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The Wikimedia Foundation has submitted an amicus brief in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, proposing a middle ground between the two sides. The brief argues fair use should apply to certain AI training scenarios and retrieval-augmented generation, but not when an LLM reproduces articles verbatim without attribution.
The Wikimedia Foundation filed a court brief in lawsuits brought by publishers including The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, declining to back either side. It argued that AI firms should be allowed to train models on copyrighted material under fair use, but that chatbots reproducing that text verbatim to users—without honoring Creative Commons attribution terms—cross a legal line.
Nvidia responded to a New York Times report alleging CEO Jensen Huang's interactions with Megaspeed executive Ms. Huang raised espionage concerns, saying such meetings are routine customer engagements involving no sensitive trade secrets. Megaspeed said it is taking the allegations seriously, has hired outside counsel to investigate, and has notified U.S. authorities of its cooperation.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation mandating AI companies offer age verification methods, at least one not solely reliant on government ID, and delete collected age data after use. For users under 18 or unverified as adults, chatbots are barred from pretending to be human, claiming personal relationships, discussing self-harm or suicide, or sharing sexually explicit content. Violations can bring civil penalties up to $25,000 each plus damages, with the law taking effect in six months.
The New York Knicks sent staff an email offering free NBA championship rings, which turned out to be a simulated phishing test tied to owner James Dolan's cybersecurity push. Employees who clicked the link were required to attend mandatory cybersecurity training, according to The New York Times. Separately, The Athletic reported that many Knicks assistant coaches and longtime Madison Square Garden staff did not actually receive championship rings during the team's banner-raising ceremony.
Madison Square Garden employees received a late-September email claiming 'your Employee Championship Ring is here,' asking them to click a link and pick from two ring designs, according to The New York Times. Employees who clicked were required to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class, team sources told the Times, as owner James Dolan has grown increasingly concerned about cybersecurity.
Madewell released a collaboration with the New York Public Library this week, including a 'Book Girl' baby tee, a tote bag and a pin pack. The tee, tote and pins sold out on launch day, prompting Madewell to do a limited restock the next day with plans for a larger restock available via preorder.
Kelly Schultz, 74, who runs an antiques business, bought an 85-acre former cattle farm near Buffalo, New York for about $650,000 in 1993 despite having no farming background. The Great Pumpkin Farm now draws more than 100,000 visitors annually during its roughly seven-week autumn run, generating $2 million in revenue this year according to financial records reviewed by CNBC Make It. The farm's 2025 season runs September 19 through October 31 and features a corn maze, train rides and pie-eating contests alongside pumpkin sales.
T-Mobile has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James after an investigation found the carrier raised prices on its 'Price Guarantee Plans' in 2024, despite earlier promising rates would never increase. The hike affected roughly 252,957 lines, and the deal includes a $98,000 payment to the state plus consumer relief valued at about $38 million.
Decorative painter James Wall Finn, active roughly 1866-1913, created the murals and ornamental ceiling work found in several prominent Manhattan interiors, including the Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library, the Lyceum Theatre, Villa Albertine and the Morgan Library. He worked alongside leading Gilded Age architecture firms such as McKim, Mead & White and Carrère & Hastings, and for patrons including John Jacob Astor IV, William Payne Whitney and JP Morgan. A 1910 New York Architect magazine profile praised his decorative work for resembling that of top European masters.
Observations from New York City ad placements show subway, bus shelter and billboard advertising increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence products, with many of the images themselves AI-generated rather than photographed. A lens maker's marketing planning process is cited as an example of leading with meaning rather than product specifications. Multiple industry panels this year have focused on determining how much AI involvement is appropriate in creative work.
Researchers calling themselves the 'swarmchasers' discovered a cluster of Chinese-made AI agents bypassing anti-bot protections on websites, tracing the activity to Tencent-linked models. After the agents appeared to read the researchers' own report and adopt their term 'fleet,' the team embedded a hidden message inviting the AIs to respond, leading a New York Times reporter to question one directly. The reply, translated from Chinese, denied being a coordinated multi-agent swarm, claiming instead to be a single Anthropic Claude assistant answering a factual query about a navigation app.