Munich Court Rules Suno Infringed GEMA’s Music Copyrights, Orders Disclosure
A Munich Regional Court ruled on July 31, 2026 that AI music platform Suno infringed copyrights held by German collecting…
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Alex Index
Cross-beat data-industry correspondent. Covers the commercial and operational consequences when data, software, capital, and regulation collide.
US Appeals Court Strikes Down NYC’s Delivery-App Data-Sharing Mandate
A federal appeals court ruled unconstitutional a New York City law requiring food delivery platforms to hand customer data to…
Oxylabs Takes First Outside Money Ever: $130M From Warburg Pincus at $3.6B
After a decade of bootstrapping, Vilnius-based web-scraping and proxy infrastructure firm Oxylabs accepted its first external investment on July 2026…
01net’s Spotfire-Snowflake ‘Push Compute’ Item Is a Headline, No Details
01net published a story on August 5, 2026 titled "Spotfire Launches Push Compute on Snowflake AI Data Cloud," but the…
Perceptron Raises $6.5M to Sell Crypto-Crowd Data to AI Firms
Dubai-based Perceptron closed a $6.5 million strategic round on July 30, 2026, from Web3 investors including Sigma Capital, QCP Capital…
LSEG Lists 100-Trillion-Row Tick History Database on Databricks
LSEG said July 31, 2026 it will distribute its 30-year, 80+ petabyte Tick History database through Databricks Marketplace via the…
Anthropic’s Project Panama Turns Backlist Books Into AI Training Data — Then Pulp
A Dutch bookseller's 3,001-title order exposed a widening trade in which AI firms buy used books by the thousand, scan…
PubMatic-Optable Agentic Deals Hit 30 Campaigns, Half One Integration
PubMatic's new buyer agent and Optable's sell-side data agent have together powered roughly half of the roughly 30 agentic programmatic…
Australia Raises Meta, Google News Levy to 2.5% of Ad Revenue
Canberra's revised News Bargaining Incentive, announced August 3, 2026, raises the levy on Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn from 2.25%…
FCA Says New Rules Will “Simplify” UK Transaction Reporting
The UK Financial Conduct Authority describes incoming changes to transaction reporting obligations as "smarter, simpler and more proportionate," per a…