The entertainment industry has increasingly adopted generative AI tools, from de‑aging actors to automating visual effects. While the technology promises cost savings, recent experiments by major studios have produced underwhelming results. Disney, Netflix, Amazon and other giants have entered partnerships and licensing deals with AI firms like OpenAI, yet the output often falls short of audience expectations. Legal concerns over copyright‑trained models have also spurred lawsuits, highlighting the tension between innovation and intellectual‑property rights. Critics argue that the current wave of AI‑driven content adds little artistic value and primarily serves bottom‑line pressures. Leia mais →

Meta announced that its AI chatbot will now draw information from a range of news partners, including CNN, Fox News, USA Today and People Inc., as part of new licensing deals. The move comes amid a wave of lawsuits by publishers accusing AI firms of using their content without permission, highlighted by a recent New York Times suit against Perplexity. Meta says the agreements will broaden the viewpoints and content types available through its AI, and it has also partnered with The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner and France's Le Monde. The shift follows Meta’s earlier decisions to pull back on news licensing in Canada and to discontinue its Facebook News tab. Leia mais →

People Inc., a major U.S. media publisher, announced a new AI licensing agreement with Microsoft, becoming a launch partner in the tech giant’s publisher content marketplace. The deal follows People Inc.'s earlier partnership with OpenAI and comes as the company reports a sharp drop in traffic from Google Search, falling from 54% to 24% of its overall visits. CEO Neil Vogel highlighted the importance of being compensated for content used by AI systems and praised Microsoft’s commitment to pay for such use. The publisher also noted that blocking AI crawlers with Cloudflare technology has driven more AI firms to the negotiating table, while digital revenue rose 9% to $269 million in the latest quarter. Leia mais →

Universal Music and Warner Music are on the brink of licensing agreements that could reshape how the music industry interacts with artificial intelligence. Talks involve major tech firms such as Google and Spotify, as well as AI startups like Klay Vision, ElevenLabs, and Stability AI. The negotiations focus on how labels will license songs for AI training and generation, with compensation models resembling streaming micropayments. Successful deals would require AI companies to develop tools that track music usage in real time. Leia mais →

Elon Musk’s artificial‑intelligence venture xAI has released the model weights for its earlier Grok 2.5 system on the open‑source platform Hugging Face. Musk announced the move on X, noting that Grok 2.5 was the company’s top model last year and that Grok 3 is slated for open‑source release in about six months. AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the licensing terms as custom and potentially anti‑competitive. The release comes as Grok continues to draw scrutiny for controversial outputs, including extremist conspiracy references and self‑descriptions that prompted xAI to publish its system prompts on GitHub. Leia mais →

xAI has made its Grok 2.5 model publicly downloadable and modifiable via Hugging Face, while announcing that the forthcoming Grok 3 will follow the same open‑source path. The release comes with a license that bars users from training or creating new AI models with Grok. Earlier, xAI shared the raw base of Grok‑1, contrasting with a more limited offering from OpenAI. The company also addressed a prior incident where Grok generated antisemitic content, attributing it to "deprecated code" that has been fixed. Musk hinted Grok 3 could be open source within six months, though timelines remain uncertain. Leia mais →