From'Icarus bug' to flawed panels: Airbus counts cost of relying on single model PARIS - This week, Airbus got a brutal reminder that even the world's most-delivered jet -- the A320 -- isn't immune to shocks as disparate as solar flares and flawed metal. Days after recalling 6,000 A320-series planes over a software glitch linked to cosmic radiation, the European giant was forced to slash delivery targets when defects surfaced in some of their fuselage panels. The twin setbacks -- one rooted in astrophysics, the other in basic metallurgy -- underscore how fragile success can be for a planemaker that dominates the busiest corner of aviation and is on track to outpace Boeing for a seventh straight year. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

A Canadian politician was arrested this week after she claimed a threatening voicemail she allegedly sent to a fellow politician was AI-generated.

Buying Warner Bros. Gives Netflix What It's Always Needed: An Identity The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century's worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to . It also ends the streaming wars. In a deal to acquire Warner Bros. announced Friday, Netflix will be scooping up HBO's many titles, including Courtesy of HBO Close your eyes, think for a minute, and tell me: What is a Netflix Movie? OK, try again: What is a Netflix Show? Sure, it's easy to rattle off some killer titles--, --but Netflix has never really had a brand identity.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman scrambles to boost ChatGPT's quality and first lady Melania Trump rolls out an AI-powered Spanish translation of her memoir.

An investigation found that real video of medical professionals is being manipulated using AI. An investigation found that real video of medical professionals is being manipulated using AI. TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors and influencers directing viewers to Wellness Nest, a US-based supplements firm. All the deepfakes involve real footage of a health expert taken from the internet.

The FBI warns holiday shoppers about cybercriminals targeting Gmail and Outlook inboxes with scams that cost Americans over $785 million annually.

The Netflix and Warner Bros. deal might be great for shareholders, but not for anyone else Hollywood does not need more consolidation. Netflix's $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. is, in many ways, the last thing a weakened Hollywood needs right now. The industry is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, where theaters were forced to close and audiences became even more comfortable with streaming films at home . The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, which were driven by legitimate concerns around studio interest in generative AI, delayed production and promotion of many film and TV projects. And the rise of streaming content pushed many media companies towards taking on debt and unwise mergers (see: Warner Bros. Discovery), which led to higher subscription costs, layoffs and production belt-tightening.

New York Times newspaper office building is seen in Manhattan on 26 October 2022. New York Times newspaper office building is seen in Manhattan on 26 October 2022. The New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegally copying millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists' work without permission en masse. The Times said that Perplexity AI was also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup's generative AI products create fabricated content, or "hallucinations", and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks.

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Both publications claim the AI company scraped their works for LLM training and often reproduced their content verbatim. The said it had sent Perplexity several cease-and-desist demands to stop using its content until the two reached an agreement, but the AI company persisted in doing so. First, by scraping its website (including in real time) to train AI models and feed content into the likes of the Claude chatbot and Comet browser . The also says Perplexity damaged its brand by falsely attributing completely fabricated information (aka hallucinations) to the newspaper. The also filed a lawsuit against Perplexity for similar reasons.