MPA and ByteDance strike AI copyright deal; Google buys Spirit Airlines data for $10M
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-08-18
- ByteDance and the MPA signed an MOU to strengthen IP protection around generative video/image models like Seedance and Seedream.
- Alibaba Cloud launched its third Korean data center with 6 AgenticAI services including AgentRun and STAROps; Qwen models have passed 2B global downloads with 300K+ derivatives.
- Google won a $10M bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' data (beating Mercor's $7.5M bid), gaining 100M+ emails, 500M Teams messages and 30M lines of code for AI training; PII will be scrubbed by a third party pending judge approval.
- Doubao launched a Windows virtual desktop: after authorization it can view the screen, move the mouse, click and type to complete complex tasks.
- Qwen team opened campus recruiting for 25 roles spanning pretraining, Infra, multimodal, Agent and AI safety.
- Kunlun released Mureka V9.5, its new AI music generation model, rolling out across platforms.
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