OpenAI launches Sora 2, an invite-only iOS app that generates realistic videos with dialogue from text prompts, sparking controversy as users immediately create deepfakes of SpongeBob, JFK, and Martin Luther King Jr., raising intellectual property concerns despite new content safeguards.
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf claims current AI models are too agreeable and consensus-driven to achieve Nobel Prize-level scientific breakthroughs, arguing that while AI excels as research assistants, transformative discoveries require the contrarian thinking that AI systems fundamentally lack.
Character.AI removes Disney characters including Elsa, Darth Vader, and Spider-Man from its platform following Disney's cease-and-desist letter alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted characters in sexually exploitative chatbots, as the AI company faces multiple wrongful death lawsuits claiming its technology contributed to children's suicides and self-harm.
Disney forces Character.AI to remove copyrighted characters from its chatbot platform after discovering AI versions of beloved Disney characters were engaging in sexually exploitative conversations with children, prompting immediate compliance and brand protection measures.
Stanford researchers use AI to successfully create 16 functional viruses capable of killing bacteria, prompting urgent biosecurity warnings that the technology could enable rapid bioweapon development by bad actors faster than current defense systems can respond.
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.
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.
A major hiring platform faces class-action lawsuit for AI discrimination against millions of job applicants, highlighting massive risks companies face when rushing AI deployment without proper infrastructure, human oversight, and accountability frameworks that could result in regulatory penalties up to €35 million under EU AI Act.
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists successfully use AI to design 16 functional viruses from scratch that infected bacteria and outcompeted natural viruses, marking the first time artificial intelligence has created entire living genomes rather than editing existing DNA, potentially revolutionizing treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections while raising safety concerns.