Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance,…

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NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT targets Microsoft supercomputer In 2023, the NYT became the first major publisher to sue OpenAI. The prominent newspaper alleged that ChatGPT was illegally trained on its articles, infringed on its copyrights by outputting articles verbatim, and caused market harms by positioning ChatGPT as a substitute for a NYT subscription, as well as reputational harms…

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Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

The Motion Picture Association, which includes Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime Video, and Paramount, and the Streaming Innovation Alliance, which includes Netflix, Disney, Peacock, and Pluto TV, opposed the bill. The groups argued that “many” streaming services were already trying to manage the “loudness of advertisements that come from server-side ad insertion that may be inconsistent…

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Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

India’s digital payment share has increased over the years, with the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) growing to over 750 million daily transactions. With an aim to reach over a billion daily transactions, Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, which oversees UPI, thinks AI would be heavily involved in the…

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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version, Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans. Earlier the same week Sakana AI,…

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