North Carolina man Michael Smith received 18 months for using 10,000 bots and AI songs to steal $8M in streaming royalties.
Trump announced $2.9B in Navy funding for Anduril’s submarine facility amid scrutiny of Trump-family-linked contracts.
McDonald’s faces a lawsuit over an AI pricing tool used to recommend prices to US franchisees.
Meta and Microsoft reportedly are reducing reliance on Anthropic as their internal AI tools become central.
Thread flags Darren Aronofsky’s newly announced AI film studio and allegations it relies on other artists’ work.
Users report ChatGPT generates fake New Yorker cartoons while attributing them to real cartoonists.

A user documents someone claiming credit for a Minecraft mod allegedly made with Claude that was made by another developer.

An artist documents an iPad painting’s progress after moderators removed it following false AI-generation accusations.

Olivia Rodrigo says she draws a hard line against AI in her music, after finding ChatGPT title suggestions unusable.

A discussion on AI’s labor impact asks why automation has not first displaced undesirable jobs.