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🎬 Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney
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- Disney and Universal Pictures are suing Midjourney, alleging its AI image generator committed mass copyright infringement by training on their most recognizable characters.
- Midjourney's founder admitted to building its training data by scraping internet images without artist permission, a practice central to the studios' infringement claims.
- The lawsuit seeks an injunction and damages, accusing the AI company of refusing to stop misuse and instead releasing models creating even more detailed character recreations.
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📈 Musk's X ad threat appears to be working
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- Verizon reportedly started advertising on X again, pledging at least $10 million this year, after the social network threatened the telecommunications firm with a lawsuit.
- At least six businesses, including fashion company Ralph Lauren, have struck new ad deals with X following similar lawsuit threats or other reported pressure tactics.
- X's strategy of threatening to add entities to an existing lawsuit over an alleged illegal boycott has successfully secured ad-spending commitments from several brands.
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💥 Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor backlash
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- Wikipedia's parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, halted its AI summary experiment after a swift and overwhelmingly negative reaction from volunteer editors.
- Editors expressed strong concerns that these machine-generated summaries would damage Wikipedia's reputation as a trustworthy information source and devalue its human-curated content.
- The community also feared that prominent AI summaries, lacking human oversight, could introduce NPOV issues and undermine Wikipedia's collaborative editing model.
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⚖️ Meta sues app-maker as part of crack down on 'nudifying'
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- Meta is suing the firm behind CrushAI apps because it ran ads on Facebook and Instagram for services using AI to create non-consensual fake images.
- For its wider crackdown, Meta also started sharing over 3,800 unique URLs from "nudify" apps with other tech companies since the end of March.
- The company additionally developed new technology to spot ads for these "nudify" apps, even when such promotions try to evade rules by avoiding explicit content.
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🛡️ Interpol dismantles 20,000 malware domains, 32 arrests
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- Interpol's Operation Secure, involving 26 countries, dismantled over 20,000 malicious IP addresses and domains linked to information-stealing malware between January and April 2025.
- This global sweep arrested 32 people for illegal cyber activities, also confiscating 41 servers and more than 100GB of data.
- These takedowns targeted infostealer malware, with 79% of suspicious IP addresses removed and over 216,000 potentially affected individuals alerted to security risks.
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