The trade organization argued in its first such missive to a major AI company that copyright infringement was “a feature, not a bug” of the video generator. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter ...

Netflix threatened ByteDance with “immediate litigation” on Tuesday, joining three other studios that have condemned the company for enabling copyright infringement via its Seedance 2.0 AI service.

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter over its new Seedance 2.0 generative AI video tool on Friday, claiming the Chinese owner of TikTok infringed on its creative property to train the new ...

ByteDance has released Doubao-Seed-2.0, the latest version of its Doubao large language model series. The company said the Pro variant is benchmarked against GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro and is designed ...

The Motion Picture Association on Thursday denounced the newest AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, saying it had unleashed a flood of copyright infringement in the day since it became available. “In a ...

Seedance 2.0, a next-generation multi-modal AI video generation model, has opened access to beta users, promising cinematic-quality, 1080p AI videos powered by advanced motion synthesis and natural ...

What just happened? The Linux kernel is once again approaching a new numeric milestone, though as Linus Torvalds would remind observers, the version number is mostly symbolic. The long-running ...

Macworld reports that iPhone users are experiencing significant problems with iOS 26.2.1, including app crashes, device freezes, and severe battery drain issues. Multiple forum threads on Apple ...

Apple released iOS 26.2.1 primarily to support new 2nd generation AirTags with enhanced Precision Finding capabilities. Macworld reports that users must install this update to access full AirTag ...

Despite OpenAI's bold claims of widespread improvements, GPT-5.2 feels largely the same as the model it replaces. Google, meanwhile, delivers a more substantial Gemini 3 update. I’ve been writing ...

Inflation in November fell to 2.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday, a positive sign for consumers on its face. However, November’s data was collected later than normal. The released ...

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