Disney Will Build Private AI Models of Its Characters With Adobe After the Sora Deal Died
Adobe becomes Disney's Official AI Innovation Partner and will build private Firefly Foundry models trained on Disney properties, months after Disney's $1 billion OpenAI bet collapsed, Variety reported.
METR Says Anthropic Is Likely Improving AI Twice as Fast but Redacted Key Evidence
An outside evaluator says Anthropic is likely improving its models about twice as fast as before, mostly thanks to AI itself, but admits Anthropic redacted most of the evidence behind that call.
Instagram Takes Its AI Age Checks Worldwide to Catch Teens Who Faked Adult Birthdays
Meta says its AI age-estimation tech is going global on Instagram and will push millions more teens who claimed to be adults into locked-down Teen Accounts. It has not said how often the system guesses w
Claude Code Convenience Button Left 1,379 Secrets in Public GitHub Repos, Apiiro Says
Apiiro says Claude Code's "Yes, and don't ask again" option saved passwords and keys into a settings file now sitting in 1,122 public GitHub copies. Anthropic's Boris Cherny says the team is looking into
Trump Tells 60 Minutes He Does Not Mind AI Guardrails, With a China Catch
Days after a midterm drubbing, Trump told CBS 60 Minutes that AI risk can be managed and that he does not mind guardrails, as long as they do not leave the US in a deep second position behind China.
Meta Indefinitely Pauses Terms That Would Have Let It Scrape Business Sites for AI
Facing court orders in Brazil and Norway, a UK competition probe and angry publishers, Meta has shelved its new business terms that would have let it crawl linked websites for AI. Meta says its existing
