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Interesting posts in September 2026

✨   AI-Generated Images Can Perform as Well as Stock Photography

AI-Generated Images Can Perform as Well as Stock Photography - NN/G

✨   Fotoware launches end-to-end C2PA support in its DAM platform

Fotoware has launched Content Authenticity, a capability that offers glass-to-glass support for the C2PA standard within the Digital Asset Management platform.

InPublishing: Fotoware launches end-to-end C2PA support in its DAM platform

✨   Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max - Apple

✨   Getty Images at the brink of bankrupcy ?

Getty Images Au bord de la faillite ? - L'oeil de l'info

✨   Google says AI training is fair use and copyright should be policed on outputs, not inputs

Google says AI training is fair use and copyright should be policed on outputs, not inputs - Music Business Worldwide

✨    Why Google Killed Its Best Argument for AI

Why Google Killed Its Best Argument for AI

✨    The AI Dilemma: Can C2PA Keep a Video’s Provenance Intact?

Can C2PA keep a video's provenance intact through a real pipeline. Sony, SMPTE, and CBC/Radio-Canada answered honestly: not yet. Transcoding, compression, screen recording all strip the metadata. One incompatible system, and the chain of custody is gone

The AI Dilemma: Can C2PA Keep a Video’s Provenance Intact? | TV Tech

✨    USA : A New Bill Targets ‘Bad Bots’ That Scrape Websites Without Permission

These so-called “bad bots” are “creating a reseller market,” Coffey said, by crawling and scraping publisher sites and then serving or selling the content elsewhere without permission.

A New Bill Targets ‘Bad Bots’ That Scrape Websites Without Permission | AdExchanger

✨    Certain Key Differences between U.S. State AI Laws and the EU AI Act

U.S. State AI laws v. EU AI Act: key differences and implications for AI agreements

✨    How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in, powered by Nano Banana 2. It went live today, worldwide, for everyone, with no waitlist and no application.

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

✨    landmark ruling: GEMA vs. Suno

GEMA achieved a sensational victory today in the Munich Regional Court. Suno, the AI-powered music generation service valued at $5.4 billion that allows users to create music at the push of a button, bears full copyright liability for training the system with protected musical works, storing them in its systems, and reproducing them.

(1) landmark ruling: GEMA vs. Suno | LinkedIn

✨    Kimi K3 Chinese LML open source

In July 2026, the Beijing-based company Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, one of the largest and most capable open-weight language models announced to date. With its approximately 2.8 trillion parameters, advanced reasoning capabilities and exceptionally large context window, Kimi K3 has attracted the attention of researchers, developers, businesses and policymakers worldwide.

The Global AI Race Enters a New Phase: Why China's Kimi K3 Has the World Paying Attention | LinkedIn

✨    Why Shutterstock (SSTK) Shares Are Plunging Today

Why Shutterstock (SSTK) Shares Are Plunging Today

✨    Two Sports Photographers Reveal What It’s Like to Shoot the World Cup

Two Sports Photographers Reveal What It's Like to Shoot the World Cup | PetaPixel

✨    AI in Australia's interests

In a speech at the Sydney University, Anthony Albanese, MP of Australia after acknowledging that Australia had bee a pioneer in introducing a social media ban for under-16s, announces the following legislative roadmap.

  • Australian Standards for AI to establish a national framework governing AI development.
  • A new Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to coordinate AI policy across government.
  • National rules for large AI data centres covering location, energy use, water use, infrastructure investment, and community engagement.
  • Stronger copyright protections so AI companies cannot use Australian artists', musicians', writers', or journalists' work for AI training without permission and compensation.
  • AI in Australia's interests | Prime Minister of Australia

    ✨    OpenAI says its AI model went rogue and hacked startup

    OpenAI called it an "unprecedented cyber incident" and pledged to support a joint investigation, with renewed attention to the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

    OpenAI says its AI model went rogue and hacked startup

    ✨    Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds

    Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds | Reuters

    ✨   Shutterstock CFO Rik Powell steps up for interim CEO role as Hennessy steps down – ‘effective immediately’

    Just two weeks on from the news that the Shutterstock merger with Getty Images was abandoned the Shutterstock Chief Executive Officer Paul Hennessy has stepped down from his role and from the company board of directors – ‘effective immediately’ – in

    Shutterstock CFO Rik Powell steps up for interim CEO role as Hennessy steps down - 'effective immediately' - Photoarchivenews

    ✨   AI is watching you

    Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram.

    Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

    ✨   Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

    Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

    ✨   Meta introduces an AI detection tool for images and videos created with Muse Image

    The web-based feature, Muse Images, can detect invisible digital watermarks embedded in AI-generated content, allowing users to determine whether an image was produced with Meta AI. However, Muse Images can only read Meta's proprietary identifier Content Seal, It cannot read Google's Synth ID or C2PA credentials.

    Meta introduces an AI detection tool for images and videos created with Muse Image - Tech Edition

    ✨   Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

    The gradual erosion of search traffic in recent years has, paradoxically, given publishers more agency to consider walking away from the platform.

    Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

    ✨   New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

    Both The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has lied about its ability to search customer chat logs and training datasets for copyrighted works belonging to the two newspapers. This is the latest development in the two-year legal battle between the AI firm and The Times, which alleges that OpenAI violated copyright law by using its content to train generative AI models and reproduce that journalism in user outputs.

    New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial | TechCrunch

    ✨   Dutch Publishers Introduce New AI Licensing Platform

    A coalition of book publishers in the Netherlands has launched Bookpact.ai, a new platform allowing publishers, with authors' consent, to structure, control, and be fairly compensated for the use of books by AI companies.

    Dutch Publishers Introduce New AI Licensing Platform – International Publishers Association

    ✨   European LLM respecting copyright : GPT-NL and Apertus

    GPT-NL respects copyright - cui bono? - Part 1 | Kluwer Copyright Blog

    ✨   Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

    German court rules that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.

    Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

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