Anthropic, Suno Sued for Unlawfully Using Songs by Madonna, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell

Companies are accused of training their AI models using copyrighted music and lyrics.

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI […]

An AI-generated movie flopped in China despite its budget and Hollywood must take notes

China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film struggled to draw audiences despite its reported $1.5 million budget. The result clearly shows that AI technology alone cannot guarantee box-office success.

Apple Creator Studio Brings MotionVFX and AI Assistants to Subscribers

It isn’t just new hardware dropping this week in Apple’s “Pro and Tell” event.

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel’s VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial […]

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI’s latest mind-bending discovery

Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn’t want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may […]

UK Startup Bets $40 Million That It Can Train Robots ‘Instantly’ Via Simulation

Can you train robots almost entirely in simulation? A new UK startup says yes, and has raised $40 million to prove themselves right.

Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.