Kategorie: Artificial Intelligence

The legal battle between Midjourney and the Hollywood studios Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery has evolved into far more than a conventional copyright dispute. While the studios accuse the AI company of using copyrighted characters and creative works to train its image generation models without permission, Midjourney has launched an unexpected counterstrategy: it wants the studios to reveal how they use artificial intelligence themselves.

Microsoft is reportedly evaluating whether DeepSeek could become part of Copilot Cowork. At first glance, this may look like a technical model-selection decision. In reality, it reflects something much bigger: the economics of AI agents, Microsoft's dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic, growing pressure from lower-cost Chinese models, and the question of how much geopolitical risk businesses are willing to accept in exchange for cheaper AI.

With Scout, Microsoft is taking its AI strategy a significant step further. Until now, Copilot has largely functioned as an assistant: answering questions, summarising documents, drafting content and helping users complete tasks. Scout, by contrast, is designed not merely to respond but to work in the background. Microsoft describes this new category of systems as “Autopilots” – always-on agents capable of identifying, prioritising and carrying out tasks without requiring constant instructions.

While many countries are still debating whether students should be allowed to use ChatGPT in the classroom, Estonia has chosen a far more ambitious path. Through AI Leap, the Baltic nation is...

Malta is taking a step that no other country has attempted on this scale so far: the government plans to offer citizens and registered residents a free one-year subscription to ChatGPT Plus. The only requirement is the completion of a short online course in AI literacy. Once completed, participants receive access to a premium AI service that would normally require a monthly subscription.

While many AI companies mainly talk about benchmarks, model sizes and chatbots, is pursuing a far more radical approach: the startup Andon Labs is deploying AI agents into real economic environments with real budgets, real people, real contracts and real consequences.

It sounds like an internet joke, but it was a real issue: in newer versions of ChatGPT, references to goblins, gremlins and similar fantasy creatures began appearing with unusual frequency – even in entirely serious contexts. What initially looked like a quirky glitch turned out, on closer inspection, to be a revealing case study in how modern AI systems behave.

As agentic AI systems become more capable, a subtle but important shift is taking place. The focus is moving away from the model itself and towards the environment in which it operates....