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Pulitzer Prize winner John Carreyrou and other authors are suing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity for book piracy. The AI companies allegedly stole their works from illegal online libraries. The lawsuit has a strong case, and this time the plaintiffs are going after the big bucks instead of the "pennies" of a class action settlement.

OpenAI is exploring ways to weave sponsored content directly into ChatGPT responses, despite CEO Sam Altman once calling ad-influenced AI a dystopian future.

The Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud has released two new AI models that create or clone voices using text commands.

Qwen's updated image editing model better preserves facial identity when editing portraits and group photos, with improvements to lighting control and camera angles.

Zhipu AI has introduced GLM-4.7, a new model specialized in autonomous programming that uses "Preserved Thinking" to retain reasoning across long conversations.