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18 stories in this desk · last updated Feb 25, 2026.
Anthropic accused three Chinese AI labs of large-scale distillation attacks on Claude, but the internet flipped the narrative into a debate about the industry's own data practices.
Sora now supports image-to-video with people under stated safeguards, prompting immediate policy and misuse questions.
Labeling and watermarking are moving forward, but trust still depends on distribution and verification behavior.
Current legal clashes suggest likeness rights, franchise reuse, and training provenance remain top pressure zones.
Axios reported an MPA cease-and-desist against Seedance 2.0, raising direct legal pressure on model deployment and distribution strategy.
A U.S. court order halted OpenAI’s use of the "Cameo" label for Sora’s character-consistency feature, adding naming risk to an already crowded launch cycle.
The Verge reported new Seedance guardrails after launch-week criticism, including tighter controls meant to reduce infringement risk.
TechCrunch reported rising studio and trade-group concern over Seedance 2.0, moving the story from launch buzz to rights risk.
Follow-up coverage indicates enforcement remains inconsistent as nudify-generation quality and distribution channels continue to improve.
h3h3 Productions and other creators sued Snap in the Central District of California, alleging the company used academic video datasets to train commercial AI features without permission.
A January WIRED investigation documented how nudify tooling is improving in quality and distribution while safeguards lag behind abuse patterns.
Caixin and Reuters reported that a record-setting settlement and surge of 2025 lawsuits have set the stage for court decisions that could redefine how copyright law applies to generative AI.
A wave of California AI laws including AB 621 (deepfake damages up to $250K), AB 2013 (training data transparency), and SB 942 (AI disclosure) went into effect alongside similar legislation in 37 other states.
IPWatchdog analysis identified three landmark rulings from 2025 on AI training and copyrighted content that will shape how courts treat video-generation cases next year.
John Carreyrou and fellow writers filed suit against six AI companies on December 22, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted works for model training.
Disney announced a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and a three-year licensing deal bringing Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to the Sora video generator.
The MPA called on OpenAI to take immediate action after copyrighted characters from member studios proliferated in Sora 2 outputs despite stated guardrails.
TikTok's December 4 community guidelines update expanded mandatory labeling for AI-generated content, introduced invisible watermarks via C2PA, and gave users controls to limit AI content in feeds.