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AI News Digest - March 03, 2026

3 stories · March 3, 2026

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Video Game History Foundation Exposes Copyright Trolling and Flaws in "Cookie's Bustle" Claims

The Video Game History Foundation investigated and successfully challenged a DMCA takedown campaign against content related to the game "Cookie's Bustle." Their inquiry revealed that the takedown notices were frivolous, the trademark applications lacked enforceability, and the copyright registrations offered by INTEROCO were legally meaningless.

Sources: via Hacker News

Product

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite with Competitive Pricing

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, a new model in its Flash-Lite family, offering significantly lower pricing. The model is priced at $0.25/million input tokens and $1.5/million output tokens, making it 1/8th the cost of previous models.

Sources: via Simon Willison

Product

Free Online OCR Tool Converts PDFs and Images to Editable Text

A free online OCR tool has been launched, enabling users to convert scanned PDF documents and images into editable text. The tool supports multi-page PDFs, batch uploads, and column-based layouts with high accuracy.

Sources: via Hacker News

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