ByteDance halts the global launch of its AI video tool Seedance 2.0 after Hollywood studios, including Disney, fire off cease-and-desist letters over viral AI-generated clips depicting celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, forcing the TikTok parent company to overhaul its intellectual property safeguards before proceeding.
Netflix acquires Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup InterPositive for up to $600 million, with the final price dependent on performance targets being met.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announces his resignation after 18 years at the helm, sending shares plunging 7% despite the company posting record-beating quarterly revenue of $6.40 billion and tripling its AI-driven product sales year over year.
OpenAI is integrating its Sora video generator directly into ChatGPT, sparking deepfake fears as the tool has already been used to create realistic fake videos of historical figures, while the move signals a competitive push against Anthropic's rapidly growing Claude platform.
Nearly 10,000 authors, including Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Osman, publish a deliberately empty book titled 'Don't Steal This Book' at the London Book Fair, demanding the UK government block AI companies from using copyrighted creative work without permission or payment.
Nielsen's Gracenote is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming the AI giant scraped its human-curated entertainment metadata without permission to train models like ChatGPT, despite repeated ignored licensing attempts.
AI-generated fake images and 'shallowfakes' are flooding social media amid the Iran conflict, with millions unknowingly spreading misinformation as manipulated visuals — including fabricated explosion photos and satellite imagery — blur reality, while experts warn the erosion of trust in visual media poses serious humanitarian risks.
AI-generated fake war videos depicting false events like downed U.S. fighter jets and missile strikes on Tel Aviv are flooding social media during the U.S.-Iran conflict, racking up tens of millions of views, as experts warn AI is polluting the information environment at unprecedented speed and scale.
Renowned Irish novelist Colm Tóibín sounds the alarm on generative AI, warning that machines can now replicate human literary style and sensibility, threatening to make novelists obsolete while serving corporate interests, deskilling writers, and carrying devastating environmental costs.
Cluely CEO Roy Lee confesses his $7M ARR figure shared with TechCrunch was a lie, then compounds the scandal by falsely claiming the interview was unsolicited — contradicting records showing his own PR team proactively pitched it.