Do Son Google quietly removed the open-source Gemma AI model after it was found to fabricate defamatory claims and fake news links about U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn.
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Perplexity launched Perplexity Patents, a free AI research agent that uses natural language to search complex patent data. Its citation-first model is designed to find prior art and enhance IP search transparency.
Pinterest Assistant uses AI to analyze saved Pins and Boards, delivering highly personalized visual recommendations for open-ended queries. Now in US beta.
OpenAI expanded the Sora App to Asia, featuring the popular 'Cameos' tool and strict copyright safeguards after calls from the Japanese government.
Adobe and Google partnered to integrate Premiere Mobile's professional tools directly into the YouTube Shorts workflow, adding AI features and exclusive templates.
Adobe's Firefly now features a timeline-based Video Editor (beta), Generate Soundtrack for licensed music, and Generate Speech for voiceovers, spanning the entire creative workflow.
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia powered by Grok that aims to challenge Wikipedia's bias with transparent sourcing
OpenAI is reportedly developing a text/audio-to-music AI generator and is collaborating with students from The Juilliard School to train its models.
Anthropic dramatically expands its Google Cloud partnership, securing access to up to 1 million TPU accelerators and 1 GW of compute for future Claude model development.
EA and Stability AI will co-develop generative AI tools for faster asset and texture creation, a move likely aimed at cutting costs amid EA's privatization.
The Wikimedia Foundation reported an 8% drop in page views, blaming AI chatbots and search summaries for siphoning traffic. It warns the decline threatens the sustainability of its volunteer community.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted at Dreamforce that ChatGPT briefly surpassed Google's AI, but insists the "Code Red" moment fueled the company's long-term pursuit of generative AI innovation.
Google released Veo 3.1, an advanced AI video model with stronger prompt adherence, Image-to-Video generation from start/end frames, and a new capability for generating synchronized audio.
Japan formally requested OpenAI to stop Sora 2 from infringing on its "irreplaceable" anime and manga IP after users generated videos of Dragon Ball and Pokémon.
Microsoft announced MAI-Image-1, its first in-house AI image generation model, now in testing for Copilot and Bing Image Creator, signaling a major push for technological self-reliance.
Google is integrating its Nano Banana AI image editor across Search, NotebookLM, and Photos. The feature will enhance video overviews and enable AI image editing via conversational prompts.
MIT & Toyota unveiled Steerable Scene Generation, an AI tool that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to autonomously create 44M+ realistic 3D virtual scenes for training robots.
OpenAI Wins Reprieve: Court Vacates Order Forcing Indefinite Preservation of All ChatGPT Output Data
OpenAI Wins Reprieve: Court Vacates Order Forcing Indefinite Preservation of All ChatGPT Output Data
A US federal court vacated the controversial order requiring OpenAI to indefinitely preserve all ChatGPT output data in The New York Times copyright infringement lawsuit.
OpenAI's Sora video app hit 1 million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT, despite being invite-only. The platform quickly introduced controls amid copyright concerns.
1Password launched Secure Agentic Autofill to prevent AI agents from accessing credentials. It uses Touch ID for approval, creating a secure, human-in-the-loop workflow for web automation.
IBM and Anthropic partnered to embed Claude AI into a new IDE for enterprise software development, with early internal testing reporting an average 45% developer productivity boost.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at DevDay that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users, making it the world's most dominant generative AI platform.