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A German appeals court has ruled that online retailers are fully liable for misleading information generated by their AI chatbots. Yvonne Bachmann reports for Händlerbund News that the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (Oberlandesgericht Hamm) issued the ruling on 12 May 2026 (case reference: 4 UKl 3/25). The case was brought by the consumer protection …
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced on Monday. The filing gives Anthropic the option to pursue an initial public offering once the SEC completes its review. The move puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI, which has not yet filed its …
Microsoft is developing a single app that would bring together its various Copilot AI tools under one roof. Sebastian Herrera reports for Fortune that the software company plans to launch such a “super app” by the end of summer 2026. The app would combine GitHub Copilot, the Copilot chat function, the Copilot Cowork tool, and …
CNN has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, accusing it of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN’s journalism. Brian Stelter reports for CNN that this marks the first AI copyright lawsuit filed by a television network. The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New …
Mistral AI used its first-ever company conference in Paris to announce a major expansion into industrial engineering, a new data center south of the French capital, and a rebranding of its consumer assistant. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the moves collectively signal the three-year-old startup’s ambition to become the preferred AI provider for enterprises …
Amazon MGM Studios has launched a new initiative to fund and produce AI-assisted TV shows and movies. The studio announced the GenAI Creators’ Fund, which provides grants and access to AI production tools to filmmakers, digital creators, and tech startups. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that three animated series have already been greenlit for Prime …
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The San Francisco company has now surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup. OpenAI’s last valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. A broad …
YouTube is making it easier for viewers to identify AI-generated content on its platform. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that the platform is introducing automatic AI content labels and moving existing disclosures to more visible positions on the page. Until now, YouTube required creators to manually disclose AI use. Going forward, YouTube will also apply …
Google’s redesigned search experience is experiencing novel problems: users discovered that searching for the word “disregard” and similar terms can return a nearly empty AI-generated response. Russell Brandom reports for TechCrunch that the new interface buries traditional search results far below the fold, replacing them with AI summaries that, in this case, provide no useful …
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, is joining Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X (formerly Twitter), writing that he is “very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D.” At Anthropic, Karpathy will join the pretraining team, which handles the large-scale training runs …