Walt Disney and Comcast Universal studios filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on June 11, 2025, calling it a "bottomless pit of plagiarism". In the complaint filed in California Federal Court, the companies allege that the AI image generator created and distributed innumerable copies of their iconic characters
Meta Platforms is in talks to make an investment that could exceed $10 billion in Scale AI, an artificial intelligence startup currently valued at $13.8 billion. Bloomberg News reported on the not-yet-finalised deal on June 8, 2025, which would mark Meta's largest external AI investment to date.
ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular AI chatbot, suffered a decisive defeat against a 46-year-old Atari 2600 chess program when researcher Stephen Cobb pitted the two systems against each other in March 2024. During the experiment, the gaming console won five out of six matches, with ChatGPT securing only a single
Google's AI Overviews search feature made a significant error regarding Thursday's plane crash, incorrectly identifying Airbus as responsible instead of Boeing, raising serious concerns about generative AI reliability. Google's AI Overviews feature, which debuted in 2024, made a significant error on June 12, 2025,
The New York Times announced on 29 May 2025 that it has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with Amazon, allowing the tech giant to use the publisher's news, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic content across its AI platforms and services, including the Alexa assistant. Under the agreement,
Amazon.com announced an expanded nuclear energy partnership with Talen Energy on June 11, 2025, to supply up to 1,920 megawatts of electricity from its Susquehanna plant in Pennsylvania to Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres until 2042. The long-term deal ensures Talen a steady revenue stream while supporting
TikTok owner ByteDance unveiled Seedance 1.0, a new artificial intelligence model for video generation in June 2025, which according to independent tests outperforms rival systems including Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora. Based on the latest results from Artificial Analysis, an internationally renowned evaluation platform,
Wikipedia began testing AI-generated summaries on its mobile interface on June 2, only to suspend the trial on June 3 following overwhelming resistance from the editorial community. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation that runs Wikipedia, offered the opt-in experiment to 10% of users, featuring "simple summaries" generated
Research data, by its very nature, often contains sensitive information that requires careful protection. Whether dealing with personal health records, proprietary research findings, confidential survey responses, or commercially sensitive datasets, researchers must navigate the tension between leveraging the analytical power of GenAI systems and maintaining appropriate levels of data protection.
Mistral introduced Mistral Code on June 4th, an AI-powered coding assistant that combines four specialised models to help enterprises complete development tasks faster. The system uses Codestral for code completion, Codestral Embed for code search, Devstral for agentic coding tasks, and Mistral Medium for chat-based support. Mistral Code builds on
French AI lab Mistral AI officially announced Magistral on June 10, 2025, its first family of reasoning models capable of step-by-step thinking, available in two variants: the open-source 24-billion-parameter Magistral Small and the enterprise-focused Magistral Medium. Magistral Medium scored 73.6% accuracy on the AIME2024 mathematics benchmark, rising to 90%
Generative AI systems rely on vast quantities of text, images and other materials in their training. These models can generate new content, yet the copyright status of both the underlying training data and the outputs produced remains uncertain. Researchers and developers therefore need to understand the differing legal frameworks in
