OpenAI has signed its first major licensing deal to bring well-known characters to life on its Sora video generator. The company said the agreement with Walt Disney was part of a push to ensure creators’ rights in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) space amid growing concerns over copyright, fakes, and misinformation. It forms part of a…
The US Department of Defence has launched GenAI.mil, a new AI platform powered by Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, to equip nearly 3 million personnel with advanced capabilities. This initiative aims for AI technological superiority. enabling tasks like policy summarisation and risk assessment. The platform ensures secure, unclassified use, with Google guaranteeing data won’t train…
AFP via Getty Images Drug crime has skyrocketed in Marseille, France’s second-largest city Warning: This article contains disturbing details from the start. A group of children spotted Adel’s body on their way to school, just as his parents were heading to the police station to report him missing. Adel’s body, a grotesque, charred silhouette, lay…
The government of Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov has resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital, Sofia, on Wednesday night. Zhelyazkov’s dramatic move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in parliament and 20 days before Bulgaria joins the euro. Protesters had…
The government has denied claims from Argentina’s president that the two countries are in talks about lifting an arms export ban that has been in place since the Falklands War. A spokesman said there are “no specific talks” taking place, after Javier Milei told The Daily Telegraph negotiations with Britain were under way to lift…
Next week’s strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal. The doctors’ union has agreed to put the offer to members over the coming days – if they support it, the five-day walkout starting on Wednesday 17 December could be called off. The offer…
Leon has announced it will close several of its restaurants and cut jobs as part of a major restructure of the High Street food chain. The company has appointed Quantuma as administrators after Leon’s original co-founder, John Vincent, reacquired the company last month from Asda. The move places the future of the worst-performing of its…
