Hollywood studios escalate dispute over ByteDance’s ‘pervasive copyright infringement’ with its AI tools

On Friday, the Motion Picture Association sent its own cease and desist letter to ByteDance, the company behind the ...

Motion Picture Association Pushes ByteDance to Curb Seedance 2.0 AI Infringement

The Motion Picture Association sent a letter to ByteDance on Friday urging it to delete studio IP from the Seedance training ...
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Archival files, materiality and stories

As an Archives Assistant with the V&A Archive, I spend a lot of my time working with files. File cover, MA/1/S1577, V&A Archive. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...
National Geographic news

Watch Veronika the brown cow pick up a rake to scratch herself—a scientific first

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...