Author: Sharissa Marian Hurtis
A group of popular YouTube content creators has added Snap Inc. to the growing list of tech companies accused of copyright infringement in the development and training of artificial intelligence systems. The plaintiffs, who collectively operate three YouTube channels with more than 6.2 million subscribers, claim that Snap used their video content without permission to train AI-powered features, including the company’s “Imagine Lens,” which allows users to edit and transform images through text prompts. The lawsuit, filed as a proposed class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Friday, asserts that Snap unlawfully leveraged…
Apple is gearing up for a significant leap in artificial intelligence with a major update to its virtual assistant, Siri, powered by Google’s Gemini AI. According to Bloomberg, the new version of Siri is expected to be released in February as part of the iOS 26.4 update. The move is widely seen as Apple’s strategic attempt to compete with leading AI platforms, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI tools, in the rapidly expanding generative AI market. The Siri upgrade will be hosted on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, using high-performance Mac chips to ensure robust processing capabilities. This combination of…
Nearly a decade before ChatGPT captured global attention with its humanlike conversational skills, South Korea received an early glimpse of artificial intelligence’s disruptive potential. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AI system defeated legendary Go player Lee Sedol during a highly publicized tournament in Seoul, stunning the nation. The centuries-old strategy game had long been seen as a pinnacle of human intuition and mastery, making the loss a cultural shock. Lee, an 18-time world champion, later retired from professional play, describing AI as an “entity that cannot be defeated.” The moment resonated beyond the game itself. Then-president Park Geun-hye called South Korea…
MELBOURNE, Australia — A senior Australian lawyer has formally apologized to a judge after admitting that court submissions filed in a murder case contained fabricated quotations and references to legal decisions that do not exist, errors that were generated using artificial intelligence. The incident, which unfolded in the Supreme Court of Victoria, has drawn renewed attention to the risks posed by improper use of AI tools within court systems around the world. The mistake adds to a growing series of AI-related failures in judicial proceedings internationally, where unverified outputs from generative technology have made their way into official legal filings,…
Political tensions sparked by the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday have reverberated through Silicon Valley, where partners at a prominent venture capital firm publicly distanced themselves from a colleague who defended the incident. The killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti was one of five shootings involving federal immigration enforcement officers this month, including the death of Minnesota resident Renee Good. In addition, at least six immigrants have died in federal immigration detention during the same period, marking an unusually high number of deaths in a short time frame. The shooting of Pretti has…
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 has reportedly been drawing on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia for real-time answers, according to a recent report. This development comes amid an escalating public feud between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Despite the growing rivalry between the two tech leaders, their AI platforms appear to be indirectly cooperating. Musk’s AI company xAI launched Grokipedia last year as an AI-generated alternative to Wikipedia. Now, the platform is being referenced by ChatGPT’s latest GPT-5.2 model when it searches the web for information. A report by The Guardian revealed that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times while responding to more than a…
Apple has reportedly placed John Ternus in charge of overseeing its design organization at the executive level, broadening his responsibilities in both hardware and software design strategy. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple CEO Tim Cook asked Ternus, the company’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, to take on an expanded role that includes executive oversight of Apple’s design teams. The change is said to have occurred toward the end of last year and was not publicly announced at the time. Under this new structure, Ternus is expected to serve as an executive sponsor for design across the company, giving…
A new Gallup poll shows that American workers have been integrating artificial intelligence into their jobs at a rapid rate over the past few years. Around 12% of employed adults now say they use AI every day at work, according to a Gallup Workforce survey conducted this fall among more than 22,000 U.S. workers. The survey found that nearly one-quarter of workers use AI frequently—defined as several times a week—while close to half reported using it at least a few times per year. This marks a sharp rise from 2023, when only 21% said they used AI occasionally. The increase…
