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Interesting posts in July / August 2026

✨    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

    ✨   Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Why.

    Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Why.

    ✨   The New(s) Value Gap: Why Publishers Aren't Getting More Licenses From AI Companies

    (The New(s) Value Gap: Why Publishers Aren't Getting More Licenses From AI Companies | LinkedIn

    ✨   How Can We Save Journalism in the Age of AI?

    In this speech at the Media World Congress in Marseille on 1st June, A. G. Sulzberger, president of The New York Times, argues that if left unchecked, the rise of generative AI poses a major threat to journalism, the creative industries and, ultimately, democracy.

    Sulzberger does not oppose AI itself. In fact, he believes that AI could bring enormous benefits, and that news organisations should embrace it responsibly. However, he is concerned that leading AI companies have built their systems using vast amounts of copyrighted content, including journalism, without permission or fair compensation.

    New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger on why (and how) news publishers should fight AI platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

    Translation in French by "Le grand Continent"

    Comment sauver le journalisme au temps de l’IA ? | Le Grand Continent

    ✨   Google regulation crackdown in UK over AI use of publisher content

    In a world first, UK regulators today told Google to give publishers control over how their content is surfaced in AI answers.

    Google faces regulation crackdown in UK over AI use of content

    ✨   Out-of-Commerce works : the 20th century blackhole

    Out-of-commerce works: the 20th century black hole is not closing

    ✨   Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

    Google just announced SynthID Detector, a tool designed to identify AI-generated content through invisible watermarks embedded into media.

    Tools to understand how content was created and edited

    ✨   AI-generated papers flood submissions to scientific journals

    arXiv, the largest host of pre-peer-reviewed scientific papers, will now ban scientists for a year if their research contains hallucinated references or other obviously AI-generated content.

    AI-generated papers flood submissions to scientific journals

    ✨   The Digital Media Leadership Alliance

    The DMLA – The Digital Media Licensing Association who are now to be known as the Digital Media Leadership Alliance.

    DMLA change - now: Digital Media Leadership Alliance - Photoarchivenews

    ✨   Shutterstock to pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations

    Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations - 'Illegal subscription and cancellation practices' - Photoarchivenews

    ✨    Canon Introduces C2PA—Compliant Authenticity Imaging System for News Organizations

    New solution supports image provenance management at the point of capture, based on international C2PA standards

    Canon Introduces C2PA—Compliant Authenticity Imaging System for News Organizations | Canon Global

    ✨   South Korea Arrests Man for a Fake AI Wolf Photo That Raised Alarms

    South Korean police arrested a man Thursday for posting an AI-generated photo of an escaped wolf—an image convincing enough to fool city officials and trigger an emergency alert to thousands of residents. According to police, the stunt delayed the ca

    South Korea Arrests Man for a Fake AI Wolf Photo That Raised AlarmsSouth Korea Arrests Man for a Fake AI Wolf Photo That Raised Alarms

    ✨   Adobe Stock just launched AI Studio which combines the great content in Stock with Ai powered tools to perfect it.  Find something that's almost right? Use Ai Studio as a launchpad and make it exactly what you need.

    Change Mood — adjust lighting, tone, and atmosphere in one click

    Change Color — match brand palettes or hex codes across images and video

    Extend Image — add canvas space with AI

    Animate Image — turn stills into engaging b-roll

    Audio Match — pair video with the perfect AI-generated soundtrack

    Type to Edit — describe any edit in plain language and watch it happen

    Try it: stock.adobe.com/ai-studio

    ✨   AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history

    AP says it will offer buyouts, part of pivot from newspaper-focused history | AP News

    ✨   EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications

    It’s a stark contrast to the approach taken in Washington, where U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently used AI-generated content to get his point across.

    EU staff banned from using AI-generated content in official communications – POLITICO

    ✨   BRIA belongs to the most innovative companies in 2026

    The Most Innovative Companies in enterprise for 2026 - Fast Company

    ✨   Open AI is closing video app SORA

    Open AI is closing video app SORA as too expensive to run. Deal with Disney announced in December does not come to a close.

    OpenAI shutters video app Sora as company reels in costs

    ✨   He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library – He Lost

    "...when I found out that Adobe had fed our entire library into their AI training pipeline without asking, without a separate license, without any compensation — it was devastating,” Carter says. “They didn’t just use a few images. They ingested our content and used it to build products that now directly compete with us. Adobe’s AI can now generate the same kind of diverse imagery that we spent years and significant resources creating. They took our competitive advantage and turned it into their feature.

    ... The contract I signed gave Adobe a license to use my images for ‘developing new features and services [to promote my work],’ Carter says.

    But while he assumed that wording was there for Adobe to improve its platform, the company assumed otherwise.

    “Adobe’s argument? The word ‘new’ means they can do anything new. Anything. Including something that didn’t exist when I signed the contract. Including AI training. Including building a tool that directly competes with the very content I licensed to them,” Carter says."

    🔗 He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library - He Lost | PetaPixel

    ✨   Manipulated photos discovered in reports on Iran

    "Der SPIEGEL has removed several images from its coverage of Iran and from a number of other articles. This is due to doubts about their authenticity.The images reached numerous media outlets via the network of photo agencies. All the images in question come from the same agency. Images from this one source appear in publications across virtually all major media outlets: *Zeit*, *Süddeutsche Zeitung*, WDR, *Stern*, Deutschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle, *Welt*, *taz* and *B.Z.*.

    🔗 Medien: Manipulierte Fotos in Berichten zu Iran entdeckt - DER SPIEGEL

    ✨  "Flash response", an experiment between QWANT and French newspapers

    An agreement have been signed by Qwant with several newspapers, including Groupe EBRA titles such as L'Est Républicain, L'Equipe, Les Echos and Le Parisien, as well as Ouest-France, Le Figaro and television channels including BFMTV and France Médias Monde (France 24).

    The experiment involves a feature of the European search engine called 'Flash Response', which provides an AI-generated summary similar to Google AI Overviews (not available in France).

    The initiative aims to measure 'the value created by AI in search'. Advertising revenue generated by this format will be shared between Qwant and the participating media outlets. However, don't expect a windfall for the media outlets involved. After all, the search engine accounts for only 2% of queries in France.

    🔗 IA : le moteur de recherche Qwant s'associe à des médias français | Les Echos

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