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OpenAI is bringing over 200 Disney characters to Sora
OpenAI and The Walt Disney Company have reached an agreement enabling Sora users to generate videos with over 200 beloved Disney characters.
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The next AI wave: what’s standing in the way?
Data centers are becoming more and more power-hungry. What do we do?
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Presidential AI challenge calls on K-12 students to help push AI innovation
The White House has launched the first-ever student-driven AI challenge – for all kids, kindergarten through high school – to foster AI innovation in communities across the nation.
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Is there a right amount of AI use at work to boost happiness?
The hype surrounding AI has died down a little bit in recent times, with generative AI officially in Gartner's "trough of disillusionment". Deployment seems to be following a familiar pattern, with initial forays ad hoc efforts driven by employees, before organizations try to formalize things (often unsuccessfully).
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Friend-for-rent Sam reminds us that people sought virtual companions back in 1980s
The rise in artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots makes us feel like living in a dystopian future. However, people were seeking virtual companionship back in the 1980s, when friend-for-rent “Sam” was introduced to the public.
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China heats up AI race by launching giant computing power pool
China has activated a massive artificial intelligence (AI) computing power pool, but it remains to be seen whether it will give the country a competitive advantage in the intense AI race.
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AI’s data-centre gold rush is drowning in debt
As AI fever has propelled global stocks to record highs, the data centres needed to power the technology are increasingly being financed with debt, adding to concerns about the risks.
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Spotify gives users back control of music curation through new AI “Prompted Playlist” feature
Spotify has released its latest feature, “Prompted Playlist,” which puts the algorithm in users' hands.
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Microsoft announces plans to invest $23B in AI development
Microsoft has unveiled plans to invest $23 billion in new artificial intelligence technology over the next few years.
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Whose line is it anyway? When AI redraws the boundaries of art
In an age of infinite remix, it turns out even wonder has a copyright. Somewhere between Tokyo and the servers...
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Trump signs Executive Order establishing singular federal AI policy
US President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise, signing an Executive Order (EO) on Thursday that creates a single national AI law to supersede the current patchwork of state regulations. Cybernews breaks it down.
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 with mental health safeguards amid new ChatGPT death lawsuit
OpenAI launches a new "professional" GPT 5.2 model, built with new mental health safeguards, as another lawsuit is filed blaming ChatGPT for encouraging suicide.
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Pentagon rolls out its own AI platform, but experts warn a single mistake could be disastrous
Nearly three million Department of War (DoW) employees will have access to a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform powered by Google Gemini announced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. What could go wrong?
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Nvidia builds new tech to track its AI chips
Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer Nvidia has built location verification technology that can track the location of its graphics processing units (GPUs).
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AI prompt injection attacks are inevitable, but we can mitigate the risks
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the United Kingdom’s cybersecurity agency, believes that AI prompt injection attacks will never be preventable. At best, the risks associated with these kinds of attacks can be reduced.
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OpenAI warns "high" cybersecurity risk posed by new AI models
OpenAI on Wednesday warned that its upcoming artificial intelligence models could pose a "high" cybersecurity risk, as their capabilities advance rapidly.
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Instacart’s AI may raise grocery prices by up to 23%
The price of groceries delivered through the artificial intelligence (AI)- powered platform Instacart may differ significantly among customers, resulting in a cost swing of approximately $1,200 per year.
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McDonald’s AI Christmas ad trashed by holiday lovers, but is it really that terrible?
McDonald’s was forced to pull its Christmas ad despite taking “seven sleepless weeks” to create it.
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Trump’s national AI rule: the good, the bad, and the ugly
President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order establishing a nationwide rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI), which would preempt individual states’ laws.
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Digital violence against women – fueled by AI – has doubled since 2020, UN report finds
The rise of AI is fueling online violence against women, especially those who work in public-facing jobs – including human rights defenders, activists, and journalists – increasing to an unprecedented level in just the past five years, a new UN report said on Tuesday.
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