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Google's Project Genie: The Promise of Interactive Worlds to Explore
The experimental AI prototype generates playable 3D environments from text prompts, triggering a 15% gaming stock selloff.
Rise of the Moltbots
A brief glimpse into an internet dominated by synthetic AI beings.
Anthropic Bets Models Are Smart Enough To Reason Towards Alignment And Safety
The AI company released a vastly expanded constitution for its language model, shifting from rigid constraints to philosophical reasoning about ethics and safety.
Adobe's Firefly Foundry: The bet on ethically trained AI
Major entertainment companies are building custom generative AI models trained exclusively on their own content libraries, as Adobe partners with Disney, CAA, and UTA to address the industry's copyright anxiety.
EU Launches AI Gigafactories to Break American Monopoly on Large-Scale Model Training
A €7 billion escalation from Europe's previous AI investments marks a shift from research to production-scale infrastructure
Memory Prices Double as AI Eats the World's RAM Supply
Data centers will consume 70% of global memory production this year, leaving everyone else scrambling for scraps at premium prices.
YouTube Will Clone You Now If You're a Creator Making Shorts
The platform's CEO promised AI avatars that can generate videos using your face and voice, marking YouTube's first move into creator identity synthesis.
Hundreds of Creatives Launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" Against AI Training
Cate Blanchett, Scarlett Johansson, and R.E.M. join approximately 800 artists demanding licensing rights.
Apple Taps Google's Gemini to Power Siri, Sidelining OpenAI
Eighteen months after touting ChatGPT integration, Apple bets its voice assistant future on Google instead
New York Challenges Trump with the Country's Toughest AI Safety Laws
New York is enacting the country’s toughest AI safety rules despite federal pushback, setting a state-level standard for model governance.
Kling AI Hits 60 Million Users
Kling, a Chinese video generator, hits $240 million ARR
OpenAI to Get Access to Disney’s Iconic Characters in New $1B Deal.
The entertainment giant's $1 billion investment in OpenAI grants exclusive access to 200+ characters from Marvel to Mickey, while simultaneously threatening legal action against competitors.
Universal Music Group Bets on NVIDIA to Fight the 'AI Slop' It Once Sued Over
UMG is partnering with NVIDIA's Music Flamingo model to manage AI-generated music quality, moving from lawsuits to collaboration with Silicon Valley.
Warner Bros. escalates its lawsuit against Midjourney.
Warner Bros. is leveraging willful infringement claims at $150,000 per character to pressure AI platforms over unauthorized use of its IP.
Trump's DOJ Prepares to Sue States Over AI Laws
The DOJ under Trump is gearing up to challenge state AI regulations, setting up a federal-state showdown over model governance.
Lightricks Drops LTX-2: An Open Model With Native Sound and 4K Video
Lightricks’ LTX-2 brings native sound and 4K video generation as an open model, pushing creative tools beyond text-to-video incumbents.
China Bans 'Magic Editing' of Revolutionary Heroes in AI Video Crackdown
Beijing's media regulator launched a month-long campaign targeting AI-altered videos that "vulgarize" classic Chinese works, requiring platforms to review all AI content before publication.
Meta Acquires AI Agent Startup Manus for $2B Amid Beijing's Export Review
Meta is buying agent startup Manus for over $2B to bring task-completing AI into its products, but China may review the deal for export controls.
Getty v. Stability: United Kingdom Appeal Revives Debate Over Whether AI Models Store Images
A major court ruling found that AI models do not include copyrighted training data. Now, this decision is being appealed, and the industry is left wondering about possible territorial loopholes.
Microsoft's Data Center Revolt Forces "Community-First" Pledge
The tech giant promises to cover power grid costs and reject tax breaks after widespread backlash over AI infrastructure's resource demands.
Publishers Seek Court Sanctions Against OpenAI for Deleting Evidence
Major news organizations allege OpenAI destroyed millions of ChatGPT logs that were critical to their copyright infringement case, asking a federal judge to instruct jurors to assume the worst.
YouTubers Launch Class Action Against ByteDance Over AI Training Data
Major creators including Ethan Klein are suing ByteDance and Meta for allegedly circumventing YouTube's security to scrape videos for AI model training.
EU Proposes an "AI Icon" for Deepfakes as Mandatory Labeling Deadline Approaches
The European Commission's draft Code of Practice establishes a two-tier system for synthetic media transparency, requiring machine-readable "marking" and human-visible "labeling" by August 2026.
Apple's Siri Overhaul Exposes the $2 Trillion Cost of Privacy Theater
The Gemini partnership represents Apple's tacit admission that its decade-long privacy narrative was always more marketing than technical reality.
Warner Bros. Discovers Midjourney Removed Its Own Video Guardrails
The studio's new legal filing claims the AI company deliberately stripped protections that blocked copyrighted characters—then marketed it as an "improvement."
Disney Drops $1B on OpenAI, Unlocks Mickey Mouse for Sora Video Generation
The entertainment giant's equity investment and three-year licensing deal marks Hollywood's first major capitulation to generative AI platforms, granting Sora users access to over 200 Disney characters while the company simultaneously threatens Google with copyright enforcement.
