The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have announced a major multi-year licensing agreement that will bring more than 200 characters and visual elements from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars into Sora, OpenAI’s generative video platform.

Applications are now open for the 2026 Ethics and Technology Practitioner Fellowship.

The Knight Center is launching two free online courses for journalists this month, focusing on climate crisis reporting and artificial intelligence tools in newsrooms.

Today is both World News Day and the International Day for Universal Access to Information.

Constellation has opened applications for the Astra Fellowship, its flagship program designed to accelerate research and talent development in AI safety.

AI-generated output is so convincing today and shaping so much of the information we consume that we risk being unable to trust anything anymore.

PayPal and Venmo users now have the chance to try out some of the most advanced AI tools available, completely free of charge.

Google released 25 ultra-short training videos that teach you to use Gemini, NotebookLM and other AI tools in under 10 minutes each.

The World’s First Humanoid Robot Games wrapped up with a spectacular finale in Beijing, where over the course of three days, more than 500 robots from 16 countries competed for medals in 26 disciplines.

This summer, Switzerland made a crucial step in enhancing the digital privacy of its citizens, enacting the strictest rules so far regarding the processing of biometric data.

Applications for the fall cohort of the prestigious “Ethics, Technology, and Public Policy for Practitioners” program, organized by Stanford University, are open until August 24, 2025, for participants from around the world.

Building an AI agent doesn’t have to mean wrestling with GPUs or spending days setting up a local environment.

This summer, Perplexity AI introduced Comet, an AI-powered browser built on Chromium architecture, meaning it supports Chrome extensions and allows for an easy transition from other browsers, including importing bookmarks, passwords, and settings.

OpenAI has officially introduced GPT-5, the latest version of its language model used in ChatGPT and across a range of AI-powered tools.

The third annual aiEDU Trailblazer Fellowship is now accepting applications from U.S.-based K–12 classroom teachers.

The Pulitzer Center has opened its global call for applications for the next cohort of AI Accountability Fellows, a ten-month fellowship designed to support in-depth journalism on the real-world consequences of artificial intelligence and automation.

AlgorithmWatch has launched an open call for its fifth cohort of Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellows, inviting journalists and researchers across Europe to apply.

The Association for Survey Computing (ASC) has opened a call for speakers for its upcoming one-day conference, to be held on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at The Oval in London.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has opened its call for submissions to the Emerging Trends in AI (ETA) Track at the upcoming AAAI-26 conference.

The European Commission has opened a call for applications to join the Advisory Forum under the EU AI Act. This new body will play a central role in shaping how the landmark regulation is implemented across the Union.

The Aspen Institute has launched the Technology Leaders Initiative, a two-year program for senior figures across the global technology ecosystem.

As hyper-realistic deepfake videos continue to spread online faster than they can be debunked, Denmark has decided it’s time to draw a line.

On August 2, 2025, new obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models begin to apply under the EU AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence.

Google has officially unveiled Gemini Apps, an innovative platform that enables developers and companies to create their own digital assistants with full access to Google services.

OpenAI has launched the ChatGPT Agent, its most advanced digital assistant to date, designed to serve as a universal helper capable of taking over and automating tasks for users.

Manus, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup developing autonomous AI agents, has raised $75 million in a new funding round led by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark.

Adobe has introduced the Firefly Video Model, an AI-powered tool that enables users to generate video clips from text prompts or images.

OpenAI has just launched Sora in the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Richard Foster-Fletcher's newsletter AI, Education & Future Work covers AI’s impact on jobs, leadership, and training, highlighting workforce supervision, automation risks, and education gaps.

The first-ever She Shapes AI Awards brought together innovators, thought leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers to recognize women at the forefront of artificial intelligence.

She Shapes AI Awards 2024/25 will take place on February 18, 2025, at UCL School of Management in London.

OpenAI has finalized its latest reasoning-focused AI model, o3 mini, and is gearing up for its official launch.

Microsoft has announced a major update to its 365 subscription plans for consumers, introducing artificial intelligence tools like Copilot and Microsoft Designer.

Microsoft has officially released its Phi-4 language model on the popular Hugging Face platform,

Australia has become the first country to ban children under the age of 16 from accessing social media platforms.

In a year dominated by talk of transformative technologies, generative AI remains a centerpiece of executive strategy.

You’re streaming your favorite song, feeling the rhythm and vocals, when a question creeps into your mind—was this track created by a human, or is it the product of an AI?

In a significant shift for the AI industry, OpenAI, the company behind groundbreaking AI models like ChatGPT, is restructuring from its nonprofit roots to a for-profit benefit corporation.

Many have argued that one of the most surreal moments in the world of tech demos this year occurred when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a conversation with an AI clone of content creator Don Allen Stevenson III.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence research company, xAI, recently brought the supercomputer it calls "Colossus" online.

This agreement, known as the AI Convention, was developed under the leadership of the Council of Europe. It establishes a global framework for AI regulation.

A new algorithm is set to revolutionize the way robots work with humans by making them more aware of human inattentiveness.

Two innovative AI systems are using video and photos to create virtual simulations that train robots to function in real-world environments.

As AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity become more widely used, it's not far from reality that one of these names will become a verb—just like Google.

Meet Unitree G1: a humanoid robot redefining all your expectations of an autonomous machine.

Google rolls out its AI-enabled Search feature, AI Overview, to six additional countries: India, the UK, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil.

Grok-2 is one of the advanced models that both generate text and visual content. This model could answer user prompts with images.

Google is a few months early this year from its traditional release schedule in the fall and has now announced its new series of Pixel 9, hoping to nail a more competitive smartphone marketplace.

"Deep-Live-Cam" is an open-source software project that enables a real-time face swap in video contents using just a single image.

Anysphere, the AI startup working on improving productivity through code, has successfully raised more than $60 million in a Series A funding round.