AI performer Xania Monet breaks music industry barriers by becoming the first artificial intelligence artist to debut on Billboard airplay charts and securing a multimillion-dollar record deal amid growing controversy over AI replacing human musicians.
OpenAI discontinues free Sora video generation service, implementing paid subscriptions and launching groundbreaking creator compensation system that pays rights holders when their copyrighted characters appear in AI-generated videos, marking a major shift toward sustainable AI monetization.
Adobe unveils three groundbreaking AI tools that revolutionize content creation: Project Frame Forward edits entire videos by modifying just one frame, Project Light Touch reshapes lighting in photos with drag-and-drop simplicity, and Project Clean Take transforms speech emotion and delivery while preserving natural voice characteristics.
Figma acquires Tel Aviv AI startup Weavy for an undisclosed sum, rebranding it as Figma Weave to enhance its design platform with advanced AI-powered image and video generation capabilities using innovative node-based editing tools.
Major Japanese publishers including Sony's Aniplex, Studio Ghibli, and Square Enix formally demand OpenAI stop using their copyrighted content to train the Sora 2 AI model, claiming the system produces outputs that closely resemble their works without permission and violates Japanese copyright law.
Cameo sues OpenAI in federal court for trademark infringement, claiming the AI company's use of 'cameo' in Sora's deepfake feature deliberately confuses consumers and damages their brand by associating it with artificial content.
A groundbreaking study of 186,000 newspaper stories reveals that 9% contain undisclosed AI-generated content, with smaller local papers using artificial intelligence significantly more than national publications, especially for weather, science, and health coverage, while major outlets deploy AI 6.4 times more frequently in opinion pieces than news stories.
Israeli AI company Lightricks launches LTX-2, a revolutionary video generator that creates 4K videos with synchronized audio from text prompts at one-tenth the cost of OpenAI's Sora, targeting the massive $600 billion global video production market.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of 'really bad stuff' coming from AI technology as the company's new video app Sora 2 tops Apple's App Store while generating controversial Holocaust denial deepfakes and fake criminal footage of public figures, raising urgent concerns about society's ability to distinguish real from fabricated video …
Meta removes viral deepfake video from Facebook that falsely shows Irish presidential frontrunner Catherine Connolly withdrawing from Friday's election, with the AI-generated fake news broadcast gaining nearly 30,000 views before takedown.