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AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission. News of the settlement emerged late last week in a filing [PDF] in the case filed by three authors – Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson – who …

The race for top AI talent has spilled into the courts, as one top researcher is being accused of stealing trade secrets on his way out the door to a competitor.  In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, xAI accused former employee Xuechen Li of taking confidential information and trade secrets before resigning from the company to join rival …

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no …

George and Nancy Jones in their Colmesneil, Texas, home in 1985. Kirk West didn’t look like a man trying to slip out of town unnoticed. Dressed in a $350 black-and-gold Versace-style shirt with a dragon perched on a champagne bottle on the back, the six-foot-six entrepreneur carried himself with the same air of confidence he’s projected for years. Yet, as …

K irk West didn’t look like a man trying to slip out of town unnoticed. Dressed in a $350 black-and-gold Versace-style shirt with a dragon perched on a champagne bottle on the back, the six-foot-six entrepreneur carried himself with the same air of confidence he’s projected for years. Yet, as the 58-year-old moved through Nashville International Airport on July 24, …

Crime Ring Stole 600 Times From Home Depots in California, Officials Say  The New York Times Massive Home Depot crime ring pulled off more than 600 SoCal thefts, D.A. says  Los Angeles Times 14 arrested in $10 million Southern California Home Depot theft ring  CBS News 14 arrested in elaborate $10 million Home Depot theft operation  NBC4 Los Angeles Alleged Southern California Home Depot …

Babe Ruth (Not That One) Stole Baseball Players’ Identities, U.S. Says  The New York Times Tennessean named Babe Ruth charged with fraud  ESPN Tennessee man with same name as Babe Ruth charged in fraud case  The Independent East TN man named George Herman Ruth accused of massive fraud scheme using dead baseball players’ names  WATE 6 On Your Side Tennessee Man Named George Herman …

Apple Claims Ex-Employee, China’s Oppo Stole Trade Secrets  Bloomberg.com Apple sues China’s Oppo, ex-engineer over alleged theft of Watch trade secrets  yahoo.com Apple drags ex-Apple Watch engineer to court over Oppo trade secret leak  9to5Mac Apple moves to block Oppo from using stolen Apple Watch designs  AppleInsider Apple Sues Ex-Employee for Allegedly Sharing Trade Secrets With Chinese Rival Oppo  MarketScreener Source link

A streamer has claimed that ads promoting Nexon game The First Descendant are using AI to make it look like he’s promoting them. Over the weekend a series of ads promoting the game appeared on TikTok via the official The First Descendant account. These ads all show a streamer talking about the game, but Reddit user iHardlyTriHard gathered some of the …

Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR technology giant said the hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information from the database, which Workday said was primarily used …