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Meta used names and images of celebrities like Taylor Swift for conversational AI without permission, sparking publicity rights and portrait rights violations.

Meta used names and images of celebrities like Taylor Swift for conversational AI without permission, sparking publicity rights and portrait rights violations.

Trump administration shortens student visas (F/J visas) to maximum 4 years and journalist visas (I visas) to within 240 days.

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Anthropic revised its consumer terms and privacy policy for Claude, including data retention for up to 5 years, raising AI data trade-off questions.

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