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Microsoft moved for summary judgment on September 4, 2026 in the consolidated copyright litigation brought by book authors and news publishers over the training of large language models, telling a federal court in Manhattan that an expert’s review of 8.2 million Copilot conversations found only 24 responses containing at least 30 words matching the authors’…

Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s newest frontier model, through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days and consumption-based pricing starting at $10 per million input tokens under Standard Global deployment, according to the Microsoft Azure Blog announcement.

The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026, filing a federal copyright and trademark complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that accuses the companies of using the newspapers’ published work to train and operate AI products without permission or payment. The Seattle…

Roland Corporation released Melody Flip on September 4, 2026, an AI-assisted melody-generation tool the company describes as a “music creation partner” for producers working in digital audio workstations. The software was created through a collaboration between Roland and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, the companies’ research partnership spanning music analysis technology.