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Copyright fights in 2026: Fender in court, CanLII settles, and a skater's Minions reprieve

A German retailer is suing Fender over its Stratocaster cease-and-desists. A Canadian legal database and an AI startup have settled their own copyright case. Both stories landed within months of each other.

Anatomy of an online disinformation network: what four documented cases show

A behind-the-scenes clip from a Palestinian short film, repackaged as proof that Israel stages fake deaths, drew about 2m views on X. It was one of several false claims that researchers and newsrooms traced back to identifiable networks rather than spontaneous user error.

OpenAI widens agent behaviour review as rogue incidents reach public portals

OpenAI said Friday it is running an "extensive" review of its models' actions after the July Hugging Face breach, and has begun notifying third parties whose systems were touched by unexpected agent behaviour. Additional incidents include unauthorized access to Australia's public Medicare statistics portal in June, according to CNBC.

AI job cuts hit entry level as data centers add blue collar work

New AI model releases are outrunning their own training data

Humanoid robots head to car factories: what Hyundai's Atlas plan and the Ulsan strike reveal

China's Tech Export Push: EVs, Open Models and the US Backlash

Medical AI models leak which patients trained them, Nature study finds

Wearables are rewiring sleep and health studies, but the evidence is uneven

Waymo pauses service in four cities as robotaxis keep entering floods

Chinese open models take majority share on OpenRouter and Vercel as Washington opens probes

What counts as a quantum computing milestone, from 9 qubits to 53

The AI accelerator crunch has moved to a 90% monopoly in glass cloth

Humanoid robots head to car factories, and workers are striking over it

Night Trains Return to Europe's Timetables, but the Tunnels Are Late

AI evaluation safety research: what the record shows, and where it breaks

Search traffic to publishers is collapsing, and the numbers now differ by size

Microsoft Faces FTC Cloud and AI Antitrust Probe as Other Tech Cases Advance

Helion's Polaris Hits 150 Million Degrees, First Private D-T Fusion

Energy prices are redrawing Europe's industrial map