CC Backs Pay-to-Crawl; Zoom Hits Free AI [1, 2]
Summary
The rapid evolution of AI licensing and corporate access models directly impacts data rights, content monetization, and consumer security across the digital landscape.
- AI Licensing Shifts: Creative Commons tentatively supports ‘pay-to-crawl’ systems, impacting future AI training data monetization 2.
- Corporate AI Deals: Disney’s OpenAI licensing for Sora is exclusive for only one year before becoming open season 5.
- Open Source Expansion: Nvidia bolstered its open-source AI presence via the acquisition of SchedMD and new open AI models 4.
- Ethical Scams Exposed: Investigations revealed millions were fraudulently raised via scams targeting parents of sick children 10.
- Accessibility Gains: Zoom extended its AI Companion 3.0 assistant to all free web users, setting new access benchmarks 1.
- One Year - Duration of Disney’s exclusivity deal with OpenAI for Sora video generation 5.
- Two Years - Internal integration period Google used before publishing its AI sustainability playbook 9.
- February - The month Google discontinues its ‘dark web report’ feature for users 3.
- YC W23 - Current batch status for the company Rollstack, which is actively hiring engineers 7.
- Aramán du Lac - The fictional world where resurrection magic is deemed impossible in Critical Role Campaign 4 6.
Key Moments
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Zoom brings its AI assistant to the web with access to free users
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Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI ‘pay-to-crawl’ systems
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Google’s ‘dark web report’ feature will no longer be available starting in February
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Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models
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Disney’s OpenAI deal is exclusive for just one year — then it’s open season
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Critical Role Campaign 4 just made these essential D&D spells impossible to use
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Rollstack (YC W23) is hiring multiple software engineers (TypeScript) US/Canada
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The O'Saasy License Agreement grants the right to use the software freely
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We’re publishing an AI playbook to help others with sustainability reporting.
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Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
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