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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Forces Copyright Reckoning as AI Video Quality Leaps Forward ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model, launched February 12, has created cinematic videos of celebrities in absurd situations that have gone viral online, with the new model being among the
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, launched this week as one of the most sophisticated AI video generation models to date, has triggered fierce resistance from Hollywood studios and creators who say the tool enables "blatant" copyright infringement. The model generates 15-second videos from text prompts
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Top Story Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Raises $1 Billion for Spatial Intelligence Revolution World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding from investors including AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Sea.
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Top Story The "AI Scare Trade" reached a crescendo yesterday as global markets witnessed what analysts called a "violent rotation of capital" away from service-oriented sectors including wealth management, financial services, and real estate. The catalyst was a convergence of technological breakthroughs, specifically the launch of
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Top Story Infosys and Anthropic Partner to Build Enterprise AI Agents with Claude Models Indian IT services company Infosys has announced a partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents using Claude models. The collaboration targets enterprise customers looking to deploy sophisticated AI agents across their operations,
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator has triggered a major legal confrontation with Hollywood, as studios and trade groups accuse the Chinese company of "blatant" copyright infringement just days after its launch. The Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin demanded ByteDance "immediately
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Top Story The India AI Impact Summit 2026 opens today at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, running through February 20 and representing a shift from safety-focused summits to discussions on tangible AI impact, implementation, and governance. The five-day event draws delegations from over 100 countries, including 15-20 heads of government,
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Top Story Chinese Tech Giants Challenge Western AI Dominance with New Model Releases China's biggest tech companies have launched advanced AI models this week that underscore how Chinese firms are keeping pace with U.S. rivals. Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveiled RynnBrain, an AI model designed to
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Top Story Anthropic closed a massive $30 billion Series G funding round on February 12, valuing the AI company at $380 billion post-money. The round was led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. The company is building momentum from
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Top Story ** Perplexity launched Model Council, a multi-model research feature that brings several AI models together for one answer. Instead of verifying queries across multiple models manually, Model Council allows users to run the same query across several models at once. When users select Model Council in the main Perplexity
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Top Story Microsoft Pioneers Superconducting Data Center Infrastructure Microsoft wants to explore high-temperature superconductors to reduce the massive energy demands of its AI data centers. Superconductors could help tame AI's massive appetite for power, offering a leaner way to run data centers. Microsoft is exploring using superconducting power
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Top Story Skild AI, a fast-rising robotics software startup, has secured $1.4 billion in Series C funding to develop its "Skild Brain" platform - a general-purpose AI that helps robots learn and execute tasks across industries. The SoftBank-led investment reflects a major bet on "physical AI&