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ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 ahead of global rollout

Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm that drew cease-and-desist letters from six major Hollywood studios, a formal denunciation from the Motion Picture Association, and a pointed rebuke from SAG-AFTRA over the unauthorised use of its members’ likenesses. Rhett Reese, the screenwriter behind the Deadpool films, watched the clip and offered a blunt assessment of the technology’s implications for his profession.

OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors

There is a number that keeps getting larger, and on Tuesday it got larger again. OpenAI announced that it had closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion post-money. The figure is up from the $110 billion the company announced in February, when Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank each committed tens of billions to anchor what was already the largest private funding round in history.

Art schools are being torn apart by AI

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The Galaxy S26’s photo app can sloppify your memories

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You can now use ChatGPT with Apple’s CarPlay

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Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded

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