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Monday 2 November

Corporate America's AI bills are piling up. This startup raised $30 million to help.

AI-generated summary San Francisco-based startup Larridin has made available a measurement platform utilizing thirty million dollars in Series A funding to track enterprise artificial intelligence spending and employee productivity. The software integrates with internal corporate systems to analyze artificial intelligence interactions, protect employee privacy, generate high-level insights, and determine return on investment for businesses.

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Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition joins Cate Blanchett and CAA on AI licensing brief in New York Times’ case against OpenAI

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AI-generated summary Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition is available as part of a court filing in the copyright case involving OpenAI and Microsoft. The group asked the court for permission to submit a brief addressing whether rights to creative works can be licensed for AI use.

UMG, Sony, and DistroKid tell court they are ‘working on a resolution’ in dispute over AI music data for Suno case

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AI-generated summary Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and DistroKid have made available a court filing stating they are working on a resolution in their legal dispute. The parties have agreed to give DistroKid until November 6 to respond to the music labels' request for a court order concerning AI music data.

28 Zero-Day Findings in Less Than Two Days: What AI-Speed Discovery Means for Robotics

AI-generated summary VicOne released an initial set of 28 zero-day findings identified in less than two days using AI-assisted research across software supporting the Physical AI ecosystem. The discoveries span three stages of the robotics lifecycle and create demands for robotics teams to assess how each weakness affects robot safety and operations.

Hundreds of AI apps were part of a network hiding sexually abusive deepfake tools

Hundreds of AI apps hid abusive deepfake tools from reviewers

AI-generated summary Apple removed 19 apps that concealed sexually abusive artificial intelligence deepfake tools behind ordinary features after an investigation uncovered a network designed to evade App Store review. Spokesperson Adam Dema says the apps complied with App Store rules during initial reviews before developers subsequently changed the websites supplying their content.

Earlier: Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

AI-powered infostealer picks out the most profitable parts of your stolen data

AI-generated summary Cisco Talos has discovered a Windows infostealer named VOLTA-AUTODOXER that sends stolen user data to an artificial intelligence model to rank valuables by profitability. Ryan Fetterman of Cisco states that the malware utilizes OpenRouter to query models including Anthropic and Google to analyze the victim information.

Earlier: Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims