🐢 Sweden launches world's first AI music license + 9 more stories

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[6.2] Stim introduces world's first AI music license to protect Swedish songwriters — di.se (Swedish) (+2)

Swedish copyright organization Stim launched the world's first collective license for AI music training, ensuring songwriters are compensated when their work is used by AI companies.

The move aims to protect billions in potential lost revenue for creators as the AI music market expands. It provides a legal framework for AI firms to use music ethically amid copyright lawsuits.

Stockholm-based startup Songfox is the first to adopt the license. Stim believes legal compliance, in line with regulations like the EU's AI Act, will become a competitive advantage.

[5.8] US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China — apnews.com (+9)

An investigation found U.S. tech companies built China's surveillance state, enabling the mass detention and monitoring of hundreds of thousands, including Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.

For decades, companies including IBM and Cisco sold billions in technology, such as predictive policing systems, to Chinese authorities, despite warnings about human rights abuses against dissidents and minorities.

Though sanctions slowed sales, the American-built technological foundation remains. China has since expanded on these systems and now exports surveillance technology to other authoritarian nations.

Highly covered news with significance over 5.5

[6.4] New Hampshire man receives experimental pig kidney transplant as trials begin — abcnews.go.com (+21)

[6.3] Israeli military urges full evacuation of Gaza City ahead of expanded military operation — apnews.com (+257)

[6.2] Google plans to allow users to set AI mode as default — bleepingcomputer.com (+16)

[6.1] Ethiopia inaugurates Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, raising Nile water concerns for Egypt — bbc.com (+4)

[6.0] Microsoft-backed researchers develop hollow-core fiber with record-low signal loss — techradar.com (+2)

[5.5] European Union fines Google €2.95 billion for digital ad monopoly — rtl.nl (Dutch) (+12)

[5.5] Dutch babies receive new vaccine to prevent RSV hospitalizations — nos.nl (Dutch) (+3)

[5.5] Pope Leo XIV canonizes Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint — irishtimes.com (+43)

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