Researchers Release Tool That Makes Objects Vanish From Video—Including Their Shadows
A new framework called Object-WIPER removes unwanted elements from footage without retraining models, raising questions about evidence authenticity as video manipulation becomes trivially easy.
Suno's Legal Détente Arrives as GEMA Lawsuit Looms
The AI music generator's v4.5+ update brings professional features while Warner settles—but German rights society pushes forward with copyright claims.
Disney's $1 Billion AI Gamble: License Characters or Lose Control Forever
The entertainment giant's OpenAI deal grants exclusive access to more than 200 characters for AI video generation, while simultaneously threatening legal action against competitors.
Disney's $1B OpenAI Deal Splits Hollywood on AI's Future
The entertainment giant's equity investment and character licensing agreement with OpenAI validates generative video while weaponizing copyright against competitors, creating a two-tier system where paying AI companies get legal protection and others face litigation risk.
UK Criminalizes AI Nudes After Grok Scandal Forces Emergency Action
The government fast-tracks deepfake laws as Ofcom investigates X for hosting AI-generated sexual images, including those of minors.
Google's Project Genie Lets You Dream Worlds Into Being, For 60 Seconds
The search giant's new AI prototype generates playable 3D environments from text prompts, but early users describe it more as a dream simulator than a game engine.
Apple Picks Google Over OpenAI to Power Siri's Next Chapter
After delays and false starts, Apple is betting on Google's Gemini models—not OpenAI's ChatGPT—to finally deliver the intelligent Siri upgrade it's been promising since 2024.
Memory Prices Double as AI Eats the World's RAM Supply
Data centers will consume 70% of global memory production this year, leaving everyone else scrambling for scraps at premium prices.
Pulitzer Winner Leads Copyright Revolt Against AI Giants, Targets Musk's xAI
Six prominent authors including John Carreyrou are abandoning class-action settlements to pursue individual lawsuits worth up to $150,000 per book against major AI companies.
Google Flow Hits Workspace: Your Corporate Training Videos Just Got Cinematic
Google's AI video generator Flow, previously locked behind premium subscriptions, rolled out to millions of Workspace users this week—bringing Hollywood-grade effects to the humble product demo.
Wikipedia Strikes AI Data Deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
The nonprofit encyclopedia is converting its biggest bandwidth drain—AI scrapers harvesting video and text—into paid enterprise partnerships.
Wikipedia's Big Tech Shakedown Finally Arrives
After years of free scraping that strained servers, Wikipedia has formalized paid deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon for enterprise API access to its vast text and multimedia archives.
Hollywood's Sora Betrayal: Agents Say OpenAI Knew Exactly What It Was Doing
Major talent agencies accuse OpenAI of calculated deception after Sora 2 launched without promised safeguards, sparking copyright chaos and deepfake scandals.
Bandcamp Bans AI-Generated Music in Industry-First Policy Shift
The indie music platform explicitly prohibits content created "wholly or in substantial part" by artificial intelligence, positioning itself against Spotify's embrace of algorithmic tracks.
Wikipedia's Paid API Gambit: Tech Giants Now Pay for What They Used to Scrape
After years of bandwidth-crushing bot traffic, Wikipedia has formalized paid enterprise deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon for structured access to its text and multimedia archives.
UK Police Chief Blames Microsoft Copilot for Fabricating Soccer Match in Fan Ban Decision
A parliamentary inquiry reveals West Midlands Police used an AI hallucination as evidence to ban Israeli soccer fans, sparking calls for the chief constable's resignation.
Senate Passes Bill Letting Deepfake Victims Sue for Up to $250,000
The DEFIANCE Act cleared the Senate unanimously, creating a federal right to sue creators and distributors of nonconsensual sexually explicit AI forgeries.
Washington State Weighs AI Disclosure Rules as Consumer Groups Push for Stronger Protections
Consumer Reports warns proposed legislation contains critical loopholes that could undermine transparency requirements for synthetic media.
Memory Prices Double as AI Eats the World's RAM
Data centers will consume 70% of global memory production this year, leaving PC builders and enterprise buyers scrambling for increasingly expensive scraps.
AI2 Drops Molmo2: Open Video Models That Actually Know Where Things Are
The Allen Institute releases vision-language models with pixel-perfect grounding capabilities, trained on 9 million videos without using proprietary model outputs—and they're beating Gemini at its own game.
DepthDirector Breaks Video AI's "Inpainting Trap" With 3D Scene Understanding
Tsinghua University researchers demonstrate how explicit depth mapping enables precise camera control in generated videos, moving beyond the fill-in-the-blanks approach that has limited the field.
Researchers Crack the "Inpainting Trap" with Depth-Based Video Control
A new wave of AI video models abandons frame-patching for explicit 3D understanding, enabling precise camera movements that maintain subject consistency across complex scenes.
Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation as Video AI Becomes Marketing Infrastructure
The AI video startup raised $80 million to scale its "reasoning engine" that orchestrates multiple models for brand-consistent content, reaching $200 million in annual revenue within nine months.
Washington State Wants AI Companies to Build Their Own Lie Detectors
Consumer Reports backs a bill requiring tech giants to offer free tools that identify AI-generated content, but warns of privacy loopholes that could turn detection into surveillance.