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Meta has formally pushed back against an incendiary copyright suit that accuses the company of pirating thousands of adult films to train its AI systems, calling the allegations conjecture, unsupported, and legally deficient. The dispute — brought by adult‑film rights holders Strike 3 Holdings...

If you’re tired of wrestling with SEO-filtered Google results, ads and endless link lists, a short, conversational approach using AI chatbots can often reach the answer faster — and that’s exactly the practical case made in the AOL guide that kicked off this conversation. Background / Overview...

A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has concluded that mainstream AI assistants misrepresent news content in a strikingly high share of cases—about 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue, while...

Anthropic quietly opened a fresh front in the enterprise AI wars today by shipping “Claude for Excel” — an Excel add-in that embeds its Claude assistant directly into the spreadsheet sidebar, targets high‑stakes finance workflows with live market connectors and pre‑built agent skills, and...

A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and scaled by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked to summarize current events, mainstream AI assistants commonly produce outputs that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s...

A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, widely used AI assistants routinely produce summaries that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s Gemini emerged as...

A large-scale, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: mainstream AI assistants regularly misrepresent news in ways that matter, with roughly 45% of evaluated responses containing at least one...

Galleri 5’s premiere of what is being billed as India’s first AI-powered OTT serial marks a watershed moment for the country’s media ecosystem — but the story behind the launch is as much about cloud partnerships, corporate acquisitions, and technical tradeoffs as it is about a new way to tell...

Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...

Microsoft and India’s Collective Artists Network (CAN) have placed Galleri5 — CAN’s in‑house technology studio — onto Microsoft Azure AI Foundry to build a production pipeline aimed at scaling AI‑driven filmmaking, episodic storytelling, advertising and virtual talent, and the collaboration is...

A coordinated audit by 22 public broadcasters has issued a blunt verdict: popular AI chat assistants routinely misrepresent news, with nearly half of tested responses containing at least one significant problem that could mislead readers. Background / Overview Public-service newsrooms across 18...

AI chatbots are no longer curiosities — they're a primary information conduit for millions — and a new set of audits shows that when people trust these systems for news, the results can be dangerous, confusing, and institutionally corrosive. Recent independent research led by the BBC and the...

Microsoft and India’s Collective Artists Network (CAN) have announced a strategic partnership that places Galleri5 — CAN’s in‑house technology studio — on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry as the backbone for a production pipeline aimed at scaling AI‑driven filmmaking, episodic storytelling...

A coordinated audit by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, popular AI assistants—including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Perplexity—produce answers that contain at least one significant problem nearly...

A coordinated editorial audit led by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and supported by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about news events, popular AI assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity — produced answers with...

Ever since R2‑D2 chirped across movie screens, science fiction has quietly trained whole generations to expect certain personalities from machines: loyal sidekicks, inscrutable overlords, seductive companions, or tragic mirrors of ourselves. That cultural schooling matters now more than ever...

A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...

A coordinated audit by public broadcasters across Europe has delivered a blunt verdict: widely used AI chat assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity — produce misleading or plainly incorrect answers about news events at an alarming rate, with...

A major new study by public-service broadcasters has concluded that popular AI assistants regularly misrepresent news — with nearly half of sampled answers containing significant problems — a finding that should reframe how Windows users, enterprises and everyday news consumers treat chat-driven...

Google’s NotebookLM arrived as a purpose-built, notebook-style research assistant that asks a deceptively simple premise: give the AI the documents you care about and let it answer questions, summarize, and generate study materials that are explicitly grounded in those sources. What makes...