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If you’re feeling nostalgic, Future Party, we’ve come across a new tool to feed that emotion. Tony Crouch, the founder of VHSisLife.com, has created a 3D-printed VHS cleaner that sucks out all the mold that collects on the magnetic tape in the cartridges. That means if your parents were storing all your favorite childhood memories in your damp garage, you can now clean those tapes up and relive them. Having a good cry is optional.

A federal judge ruled that an AI firm that created a legal platform by scraping content created by info-tech company Thomson Reuters — which has a paywalled platform for users to access info regarding things like case law, law journals, and regulations — is in breach of copyright infringement.

The Big Picture: While a copyright-infringement case concerning a conglomerate mostly focused on legal, tax, and accounting advice may not seem very splashy, it’s the first major ruling on AI training… and one that strikes at the heart of Silicon Valley’s business plans. Expect this esoteric case to become the foundation for lawsuits from the entertainment, media, and art industries.

Behind the Ruling: US District Judge Stephanos Bibas dropped a hammer on the AI industry.

The Future: The commercial-use aspect is critical to Bibas’ ruling. He said that Ross’ desire to profit off of the copyrighted content actually “disfavors fair use” — a precedent set forth by the ruling in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, which said fair-use needed to be weighed against the “commercial nature of the use.” The more money to be made from the “transformed” work, the higher the threshold for the fair-use doctrine.

The Thomson Reuters ruling is already having an effect — Concord Music Group, which is suing Anthropic for using copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude chatbot, requested that the federal judge assigned to the case take note of the decision.

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Apple is launching a new, wide-ranging medical research study that will analyze data from across its various devices to discover new connections across physical and mental health — including but not limited to cardiovascular health, neurological health, hearing, and sleep.

Why It Hits: It’s rare for a medical study to be this open-ended, let alone have access to more people than any health-focused study in history. By dissecting the relationships among various areas of health via wearables, headphones, and smartphones, Apple should have no problem realizing its ambition of becoming the leader in consumer-first health tech… with the devices that everyone already uses.

Behind the Study: The new “Apple Health Study” is ready to research… well… all of it.

Closing Thoughts: Considering that Apple’s first major medical study, the “Apple Heart Study,” which resulted in several new features for the Apple Watch, was able to recruit 400,000 willing participants (most medical studies are lucky to get a few thousand), the sample size for this cross-discipline study may be the broadest and most diverse of its kind ever conducted — taking into consideration people across ages, genders, ethnicities, and geographies.

According to lead researcher Calum MacRae, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, that could help fill in many “information gaps” in current medical research.

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98% of you voted Yes in yesterday’s poll: Do you think social media addiction is a real problem in today’s world?

“Absolutely. I am so tired of trying to have conversations with people while they randomly scroll through their phones at useless nonsense, pretending to be listening.”

“100%. I see people watching TV on their phones while driving. It’s crazy.”

“And sadly, we’re not just talking about tweens — doomscrollers and those of us who can’t get enough puppy content, too.”

“It hijacks your dopamine system.”

“I had to give it up completely, because it became such a problem in my life.”

“Here I am reading articles and answering polls instead of interacting with other human beings or doing my job.”

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🏈 The Super Bowl racked up a record $800 million in ad sales for Fox.

🎥 2024’s movie slate was the first time there was an equal number of male and female lead roles.

📱 Apple TV+ is coming to Android (Samsung diehards want to watch Severance, too).

🧑‍💻 Workday is rolling out a dashboard, so businesses can manage all of their AI agents.

🤖 Adobe AI-video generator, creatively called “Video Generator,” is now in public beta.

👀 Gen Z doesn’t really care about China spying on them via apps and hardware. Yikes.

💰 Yahoo News has started sharing ad revenue with 100 digital creators to draw traffic to their updated site.

✋ SHEIN is pausing its creator partnerships until at least March, as it awaits the final decision on the US’s import rules.

🤳 AI film studio Promise has unveiled a slate of development deals with AI video creators.