Hollywood's AI divide deepens as the Oscars ban AI-generated acting and writing from eligibility while the Golden Globes allow AI use, sparking fierce debate across the industry as major talent agencies, Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and hundreds of celebrities sign petitions against AI, raising urgent questions about whether human creativity …
Elon Musk admits in a federal California courtroom that xAI used OpenAI's models to train its Grok AI through model distillation, defending the controversial practice as 'standard' in the industry amid growing legal battles over the technique.
Taylor Swift makes an unprecedented legal move by trademarking her voice and stage image to combat AI deepfakes, as legal experts call it an untested but emerging strategy addressing critical gaps that copyright law alone cannot fill.
Anthropic accidentally exposes 512,000 lines of Claude's internal source code via an npm package map file, revealing unreleased features, secret codenames, and a more powerful Claude 4.6 variant — marking the company's second major accidental disclosure in two weeks and raising serious concerns about the safety-focused AI firm's own operational …
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app after just five months, triggering Disney to pull a $1 billion licensing deal as the entertainment giant's AI strategy hangs in uncertainty under new CEO Josh D'Amaro.
OpenAI shuts down its AI video tool Sora as Disney pulls a planned $1 billion investment and ends its licensing partnership, a major blow amid escalating Hollywood copyright battles targeting AI video platforms including Midjourney, Minimax, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.
The White House releases a national AI framework seeking to block state-level regulations and limit federal oversight, outlining six congressional objectives including streamlined data center permits and IP protections, as critics warn the plan leaves citizens vulnerable to AI harms while supporters praise it as a pro-innovation breakthrough.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping nearly 100,000 articles without authorization to train its AI models, while also accusing the company of trademark violations and revenue harm through AI-generated responses that replace their original content.
ByteDance halts the global launch of its AI video tool Seedance 2.0 after Hollywood studios, including Disney, fire off cease-and-desist letters over viral AI-generated clips depicting celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, forcing the TikTok parent company to overhaul its intellectual property safeguards before proceeding.
Nearly 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman, publish a deliberately empty book titled 'Don't Steal This Book' at the London Book Fair, demanding the UK government block AI companies from using copyrighted creative work without permission or payment.