World News

The Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures, a subsidiary of Aniplex and part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, has always been an unrelenting source of content particularly appreciated by nerdy audiences. It reached the pinnacle of fame in 2022 with the release of one of the most eagerly awaited fan productions, the o...

Training today's most popular AI models requires massive amounts of content to be “fed” to the subject under development. Countless images, texts and data are collected daily from the most disparate sources, without any kind of prior authorization, so that they can be provided to AI models as valuable resources, ri...

Crunchyroll, one of the world's most widely used streaming services for animation content, recently came under the spotlight for a rather serious oversight. The platform, which specializes in material from East Asia, including anime and TV series, is part of the Sony Corporation and has its roots in the USA, but it has...

The corruption of artificial intelligence within the music industry began in 2023, with the release of “Heart on My Sleeve,” a particularly compelling duet between Drake and The Weeknd, although, never written, produced or created by the artists mentioned. The song immediately went viral, even before the public cou...

Today's featured article is a short text contained within the Techscape newsletter, compiled by The Guardian. It can be viewed via the link below, and is located first within the three articles presented by the media outlet in question. On June 13, 2025, a little over a month ago, the conflict between Israel and Iran ...

A team of researchers from the Laboratory of Causal Cognition at the University of London recently initiated a rather curious project concerning the relationship between Large Language Models (by the acronym LLMs) and a tendency in human behavior known as the “omission bias.” The latter describes man's frequent pre...

According to a court document filed in late June 2025 and drafted by an FBI special agent, a 37-year-old Ohio man allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate deepfake pornographic content depicting at least 10 people, the subjects of his obsession. James Strahler II, the criminal in question, was then arrested f...

The role that artificial intelligence plays within most people's daily lives is, fortunately, still marginal, controllable. However, not all users of the vast world of the Internet experience a similar relationship with this technology: some are now, in 2025, in a state of true addiction to chatbots. Following the wor...

The UK's competition regulator, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA), recently obtained new decision-making powers and promptly applied them in an in-depth investigation concerning Internet giant Google and its undoubted dominance over search within the vast online world. According to what was discovered through ...

Technology surrounds us. It has made its way into the daily lives of the vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet, intensifying its presence from year to year, decade to decade. Between phones, computers and other similar personal devices, owning countless electronic devices has become the norm, something fundam...

Innovation inevitably brings risks of a rather substantial nature. Progress has always stepped on some toes, and it will do so again in the future, but it is critical to emphasize the difference between choices made for the greater good and decisions made to satisfy the desires of the wealthiest. Where the demolition o...

An analysis recently conducted by research teams from Stanford, Cornell and WVU, three world-renowned U.S. universities, highlighted a number of somewhat token questions regarding the relationship between artificial intelligence models and copyright. In recent times, the unauthorized use of copyrighted books and novels...

At a time when information is no longer trustworthy, how can humans stay updated on what is happening in the world? The era of fake news has started for years now, several steps have been taken to succeed in dealing with this continuous spread of misinformation, however, it seems to have recently gained a successor tha...

Who would have thought that the almost “people-pleaser” nature instilled within the most popular chatbots in the tech world would lead them to dig their own grave? The current situation of these services is characterized by a clear need to appear useful, necessary, as serviceable as possible, always trying to offer...

“Be curious about artificial intelligence!” Reads a memo recently shared by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to the company's employees. Accompanying this suggestion, the man also points out that as a result of the implementation of this technology, the company's workforce will undergo a significant reduction in the years to ...

During January 2025, following the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to remove the fact-checking system (checking the veracity of shared information), from company-owned platforms. Following this change, accompanied by other changes to Meta's policy, a campaign was called to s...