The Peer-to-Processor Review

Kaggle removed a stroke image dataset after it was found to contain stock images and photos of politicians and celebrities labeled as stroke patients, violating intellectual property rights.

Hachette reported a solid first half of 2026 despite a soft publishing market, and confirmed it is in line to receive a substantial windfall from the recently approved $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement in the U.S.

New U.K.

An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch reveals that a 6-year-old girl died during a privately funded gene-editing clinical trial in China costing her family over $800,000.

A U.S.

A landmark $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and publishers/authors has received final court approval, with individual authors receiving up to $3,000 per work and major publishers receiving tens of millions.

The ALA has formally adopted institutional guidance on AI use in libraries, establishing policy frameworks for AI integration across library services and collections.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing has formally opposed the OMB's proposed revisions to federal research funding rules (Uniform Guidance), joining an unprecedented wave of ~500,000 public comments.

STM (the global trade body for academic and professional publishers) has formally joined the wave of opposition to the OMB's proposed revisions to Uniform Guidance federal research funding rules.

The European Union's Horizon Europe program has launched the first projects under RAISE (Resource for AI Science in Europe), focusing on building foundation AI models for scientific domains including materials science, agriculture, and climate.

The American Library Association has issued a special report examining how public and academic libraries are developing policies for generative AI use.

The OMB proposed rule change to the Uniform Guidance for federal grants could restrict how grant funds are spent on publication costs, threatening the financial model of many scholarly societies and publishers.