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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
2026-08-14 Techcrunch
Over the past month, the view seems to have finally gained ground that, perhaps,the pace of development of artificial intelligence might be excessively rapid compared to the psychological growth of society. Since the rise of this technology, in fact, one of the main consequences of the current situation has been the pe...
Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
2026-08-13 404 Media
The influx of artificially generated content into the vast world of the internet was bound to reach music streaming platforms as well. Spotify, in fact, has begun to host countless tracks and sound samples that are, regrettably, artificially generated, without, however, labelling them as such. Users of the platform hav...
Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
2026-08-12 404 Media
The title of today’s article reveals nothing surprising. Ever since these facilities first came into being, their impact on the environment, on finances and on the entire technology sector has been identified as particularly worrying. The data centres so eagerly sought after by any tech company grappling with the dev...
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
2026-08-11 Techcrunch
Following the immense success of the renowned artificial intelligence Deepseek in January 2025, the world turned its gaze towards China with a certain subdued reverence, tinged with envy. Now, more than a year on from that event, China is back in the spotlight, once again throwing the entire technology sector into a st...
Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
2026-08-10 The Guardian
The notorious cyberattack carried out by an AI agent from OpenAI with almost complete autonomy, targeting Hugging Face, is said to have, in fact, more than one victim. According to a statement by one of the company’s developers, the tool in question is said to have identified and used login credentials to gain access...
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
2026-08-07 404 Media
We recently shared a series of articles whose main focus was precisely the amount of AI-generated content found on the most popular platforms today. One of the social networks most affected by the influx of AI content is, unfortunately, LinkedIn – a corner of the internet that, even today, users still try to use to f...
Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?
2026-08-06 AlJazeera
First of all, what is the “singularity”? The term has been used on several occasions within the science fiction film genre to define that precise moment in technological development – in the context of artificial intelligence – when the system in question surpasses human intelligence, becoming increasingly diff...
Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
2026-08-05 BBC
As mentioned last week in an article from our newsroom, OpenAI has recently become an unwitting participant in one of the most interesting – and worrisome – cyberattacks of recent years. Hugging Face, a sort of app store for various artificial intelligence tools, has been the victim of an unprecedented cyber breach...
Could AI be conscious?
2026-08-04 The Guardian
Since the emergence of this controversial technology, its development has been rapid and fraught with political, ethical and scientific nuances. What is now regarded as ‘artificial intelligence’does not necessarily reflect the idea people had at the start of its rise, as its growth has been so rapid that it has tak...
The AI Transparency Act and the labelling of synthetic content: what will change from 2 August 2026
2026-08-03 AIPIA
The European Union, following numerous requests and expressions of interest from its citizens, has turned its attention to the management and regulation of artificial intelligence within the continent’s online landscape. From 2 August 2026, the long-awaited Article 50 of EU Regulation 2024/1689, better known as the A...
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
2026-07-31 OpenAI
In the final days of July 2026, OpenAI, the technology giant specialising in artificial intelligence, was involved in a rather worrying incident. In the article we are sharing with you today, taken directly from the company’s statement, you can find a detailed explanation of the events.
According to reports from Hug...
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
2026-07-30 404Media
Recently, a finding has come to light regarding theamount of artificially generated content on the internet accessible to most people – that is, to users who access it every day. This discovery has therefore demonstrated how this technology is an integral part of the media content that is consumed, whether voluntaril...
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever
2026-07-29 404Media
Freya Holmér, a creator specialising in the gaming sector, as well as a game developer and Unity tool maker, recently came across yet another disheartening use of artificial intelligence. Her original idea was to create a new version of the famous game ‘Tetris’, in which, however, the entire board rotates along wi...
Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
2026-07-28 404Media
Patreon, the well-known US platform used by content creators to share their work in exchange for financial compensation – often through various subscription tiers for their fans – has recently taken a stance on the ongoing battle against artificial intelligence. The company’s CEO, Jack Conte, posted on Instagram,...
Cloned websites and exaggerated discounts: a guide to avoiding fake tickets for major events
2026-07-27 TODAY
According to a recent survey carried out by Surfshark, a Dutch company specialising in online privacy protection, almost one in three people regularly buy tickets for events of all kinds from unofficial sellers or resellers. Of these people, around 26 per cent have reportedly received, in the past, counterfeit and inva...
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
2026-07-24 The Guardian
According to a recent study conducted by the Oxford and Potsdam institutes, artificial intelligence appears to be altering and ‘reinterpreting’ the meaning of the messages or texts it is asked to summarise. Following the intensive push for this technology by the major players in the tech sector, several companies r...