Flagged as Abuse in 2018, Michael Smith’s AI-song Bots Kept Getting Paid for Six Years
Michael Smith collected $8,091,843.64 in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music for plays that no person…
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Microsoft’s Data Centres, Singtel and Santos Took Billions From Australia and Paid No Tax
Microsoft’s Australian data-centre business brought in $2.3 billion last financial year and paid no income tax. Optus owner Singtel took…
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DraftKings Gave a VIP $1,250 in Betting Credits After a Gambling Cool-Off
DraftKings invited ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson to try out for VIP status the day after he lost nearly $1,800 chasing…
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Akamai Plans $5.5bn Build-out for $11.6bn Anthropic Cloud Deal
Akamai is taking on the early financial risk of its expanded $11.6 billion cloud agreement with Anthropic. It plans to…
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DoorDash Counted the Delivery, Not All the Work. NYC Sent the Bill
DoorDash will pay more than $115 million to over 260,000 New York City delivery workers after the city found that…
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Texas Makes It Cheaper for Data Centers to Tie up the Grid
Texas has adopted softer terms for companies seeking data-center-scale grid connections: the state removed a proposed $50,000-per-megawatt nonrefundable fee, set…
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Your Search Click Is the Input AI Wants to Eliminate
Microsoft’s own internal material says its AI-answer strategy can create a “doom loop”: publisher work feeds the models, the models…
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Your Insurer May Be Buying Guesses About What You Fear
Acxiom has built consumer profiles containing more than 3,000 categories of predictions, and access files obtained by Consumer Reports name…
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China’s Professionals Are Moonlighting for Their Replacements
Chinese AI platforms are paying teachers, engineers, architects, writers and other professionals to turn their real work into model-training examples,…
