First discovered by 404 Media, as reported by Futurism,
Based on leaked documents, the TV and radio news giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its so-called “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence to “capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations” which advertisers “can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers.”
In the same slideshow, CMG counted Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients, though it didn’t specify whether they were involved in the “Active Listening” service. After 404 reached out to Google about its partnership, the tech giant removed the media group from the site for its “Partners Program.”
A Meta spokesperson also pushed back in a statement, saying that CMG was a general partner, not a partner in the program advertised in the deck.
“Meta does not use your phone’s microphone for ads and we’ve been public about this for years,” the statement read. “We are reaching out to CMG to get them to clarify that their program is not based on Meta data.”
And an Amazon spokesperson told 404 that its Ads arm “has never worked with CMG on this program and has no plans to do so.”
As reported by Publishers Weekly,
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed a March 2023 lower court decision finding the Internet Archive’s (IA) program to scan and lend print library books is copyright infringement. In an emphatic 64-page decision, released on September 4, the court rejected the Internet Archive’s fair use defense, as well as the novel protocol known as “controlled digital lending” on which the Archive’s scanning and lending is based.
“This appeal presents the following question: Is it ‘fair use’ for a nonprofit organization to scan copyright-protected print books in their entirety, and distribute those digital copies online, in full, for free, subject to a one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio between its print copies and the digital copies it makes available at any given time, all without authorization from the copyright-holding publishers or authors? Applying the relevant provisions of the Copyright Act as well as binding Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedent, we conclude the answer is no,” the decision states
The Second Circuit agreed, affirming that all four factors of the fair use test favored the publishers, including a straightforward rejection of the Internet Archive’s argument that its scanning and lending was “transformative” under the first factor.
“We conclude that IA’s use of the Works is not transformative,” the decision states. “Instead, IA’s digital books serve the same exact purpose as the originals: making authors’ works available to read. IA’s Free Digital Library is meant to―and does―substitute for the original Works,” the ruling continues, adding that “to construe IA’s use of the Works as transformative would significantly narrow―if not entirely eviscerate―copyright owners’ exclusive right to prepare (or not prepare) derivative works.”
Following section written by Dawson,
As Twitter user @bookybook5050 exclaims, if the Internet Archive was sued on the basis of scanning books to lend out digital copies, why aren’t AI companies like OpenAI being sued, because they are also scanning copyrighted works without permission.
As reported by TechCrunch,
Years ago, Twitter tried but eventually walked away from building TV apps after getting a lukewarm reception. Now, as it looks to revive its advertising business, its new incarnation X is hoping for a rerun. The company announced a new TV app available “on several app stores” as part of a wider effort to court more advertisers, creators and partners around a “video-first platform.”
That pivot into video will also include a new video tab on X itself, it added. The tab has yet to launch.
Users are noting that a beta of the TV app is already appearing on Amazon Fire TV and Google TV; we’ve been able to confirm we can see the Amazon Fire TV app ourselves. No sign of the app yet on Apple TV, Roku or other TV platforms.
As reported by Forbes,
Intel has announced its Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake mobile processors that are available to pre-order today in a range of thin and light notebooks from the likes of Asus, Dell, LG and MSI. The new CPUs boast 30% faster gaming performance compared to the previous generation, up to 20 hours of battery life as well being much faster than AMD and Qualcomm equivalent laptops across a range of tasks including games.
