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Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client — Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist letter, accusing Google of “massive scale” copyright infringement and using AI to “exploit and distribute” the content — Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to internet giant — As Disney has gone into business with OpenAI …
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws — Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup planning to launch a “Twitter.new” social network, petitions the USPTO to cancel X's trademarks over “abandonment” — A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers; TikTok says that 14 of the accounts don't violate its rules — TikTok AI — AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked … | Tim Dettmers: |
An Ai2 research scientist says AGI may never emerge because such a concept ignores the physical realities and limits of computation, such as energy constraints — If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI.
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google brings Gemini to Chrome for iOS and iPadOS, after debuting on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, starting in the US in English for signed-in users — It can summarize pages, create a FAQ on a topic and modify recipes for your dietary needs. — After rolling it out on desktop …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project from two Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation — Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B, below $16.21B est., and raises its FY capex forecast to ~$50B, up from $35B as of September; ORCL drops 15%+ — Oracle shares sank 11% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing via Cursor's agent — The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and releases a workflow automation agent — After helping to oversee the launch of two of the most influential AI models in recent years - OpenAI's GPT-3.5, also known as ChatGPT … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind plans to open its first “automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more — Big Tech group will work with Sir Keir Starmer's government to enhance AI use across public sector| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
a16z crypto expands to Asia, opens a Seoul office, hires Monad's Sungmo Park as its Asia head, and calls South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market — What to know: … A16z crypto, a venture capital fund of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), said it is expanding into Asia … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it will test Prompted Playlist, which lets users describe what they want to hear and receive a unique set of songs based on their listening history — Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it's giving users more control over the streaming service's algorithm.
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| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT — The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Stanford researchers develop AI hacking bot Artemis and say it surpassed nine out of 10 penetration testers by rapidly finding bugs in the university's network — A recent Stanford experiment shows what happens when an artificial-intelligence hacking bot is unleashed on a network| Wall Street Journal: |
China's power grid, the world's largest, gives it an edge in the global AI contest, helping Chinese companies develop AI models more cheaply than US competitors — Push for power supremacy transforms Inner Mongolia; tech leaders worry about U.S.-China ‘electron gap’
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages — Connected Life combines Nest and Abode devices with AT&T cellular backup to stay online during outages.
More: 9to5Google, Forbes, and Wired
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January to September 2025 finds that health, career, and relationship topics dominated users' questions — People are increasingly turning to Microsoft's Copilot chatbot for advice about their health, careers and relationships …
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| Financial Times: |
Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 — Dutch payments group aims to create new European fintech — Dutch payments group Mollie has agreed to acquire …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Rivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational “Large Driving Model”, to enable fully autonomous driving — The company's chips, quoted at 1,600 trillion operations a second, will fuel a new push into self-driving cars for the EV company.| TechCrunch: |
Runway launches GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and updates Gen 4.5 to add native audio and more — The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an increasing number of startups and big tech companies by launching its first one.| Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: |
Palantir expands its Percepta lawsuit, accusing Percepta's co-founders of poaching its workers and customers, and another employee of stealing confidential docs — Suit says Percepta's chief executive built a ‘copycat’ company after leaving Palantir last year
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| Carlos Garcia / Fortune: |
Berlin-based LI.FI, which provides businesses with price comparisons of crypto exchange rates and bridging fees, raised $29M, taking its total funding to ~$52M — When businesses decide to engage with crypto, they quickly discover the landscape is fragmented across numerous blockchains.
More: CoinDesk
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation — Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it's also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.”
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| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M — Flaviu Radulesc started Runware in 2023 when he was testing a text-to-image company and realized that, though genAI tech was powerful, it was slow in generating images.
More: Tech.eu, Dawn Capital, Ventureburn, and Tech Funding News
| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Sei partners with Xiaomi to preinstall its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 — The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation — AI DevOps tool Harness, founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, is on track to exceed $250 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, Bansal tells TechCrunch.
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