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What’s going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were initially filed back in 2023, with decisions just now starting to trickle out. Whether it’s Midjourney generating videos of Disney characters, like Wall-E brandishing a gun, or an exit interview with a top AI lawyer as he left Meta, WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs has been following this fight for years—and she’s ready to answer your questions.Bring all your burning questions about the AI copyright battles to WIRED’s next, subscriber-only livestream scheduled for July 16 at 1 pm ET /…

A former sanitation worker, who claimed to have buried dozens of unidentified bodies in cases of suspicious deaths in Dharmasthala under the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka between 1995 and 2014, appeared before a magistrate’s court in Belthangady on Friday to provide a statement. Based on the former sanitation worker’s allegations of being involved in the disposal of bodies in suspicious deaths in Dharmasthala, the police filed a First Information Report (FIR) on July 4 but sought an official statement in court from the unidentified worker under the Criminal Procedure Code to substantiate the allegations and find a direction for…

Bengaluru: The recent toll fee revision by NICE has come under govt scanner: The public works department issued a notice to the managing director of Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Ltd for revising the toll without its consent.PWD issued the notice on July 8, saying toll revision was done in violation of the framework agreement and cannot be accepted.With effect from July 1, NICE hiked toll for all categories of vehicles. The fee for a single journey for cars was increased from Rs 285 to Rs 306, which amounts to Rs 7 per km. With the revision, the 45km stretch, linking Hosur…

Bengaluru: The decomposed body of an unidentified male person, aged between 35-40 years, was found in Vrishabhavathi rajakaluve (stormwater drain) near RV College on Mysuru Road. Lokesh, 34, security supervisor of the college, told police the leg was found in the drain at 12.10pm behind the institution. Police later found the body, which had a tattoo called S Jaya. The body bore no injuries but was highly decomposed.

Bengaluru: The energy department has decided to quietly shelve one of chief minister Siddaramaiah’s flagship budget proposals — the ambitious ‘microgrid’ solar scheme — due to high costs and technical roadblocks.In a move that has raised eyebrows in govt circles, the scheme, which was aimed at making remote villages self-sufficient in power through solar and battery storage, has been scrapped barely 15 months after it was announced.Originally conceived as a pilot project across five villages — one each in Chikkamagaluru, Tumakuru, Kodagu, Uttara Kannada, and Kalaburagi — the plan was to install 500Mw solar units with battery storage in each…

Bengaluru: Brushing aside fresh speculation of a change at the helm, both chief minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar reiterated Friday that there has been no discussion by the Congress high command on the issue.”An answer has already been given [by Siddaramaiah and party national general secretary in charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala],” Shivakumar said on his return from Delhi. “When an answer has been provided, it’s not good to speak on the same thing again. Asking the same thing again is also not right. We don’t want to make any comment now. It’s unnecessary.”On some MLAs reportedly…

The Karnataka High Court Friday granted a stay order to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in a defamation case filed by the BJP concerning posters put up in the run-up to the 2023 Assembly elections. Last week, the high court bench comprising Justice S R Krishna Kumar had also granted a similar interim stay order in favour of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar in the case. Earlier this year, in January, a bench consisting of Justice M Nagaprasanna had granted a stay to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is also a co-accused in the defamation case. Story continues below this…

Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Studios If you aren’t already familiar with “Superman” star David Corenswet, get ready to start seeing more of him. The early reactions to “Superman” are all saying the same thing, and fans can probably expect Corenswet to wear the iconic red-and-blue suit for a long time. In 2019 the actor even told Entertainment Weekly, “My pie-in-the-sky ambition is definitely to play Superman.” When Corenswet talked about that lofty dream, he’d already been acting for years. He started out in television in the 2010s, and his first recurring…

RECENT decisions by the AICC in Karnataka, like the appointment of Siddaramaiah to a national panel of OBC leaders and individual meetings held by Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala with party leaders in the state, indicate that the chapter on chief ministership in Karnataka may not be over yet.CM Siddaramaiah and his Deputy D K Shivakumar returned from a two-day visit to Delhi on Friday. They did not get to meet AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi, though Siddaramaiah had sought an appointment. Gandhi incidentally met Congress leaders from Gujarat on Thursday, but did not give an audience to the Karnataka…

Sukhwinder Singh Gill, a 40-year-old farmer union leader and president of the Bharti Kisan Union (Totewal), found himself in the spotlight on Wednesday when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided his residence and 10 other locations in Punjab and Haryana. The searches were carried out in connection with Gill’s alleged role in the ‘dunki route’ racket, a term used for illegal immigration networks that send people abroad through unsafe means.At the time of the raid, Gill, a resident of the Tota Singh Wala village in Punjab’s Moga district, was not at home but at the protest site of the ‘Qaumi Insaaf…