Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
A pioneering nonprofit, Sage Future, has deployed AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic into a virtual realm, where they ingeniously raised funds for Helen Keller International's mission of providing vitamin A supplements to children, showcasing the potential and limitations of AI in charitable endeavors.
The global AI market is exploding toward $4.8 trillion by 2033, but as the US and China dominate 60% of all AI patents and G7 nations control major governance bodies, 118 developing countries are being left powerless and unprotected as trillion-dollar tech giants shape humanity's most transformative technology unchecked.
A sweeping coalition of Nobel laureates, labor unions, faith leaders, and entertainers launches the Pro-Human AI Declaration, demanding strict AI safeguards including bans on unsafe superintelligence development, mandatory off-switches, child protections, and independent oversight to keep humans firmly in control of increasingly powerful AI systems.
AI startup Krea secured $83M in funding, including a $47M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, to develop a platform that streamlines visual creation by integrating multiple generative AI models with a user-friendly interface for designers and visual creatives.
The AI market, encompassing technologies like computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing, is poised for explosive growth, projected to soar from $244.22 billion in 2025 to an astonishing $1.01 trillion by 2031, with the United States leading the charge.
Major publishers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are running an ad campaign demanding that the US government hold tech companies accountable for AI content theft by mandating payment and attribution for copyrighted material used to train AI models.
The NBA utilizes GenAI technology from WSC Sports to generate automated multilingual voice-over commentary for game highlights, achieving over 75% viewer completion rates in French, Portuguese, and Spanish, with plans to expand to more languages and AI content creation applications.
As generative AI systems raise novel challenges around data privacy, scope, temporality, and autonomy that undermine traditional consent mechanisms, experts call for new frameworks involving collective governance, technical safeguards, and legal reforms to protect data rights in the AI era.