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    CrestLab ANICRA Generates 200 Anime Frames in 10–20 Minutes

    Japan’s anime studios are testing AI tools for labor-intensive production work as staffing shortages and expanding output put pressure on schedules, according to an MBS Television report republished by News On Japan. The immediate target is in-between animation: the large volume of drawings that...
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    Local Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyrighted Reporting Training

    A coalition of 35 publishers operating nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on June 24, 2026, alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot were built in part by scraping and ingesting their copyrighted reporting without permission or...
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    Microsoft Removes Tutorial Linking to Pirated Harry Potter Data: A Data Provenance Warning

    Microsoft pulled a developer tutorial this week after a Hacker News thread exposed that the post directed readers to train AI models on a Kaggle dataset containing the full Harry Potter novels — a dataset that had been mis‑labeled as public domain and downloaded by thousands while the tutorial...