OpenAI abandons 'io' branding for its upcoming AI hardware devices amid trademark dispute, with the affected product not expected to ship until 2027 according to Monday court filings.
OpenAI's Sora video app crashes with downloads plummeting 45% in January and consumer spending dropping 32% as copyright controversies and fierce competition from Google's Gemini and Meta AI send the once-promising platform tumbling from top charts to No. 101 on App Store.
Music publishers escalate their legal battle against Anthropic with a massive $3 billion lawsuit over 20,000 song copyright violations, while Deezer's new AI detection tool identifies 13.4 million generated tracks with 99.8% accuracy amid growing industry tensions over artificial intelligence's role in music creation.
Over 800 Hollywood stars including Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett launch 'Stealing Isn't Innovation' petition demanding AI companies stop using copyrighted works without permission, while the entertainment industry remains deeply divided on artificial intelligence adoption.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI music album featuring legendary artists Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who co-create full compositions from simple prompts while retaining complete authorship and commercial rights to their AI-generated tracks.
ElevenLabs launches groundbreaking AI-generated album featuring GRAMMY winners Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, who use Eleven Music technology to create original compositions across rap, pop, R&B, and EDM genres while maintaining full artistic ownership and commercial licensing rights.
Cloudflare acquires UK-based AI data marketplace Human Native to develop new developer tools that enable fair transactions between AI creators and content providers, expanding the company's mission to revolutionize internet content monetization through transparent data access channels.
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio channels with over 2 million combined subscribers for creating AI-generated fake movie trailers that deceived viewers, while major Hollywood studios including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony secretly profited from the misleading content by collecting ad revenue instead of protecting their copyrights.
AI startup Ankar raises $20 million to revolutionize patent approval processes, using language models to slash approval times from 24 months while increasing productivity by 40% for clients like L'Oréal.
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses iconic Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel characters for the Sora AI video generator, marking Hollywood's major embrace of artificial intelligence technology with fan-requested content launching in early 2026 on Disney+.