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News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them. The Internet Archive has preserved more than one trillion […]

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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexity on nearly identical grounds. Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against […]

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OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in […]

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Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract talks. For four years, Ben Affleck has been running a technology company that nobody in […]

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Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations between Anthropic and the US Department of War were framed, at least publicly, as a negotiation. […]

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