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Xavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.
Stakeholders in Elvis Presley's catalog filed a lawsuit on October 23 alleging Anthropic trained models on hundreds of Elvis songs without permission and seeking $41 million; the plaintiffs say the company removed DRM and copyright-management information from dozens of songs and will press a wide-ranging copyright claim, while Anthropic says it will defend itself and has previously invoked fair use.
EL ESPAÑOL presented the exhibition 'AutorIA.
An E&P Quick Read piece states that newsrooms have amassed decades of reporting and that artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities for publishers to unlock that archive, rediscover institutional knowledge and surface stories within past coverage.
J·Index, compiled by journalist Katya Gorchinskaya, documents more than 3,000 publicly reported uses of artificial intelligence in news organizations and finds that 60% of those implementations take place within newsrooms, while about one third correspond to small, local or hyperlocal media.
Matías Alvarado Leyton's 2026 article in Virtualis examines the epistemological limits of applying distant reading to digital oral-history testimony and proposes a hybrid or stratified reading that combines computational methods with historiographic interpretation.
AMD announced on 28 September it will acquire Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs in an all‑stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, expected to close by the end of 2026 and subject to regulatory approval.
Hyperballad, curated by Sara d’Alessandro Manozzo, opens at Villa della Regina from October 22 to November 8, 2026, featuring sound installations that use artificial intelligence, animal recordings, and field recordings collected also in Pakistan.
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