GitLab and executives including CEO Sytse Sijbrandij and CFO Brian Robins face a securities suit filed September 9, 2024 and amended February 5, 2025, plus derivative suits filed February 14 and 19, 2025. The complaints allege they overstated demand for GitLab's Duo AI features while backing a 53 percent Premium price increase.
US District Judge Jed Rakoff on Thursday refused to dismiss The Intercept's claim that OpenAI removed copyright management information from its articles used to train ChatGPT. That puts him at odds with another Manhattan judge, who tossed a similar suit from Raw Story and AlterNet. He did dismiss the claim that OpenAI distributed the stripped articles, along with the claims against Microsoft.
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing'Oei posted an AI-generated video on his official X account. Styled as a CNN broadcast, it showed Fareed Zakaria praising Kenya's peace diplomacy in Sudan, and he captioned it as a rebuke to 'fake analysts'. He deleted it after ridicule on X, by which point it had over 60,000 views.
An institutional shareholder filed a securities class action on February 19, 2025 against The Trade Desk and two executives. The suit alleges they hid execution problems in rolling out Kokai, the company's AI forecasting tool. The complaint says shares fell more than 32% after the company said on February 12 that 'Kokai rolled out slower than we anticipated.'
Global Witness set up fresh accounts showing equal interest in Germany's four major parties. It found that 78% of political content TikTok recommended from unfollowed accounts supported the far-right AfD, against 64% on X. TikTok said the methodology did not reflect other users' experience and that it favours no party; X did not respond.
Police in Shangri-La, Diqing, say two local internet users filmed the city's No. 1 and No. 3 middle schools and added AI fire effects to the footage. They posted it with a caption boasting of burning down No. 1 to get attention. Police say it caused unnecessary panic, ordered the posts deleted and are investigating further.
Undercover reporters from Daily Economic News found black-market sellers offering real-time AI face swaps of celebrities such as Yang Mi and Liu Yifei for 1,280 yuan, and voice cloning too. Sellers said the swaps pass undetected in WeChat and Douyin video calls and live streams. Douyin says such goods are banned; experts say real-time interception is currently hard.
