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The BBC is threatening legal action against US AI startup Perplexity over the alleged unauthorized use of BBC content to train its AI systems. In a letter seen by the Financial Times, the BBC demanded that Perplexity immediately stop scraping its content, delete stored BBC material, and provide financial compensation. The broadcaster says Perplexity copied content verbatim, undermined BBC's own services, and used BBC material to train its standard AI model, Sonar. An internal BBC analysis found that 17 percent of answers generated by Perplexity's chatbot contained significant errors. Perplexity denies the allegations, but the company is already facing lawsuits from other media organizations and is in licensing negotiations with selected publishers.

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Resemble AI has released Chatterbox, a free open-source voice cloning model that runs locally and supports emotional tone control like "dramatic" or "monotone." It clones voices using just a few seconds of audio and responds in under 200 milliseconds. The tool works on Windows, Mac, and Linux with 5–6 GB of video memory. All generated speech includes a faint watermark, "PerTh," to identify it as AI-made. According to Resemble AI, it performed better than ElevenLabs in blind tests. Currently, it only supports English.

Decoder EN demo (heightened emotional expression)

Chatterbox is licensed under MIT and targets developers. Check out the demo here.

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A new website called "The OpenAI Files" launched on June 18, 2025, compiles internal documents and criticism of OpenAI's leadership, strategy, and corporate culture. It raises concerns about whether the company is moving away from its original non-profit goals to serve investor interests. The platform includes reports from former staff, analyses of restructuring plans, and scrutiny of CEO Sam Altman's role. The groups Tech Oversight and The Midas Project of the site say the goal is to spark public discussion about transparency, safety, and oversight in OpenAI's development of powerful AI systems.

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