South Korean Regulators Threaten U.S.-Korea Trade Understanding with Anti-American Tech Crackdown

In the wake of Washington DC and Seoul signing a joint factsheet meant to reset trade tensions and stop discriminatory treatment of U.S. tech companies in South Korea, a pair of powerful Korean officials are already signaling they may torpedo the entire agreement — all to advance burdensome, one-sided tech regulations that overwhelmingly target American…

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Singer Blanco Brown Claims White AI-Generated Artist That Topped Country Sales Chart, Is Based on Him: ‘They Used the Blanco, Not the Brown’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust — a white, digitally generated avatar that didn’t exist two months ago. But the song’s vocal phrasing, melodic shape and stylistic DNA came from…

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