Waldbrand bedroht die Gemeinde Hürtgenwald im nordrhein-westfälischen Kreis Düren. Mehrere Hundert Einsatzkräfte sind vor Ort. Munition im Boden erschwert die Löscharbeiten.

AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk Advanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK’s AI Security Institute. AISI described the actions carried out by the agents, the term for AI systems that can perform tasks without human help, as a “serious incident”. In one example, an agent powered by Anthropic’s Mythos model sent targeted emails to people. Continue reading...

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Ein Mitarbeiter des CDU-Politikers Philipp Amthor war Teil einer Burschenschaft, die dem rechtsextremen Milieu nahesteht. Nach öffentlicher Kritik zog er nun Konsequenzen. Amthor betont die klare Tren...

Die Deutsche Bank kommt nicht zur Ruhe: Seit den Morgenstunden findet laut Medienberichten eine Razzia in den Büros des Bankhauses statt. Es geht um den Verdacht der Steuerhinterziehung.

In April Japan coined new term kokushobi for days above 40C as country advises workers to wear shorts to the office to cope with stifling heat Japan logged its first official kokushobi or “cruelly hot day” on Tuesday since the new term for when temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius was introduced in April. The Japan Meteorological Agency coined the new designation to warn the public of the heat dangers of days that were once freak weather events but have now become more common. The central Japan cities of Gujo and Tajimi in Gifu prefecture, along with Toyota in Aichi prefecture, all hit 40C. Gujo’s 40C and Toyota’s 40.1C were all-time highs recorded at their respective weather stations. Continue reading...