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Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince sees trouble ahead for the open web

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Wait a minute! Researchers say AI's "chains of thought" are not signs of human-like reasoning

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US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works

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Disney and Universal have filed a joint lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney for allegedly creating unauthorized images of characters like Darth Vader and the Minions. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in California, accuses Midjourney of repeatedly copying copyrighted material despite previous requests from the studios to stop. Both companies are seeking damages, a jury trial, and an order to prevent future use of protected characters. Reported cases of such copyright issues date back to 2023. Midjourney has not responded publicly.

"Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism."

From the complaint

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Google's Veo 3 video generator now includes a faster option, Veo 3 Fast, which more than doubles the speed of the previous model at 720p resolution, according to Google's Josh Woodward. The update is already available in both the Gemini app and Flow. For Gemini Pro users, the daily limit has increased to three new video generations—up from the earlier single ten-credit pack—while Flow Pro users are charged 20 credits per video. Gemini and Flow Ultra subscribers continue to receive higher quality and more generations on their existing plans. Google is testing additional features like picture-to-video with voice input. The company also plans to expand Veo 3 Fast to more countries and make it available for Workspace accounts.

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OpenAI has lowered the price of its o3 language model by 80 percent, CEO Sam Altman said. The new cost is $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens. The move follows Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro pricing, which ranges from $1.25 to $2.50 for input and $10 to $15 for output, depending on token length. Until now, Gemini had been much cheaper than o3 at similar performance. Altman also introduced a higher-tier o3-pro model and said users would be "happy" with the pricing given its performance. OpenAI said that the stronger o3-pro model is launching today.

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OpenAI launches new ChatGPT agent that automates complex tasks for Pro, Plus, and Team

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Kimi-K2 is the next open-weight AI milestone from China after Deepseek

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New Energy-Based Transformer architecture aims to bring better "System 2 thinking" to AI models

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