Paul McCartney releases a 2 minute and 45 second silent track called 'Bonus Track' for a protest album of complete silence, challenging proposed U.K. copyright laws that would allow AI companies to exploit recorded music without compensating creators.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that the tech industry's 'LLM bubble' could burst next year as investors pivot from expensive universal language models to smaller, specialized AI systems that offer faster, cheaper solutions for specific tasks like banking chatbots.
Cybersecurity firm Guardio secures $80 million in funding to combat the rising threat of AI-generated malicious code, reaching $100 million in annual revenue with 500,000 paying users as artificial intelligence creates new security vulnerabilities across digital platforms.
TikTok launches new AI content controls allowing users to filter artificial intelligence-generated videos from their feeds while introducing invisible watermarking technology and investing $2 million in AI literacy education partnerships.
Warner Music Group settles copyright lawsuit with AI music platform Udio, clearing the path for a 2026 licensed platform featuring catalog artists like Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and Dua Lipa, while Sony remains the sole major label still fighting the AI company in court.
Luma AI secures $900 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation, with CEO Amit Jain claiming their Ray3 reasoning model outperforms OpenAI's Sora as the visual content generation startup plans to build a massive 2-gigawatt compute cluster and expand aggressively into India and emerging markets.
CapCut unveils a free AI design tool powered by Seedream 4.0 that generates professional logos, ads, and marketing visuals in minutes, offering advanced features like product scene generation and viral design replication while users retain full copyright ownership.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a groundbreaking coding AI that operates continuously for 24 hours, runs up to 42% faster while using 30% fewer tokens, and becomes the first OpenAI model specifically optimized for Windows environments with enhanced cybersecurity monitoring.
AI music platform Suno secures $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.45 billion valuation, with nearly 100 million users creating songs on its platform as the company expands into professional tools and social features.
Disney CEO Bob Iger announces groundbreaking generative AI features coming to Disney+ that will allow subscribers to create and modify short-form videos using established Disney characters and stories, making Disney the first major entertainment company to embrace AI-powered user content creation despite concerns about artistic originality and uncertain consumer demand.