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The artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit with authors and publishers. This represents the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Cade Metz reports for The New York Times that the settlement follows a judge’s ruling that Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of books from pirated online …
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the prominent artificial intelligence image generator Midjourney, accusing it of mass copyright infringement. Winston Cho reports for The Hollywood Reporter that the complaint alleges Midjourney built its business by illegally using the studio’s movies and TV shows to train its AI system. Warner Bros. Discovery claims the …
Software company Atlassian has agreed to purchase The Browser Co., maker of AI-powered web browsers, for $610 million in cash. The deal is expected to close by December, according to a report by Jordan Novet for CNBC. The Browser Co., founded in 2019, developed two browsers competing against Google Chrome and Apple Safari. Its Arc …
AI company Anthropic will start using user chat transcripts and coding sessions to train its language models unless users actively opt out, The Verge reports. All users must make a decision by September 28th through a pop-up notification. Those who click “Accept” allow Anthropic to immediately begin training on their data and retain it for …
OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 has encountered significant user resistance, forcing the company to reverse several key decisions within days of the launch. The controversy centers on the company’s attempt to simplify ChatGPT by removing older AI models and eliminating user choice. When OpenAI launched GPT-5 on August 7, the company simultaneously retired popular models including …
OpenAI has released two new open source language models, gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B, marking its first major open release since 2019. According to a report by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, the initial reactions from the AI community are highly mixed. Supporters praise the move as a significant step for open source AI in the West. Experts …
Yelp is automatically creating short videos about restaurants and other businesses using generative artificial intelligence. According to a report by The Verge, this feature is now available nationwide in the United States on Yelp’s iOS app. The system combines photos and videos uploaded by users to create a short, narrated clip. Generative AI models from …
OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT service is set to reach 700 million weekly active users this week, up from 500 million in March. According to an article by MacKenzie Sigalos for CNBC, this represents a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth. The company also stated that daily user messages have surpassed three billion. In …
Google has started negotiations with news publishers to pay for content used in its artificial intelligence products. Julia Love and Hannah Miller of Bloomberg report that this move follows competitors like OpenAI and Perplexity AI, who already have such licensing deals in place. According to the report, Google plans to launch a pilot program with …
Meta Platforms Inc. has purchased PlayAI, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence for voice generation. According to an article by Kurt Wagner for Bloomberg, the acquisition is part of Meta’s major investment in AI. The entire PlayAI team will join Meta to advance its work on voice technology. The company stated in an internal memo …