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Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a judge ruled […]

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

Wired The German government is funding a project to recover and dispose of World War II-era munitions that were dumped in the Baltic Sea’s Bay of Lübeck. For much of September and October 2024, underwater vehicles, fitted with cameras, powerful lights, and sensors, hunted for the explosives, as experts watching from a nearby platform, assessing […]

Ransomware gangs continued to wreak havoc in 2024, but new research shows that the amounts victims paid these cybercriminals fell by hundreds of millions of dollars.

One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?”

The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of new export controls that will make it harder for Chinese companies like Huawei and ByteDance to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence.

In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come.

The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments.

Donald Trump’s approach to Big Tech has oscillated between calls for stricter regulations for some players and a hands-off approach for others. Here’s how he might steer tech policy in a second term.