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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds
2025-11-06 CNN
According to a recent report compiled by 160 scientists from around the world, planet Earth has recently entered what we might call “a new reality”. Although this may sound positive, like the promise of a new beginning, the current environmental situation is disastrous, if not terrifying.We are facing the first in ...
Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI
2025-11-05 Techcrunch
Deloitte, the British multinational specialising in consulting and auditing services, recently announced an agreement to be considered “historic” in the field of artificial intelligence. The company, part of the Big Four and known as the world's largest professional services network in terms of revenue and number o...
Google to invest $15bn to build AI data hub in India
2025-11-04 BBC
The state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India will soon become the site of the next data centre dedicated to artificial intelligence, as Google's parent company, Alphabet, will invest £10 billion to build the facility. The port city of Visakhapatnam will host the latter and become an integral part of Google's global n...
OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content
2025-11-03 The Guardian
Recently, artificial intelligence giant OpenAI announced the addition of a new feature to ChatGPT, one of the most popular and widely used chatbots in the world today. The new version of the latter will be based on a principle recently introduced by the company, encapsulated in the slogan “treat adult users like adul...
Japan asks OpenAI not to infringe on 'irreplaceable' manga and anime content
2025-10-31 Engadget
While the rest of the world often considers manga and anime to be mere cartoons and comics, content exclusively for children and “nerds” who are passionate about the genre, in Japan the situation is quite different. What is often dismissed outside Japan as a childish passion is, within Japan, considered one of the ...
Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says.
2025-10-30 The Guardian
According to a recent report by the British Standards Institution (BSI), the leading British standards organisation and a member of the International Organisation for Standardisation, those belonging to Generation Z (1997–2012) are currently facing a veritable “job apocalypse”. The vast majority of companies in 2...
Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad,
2025-10-29 BBC
Zelda Williams, daughter of the famous actor Robin Williams, recently found herself in a rather unpleasant situation. Her father sadly passed away in 2014, following several difficult years with his physical and mental health. However, this man's impact on the entertainment world has never been forgotten; his roles are...
One of AI’s Founding Fathers Thinks It Could Kill Us All
2025-10-28 Motherboard - Vice
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Yoshua Bengio, known as the ‘Grandfather of Artificial Intelligence’ thanks to his contribution to the creation of this technology, stated that it could soon become what kills us all. The continuous and unstoppable development of this controversial resource is rap...
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
2025-10-27 404 Media
What happens within the legal sector tends to be understood in its entirety by those directly involved, avoiding the disclosure of potentially sensitive information to the general public. However, since the advent of artificial intelligence, several lawyers have begun to turn to this technology, framing it as a useful ...
Pope Leo Said No to That Nightmarish AI Pope Idea
2025-10-24 Vice
Pope Leo XIV has declared that there will be no AI Pope as long as he is around. It's not a sentence we ever imagined we would write, or, frankly, read. There is no need to further reiterate the worrying spread of artificial intelligence, but its possible and presumed implementation within the religious sphere, especia...
What's the big deal about AI data centres?
2025-10-23 BBC
One of the most discussed topics in recent times concerns precisely the rapid and frightening growth in demand for data centers to maintain and support the various artificial intelligence systems that already exist and those that are yet to come. This technology is sadly unstoppable at the moment; rather, it seems to b...
Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem
2025-10-22 The Verge
With the worrying spread of artificial intelligence within the artistic and creative sector, several platforms have been taken over byartificially generated material, much to the disappointment of users. Pinterest, Facebook, and TikTok are just three of the most affected apps, whose “human” content seems to be beco...
Instagram still poses risk to children despite new safety tools, says Meta whistleblower
2025-10-21 The Guardian
According to recent research conducted by Arturo Béjar, former senior engineer at Meta and current whistleblower, despite the much-touted new security tools implemented within Instagram, both children and teenagers are still extremely at risk when using the platform in question. In 2024, the company introduced “teen...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
2025-10-20 404Media
Recently, the independent news outlet 404 Media, owner of today's featured article and several other texts shared in the past, filed a lawsuit against the US federal agency ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
ICE is responsible for border security and immigration cont...
UNC1549 Hacks 34 Devices in 11 Telecom Firms via LinkedIn Job Lures and MINIBIKE Malware
2025-10-17 The Hacker News
Browsing LinkedIn and agreeing to potential job interviews currently poses a tangible risk; the well-known platform has recently been the target of a series of hacker attacks carried out through the normal process required for hiring a new employee.
According to reports, an Iranian hacker group known as UNC1549 is bel...
Memes and nihilistic in-jokes: the online world of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer
2025-10-16 The Guardian
The article we are presenting today is not news in the strict sense of the term, but rather an in-depth digression on the relationship between the online environment (including memes, social media, and “online culture”) and the current state of violence as a political tool.
On September 10, 2025, US political acti...