ByteDance Says It Will Add Guardrails After Studios Complain About IP Violations

Last week, ByteDance introduced its Seedance 2.0 model. Hollywood and major studios quickly complained over AI’s use of celebrity likenesses.

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills

OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

SaaSpocalypse Now: Claude’s 11 Plugins Triggered A $285B Wipeout

Agentic AI is turning SaaS into a commodity. Here’s how Claude-style enterprise agents triggered the “Saaspocalypse” and what it means for software, jobs and investors.

World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. 

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses

The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI

The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.

Corporate America Is Rethinking AI Workforce Needs, Led By IBM

IBM triples entry-level hiring, recognizing AI can’t replace junior talent. Smart companies are redesigning jobs instead of eliminating them.