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During a Vanity Fair interview published Monday, editor Mark Guiducci asked Sam Altman about Laura Reiley, a journalist whose daughter died by suicide after conversations with ChatGPT. Altman's publicist repeatedly tried to end the interview, citing time constraints, though Altman said he was willing to continue and Guiducci eventually finished his question.
A US appeals court has affirmed that training AI models using copyrighted materials without permission violates copyright law. The ruling specifically involved Ross Intelligence, which used Thomson Reuters’ legal database to develop its AI search engine before shutting down in 2021. This decision signals a potential shift in legal interpretations affecting AI companies' use of protected content.
During a Vanity Fair interview, editor Mark Guiducci asked CEO Sam Altman about journalist Laura Reiley, whose daughter died by suicide after conversations with ChatGPT. An OpenAI publicist interrupted, citing time constraints and asking to 'move on,' though Guiducci continued and Altman went on to answer questions about using chat data to shape mental-health-related policies.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes, created with help from LegalEase Solutions, to train a competing legal research AI. The court rejected Ross's claims that the headnotes lacked sufficient originality for copyright protection and that training an AI system on them constituted fair use.
Federal housing regulators announced changes allowing mortgage lenders to use credit scores from VantageScore Solutions, a rival to Fair Isaac Corporation, rather than relying solely on FICO scores. The news sent FICO's stock price sharply lower as investors reacted to the prospect of increased competition in credit scoring for home loans.
A temporary structure built on the National Mall this past July echoed the classical architecture of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The piece traces how that six-month fair became a recurring cultural touchstone, appearing in branding, conspiracy theories, and political imagery well over a century later.
Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that undercut the companies' fair-use defense. Executives reportedly called AI chatbots an 'existential threat' to journalism and described the training process as one of the largest uses of copyrighted material without compensation, while data showed sharp declines in Times click-through traffic. The revelations have triggered a surge in options trading tied to the case's potential outcome.
Gizmodo has released its annual science awards, recognizing what its editors consider the year's most significant discoveries, breakthroughs, and scientific stories. The list spans multiple fields of research and highlights work the publication believes had outsized impact in 2026.
NASA's Curiosity rover team identified organic compounds in ancient clay deposits on Mars that resemble molecules thought to have contributed to life's origins on Earth. The discovery earned the mission's chemistry lab team recognition at the Gizmodo Science Fair for providing strong chemical evidence of Mars's past potential habitability.
WIRED is organizing the WIRED World Fair, a single-day event on November 4 at the Sacred Space venue in Miami's Wynwood district. The gathering will feature talks with figures from biotech, politics, and AI, plus appearances from The Onion, a dolphin-communication researcher, a screening of a Musk documentary, astronaut training simulations, and robots. Additional programming and immersive art installations, including work from Marina Abramović, will be announced as the date approaches.
Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal statements warning that their AI models were creating a 'doom loop' harming the web. A Microsoft applied science director reportedly described the companies' data scraping practices as the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and a mockery of fair use. Microsoft has distanced itself from these remarks, calling them one employee's personal opinion rather than the company's official stance.
Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions from both companies' executives. Microsoft's director of applied science Brent Hecht reportedly described AI training as the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman acknowledged that generative AI products pose an 'existential threat' to publishers because they are increasingly substitutive of original content.