OpenAI launches a TikTok-style app powered by Sora 2 technology that generates AI-created videos in a vertical feed format, complete with swipe navigation, recommendation algorithms, and social features like liking, commenting, and remixing content.
The EU AI Act becomes the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation, banning high-risk systems like cognitive manipulation and real-time biometric identification starting February 2025, while requiring transparency measures for generative AI platforms like ChatGPT.
Machine translation errors plague up to 60% of Wikipedia articles in vulnerable African languages, creating a devastating 'linguistic doom loop' where AI systems train on flawed content and amplify mistakes, forcing Greenlandic Wikipedia toward closure and threatening the digital preservation of endangered languages worldwide.
Nearly 37% of companies plan to replace workers with AI by 2026, with high-salary employees and those lacking AI skills facing the greatest risk as businesses prioritize automation and cost-cutting amid economic uncertainty.
Apple secretly develops internal ChatGPT rival called 'Veritas' to test revolutionary AI features for Siri's massive overhaul, scheduled to launch March 2026 with capabilities including AI-powered personal data search and in-app photo editing through new 'Linwood' system combining Apple's language models with third-party AI technology.
AI actress Tilly Norwood captures multiple talent agents' attention after her comedy debut, as her creator boldly declares plans to make her the next Scarlett Johansson while studios quietly advance artificial intelligence entertainment projects driven by economic pressures and the belief that audiences prioritize compelling stories over human performers.
German AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs pursues $300 million funding round targeting a $4 billion valuation, quadrupling from its previous $1 billion worth as explosive demand for AI image-editing systems attracts massive investor interest.
Hollywood talent agencies consider signing AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood from studio Xicoia, sparking fierce backlash from prominent actors like Melissa Barrera who threaten boycotts against agencies representing digital performers as the entertainment industry grapples with artificial intelligence's growing presence in film, TV, and gaming.
Tencent launches HunyuanImage-3.0, the world's largest open-source AI image generator with 80 billion parameters and revolutionary autoregressive architecture, featuring 64 experts in a Mixture of Experts design that delivers superior text-to-image generation with advanced world-knowledge reasoning capabilities.
Docker partners with Promptfoo to launch new local AI model testing tools, enabling developers to evaluate and compare open-source models against cloud services while conducting security red-team testing to identify vulnerabilities in AI agents.