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A federal judge has thrown out major components of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI, dealing a blow to creators who argue their work was illegally used to train ChatGPT.

Citing a youth mental health emergency, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has urged Congress to mandate warning labels on social media platforms, likening the potential harm to that of tobacco products.

Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI has secured $640 million in its latest funding round, signaling intense investor confidence in its open and efficient models as it scales up to challenge industry giants like OpenAI.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of using deceptive “dark patterns” to trick consumers into signing up for its Prime service and deliberately complicating the cancellation process.

AI video startup Pika Labs has secured $80 million in new funding and launched Pika 1.0, a comprehensive platform with tools to generate and edit high-quality video from text and images, intensifying competition in the generative video space.

Google has unveiled the South Pacific Connect initiative, a major project to build two new subsea fiber optic cables creating the first direct link between South America, French Polynesia, and Australia to boost global connectivity.

Google DeepMind has introduced SIMA, a groundbreaking AI agent that learns to play a wide variety of 3D video games by observing human players and following natural language instructions. The new system represents a significant step toward developing more generalized AI that can operate in complex digital environments.

A new report claims that TikTok parent company ByteDance secretly used data from OpenAI’s powerful language models to develop its own competing AI, a move that violates OpenAI’s terms of service.

OpenAI is collaborating with health technology company Color Health to develop an AI copilot, built on GPT-4o, aimed at assisting doctors in creating personalized cancer screening plans and treatment strategies.