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AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks.

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit filed by music rights group GEMA.The Munich Regional Court found that the US company had used copyrighted song lyrics to train its ChatGPT language generator without a licence.GEMA sued the artificial intelligence company specifically over the use of nine well-known songs, including Helene Fischer's "Atemlos durch die Nacht" and Herbert Grönemeyer's "Männer."The court ordered OpenAI to refrain from storing the lyrics and outputting them in its models, to pay damages, and to disclose information about the use of the songs and the income generated from them. The ruling is not yet final and is likely to be appealed.

Parents would be able to block their children from having conversations with certain A.I. characters, and Instagram would send them summaries of their children’s chats, the company said. Instagram would also limit chatbot conversations on topics like self-harm, eating disorders and romance, while allowing “age-appropriate topics” like education, sports and hobbies.

Is it a matter of refusing to accept his tragic loss? Is he trying to pick up where his late wife left off in selling body butter, hair formula, and makeup on her personal website?

PMC said about 20% of Google search results that link to a PMC site include AI overviews and it expects that percentage to increase. The lawsuit also said PMC's affiliate revenue has declined by more than a third by the end of 2024 compared to its peak, citing search traffic declines.

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model.

An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help users argue that Black people are “dumber than white people.”