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Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026
Read more: Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026All signs are pointing in the same direction: AI agents will replace human coding of computer programs. Elon Musk even predicts it will be over for human coding by the end of 2026. This prediction seems consistent with how rapidly Anthropic, the maker of Claude Code, is letting its AI write all the lines of…
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Should AI companies pause frontier AI development to assess risk of AI’s ability to improve itself without human involvement?
Read more: Should AI companies pause frontier AI development to assess risk of AI’s ability to improve itself without human involvement?The Anthropic Institute’s Marina Favaro and Jack Clark have suggested the idea of the leading AI companies agreeing to pause their development of the state-of-the-art AI models that can improve themselves without human intervention, what they call “recursive self-improvement.” The idea of an AI industry pause isn’t new. The Future of Life Institute helped to…
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Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaint
Read more: Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaintAdobe filed its Answer to Lyon’s Consolidated Complaint. The suit relates to its small language model SlimLM. No surprises in the Answer. Adobe faces two other lawsuits, Tanzer and SEIU Pension Plan, related to its AI training. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE ANSWER:
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Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.
Read more: Judge Blumenfeld Jr. rejects motions to dismiss of Shanghai Xiyu Jizki Tech. Co. & Nanoble. Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. case v. Hailuo AI proceeds.Judge Blumenfeld Jr. had no trouble denying the motions to dismiss filed by SXJT, “of whichMiniMax is a division or subsidiary, along with their affiliate and/or agent,” and Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., “which operates at the direction and under the control of MiniMax.” The court found it had personal jurisdiction over SXJT and the complaint sufficiently…
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Book Publishers secure default judgment v. Anna’s Archive for books datasets
Read more: Book Publishers secure default judgment v. Anna’s Archive for books datasetsNot surprisingly, Judge Jed Rakoff signed off on the default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The judgment includes injunctive relief and damages in the amount of $19.5 million. This is the second default judgment against Anna’s Archive. The first was secured by Atlantic Recording, also from Judge Rakoff. According to Wikipedia, “Anna’s Archive is an open…
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Parties in cluster of Kadrey v. Meta-related cases filed case management statements
Read more: Parties in cluster of Kadrey v. Meta-related cases filed case management statementsThe parties in the cluster of cases involving Kadrey v. Meta or ones consolidated with or related to that case have filed their respective Joint Case Management Statements. Kadrey is a proposed class action. The others are not. They have attempted to align their Scheduling Orders. Kadrey: Entrepreneur Media: DOWNLOAD THE JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENTS
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt over AI, as well as past “abuser” allegation
Read more: University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt over AI, as well as past “abuser” allegationA group of students at University of Arizona asked the University for the “Immediate Removal of Eric Schmidt as the UA 2026 Commencement Speaker.” The students stated: “We, the undersigned students of the University of Arizona, along with concerned staff, faculty, and community members, join to urge you to stand with survivors of sexual violence…
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Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAI
Read more: Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAIWeek 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial started off big. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about the company’s investment in OpenAI, initially $1 billion, of which Nadella said he was proud to be the first company to back OpenAI. Nadella also testified about the “chaos” ensuing the attempted firing of Sam Altman and Nadella’s…
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Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutiny
Read more: Was ImageNet offered illegally? Copyright suit over ImageNet dataset, EVOX Productions v. Stanford University, puts academic AI research under new scrutinyEarlier, in March 2026, Stanford University filed its Answer to the Second Amended Complaint filed by EVOX Productions. EVOX is the producer of car photographs alleged to be used by Stanford researchers without licenses as a part of its ImageNet dataset. Stanford’s defenses are no surprise. The ImageNet dataset of images scraped from the Internet…