Grok API adds an invisible watermark to text by default from 7 November
SpaceXSI will add an invisible watermark to text from grok-4.7, grok-4.6, grok-4.5, grok-4.3 and the three grok-4.20 variants from 7 November. The company cites the European AI Act as the reason. The mark is in the model's word choice and adds no characters, so copying and pasting does not remove it. You can see whether a reply is marked in the x-watermark header.
What does this mean? If you build on the Grok API, your output will be recognisable as AI-generated text; only a team administrator can switch it off per model, and must then confirm that a legal exception applies.
Advocate General at the EU Court: Gemini may infringe press publishers' rights
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar concluded on 3 November in the case brought by Hungarian publisher Like Company against Google that a chatbot such as Gemini may, in certain circumstances, infringe press publishers' rights when it retrieves news articles and reuses them in its answers. He argued that training language models on protected material may fall under the exception for text and data mining. The opinion is not binding; the Court will rule in the coming months.
What does this mean? If you use AI answers based on news sources in your own publications, check and cite the original source, as the legal line on reusing press articles is becoming stricter.
UWV: share of higher-educated people among unemployment benefit recipients rises, AI is a major cause
The share of higher-educated people among unemployment benefit recipients rose from 30 per cent in the first half of 2022 to 38 per cent in 2026. UWV increasingly sees AI as a cause, alongside geopolitical uncertainty. Applications are rising sharply, particularly among marketing and advertising staff and market researchers; financial services is expected to lose the most jobs in the coming years.
What does this mean? If you work in marketing, financial services or another field where AI is taking over tasks, it pays to invest now in the tasks AI does not handle well and in working with AI tools yourself.
