Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced API access deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, ...
YouTube on MSN

Campanelle w/ mushroom cream sauce

Follow for more yummy goodness~ Quick and easy weeknight pasta packin' more shrooms than a Grateful Dead roadie. Background ...
Baltimore Fishbowl

Stronger tenant protections urged as rents rise

A coalition of housing advocates is calling on the Maryland General Assembly to pass laws that would allow Baltimore City and Maryland counties to prevent evictions without cause, and is also ...
PC Magazine

All Aboard for the Creative Works Entering the Public Domain in 2026

All Aboard for the Creative Works Entering the Public Domain in 2026 The list of 1930 classics that will no longer have copyright protections on Jan. 1 includes the first appearances of The Little ...
TechCrunch

Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI ‘pay-to-crawl’ systems

After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of ...
The Verge

The Creative Commons says pay-to-crawl shouldn’t be a website’s default setting.

In a blog post, the nonprofit says it has “significant reservations” about systems that require AI companies to pay to train on their content, stating that they “could become new concentrations of ...
Harvard Medical School

AI as commons

Vasilis Kostakis and Aristotle Tympas make a case for democratic AI. They outline four foundational principles to make this ideal a reality: open source, public funding, democratic control, and social ...
San Francisco Examiner

Inner Sunset art cafe gives residents space to 'unwind, unplug'

An Inner Sunset couple is giving neighborhood residents a space to connect with each other and unwind from life’s rigors through artistic endeavors and crafting projects. November marks the third ...
Psychology Today

The Myth of Creative Blocks: When Inspiration Disappears

We’ve all heard of “creative blocks.” Writers dread them, artists complain about them, and musicians describe them as inevitable parts of the process. The term is so familiar it feels like a law of ...
LAist

You don’t need to steal art from the Getty to have it at home. The museum is giving it away

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The Getty is one of Southern ...
LAist

Getty art downloads

L.A. County’s Getty Museum is a year into a program that allows the public to download 88,000 pieces of its renowned collection for free. How it works: You’re allowed to do whatever you want with the ...