Taboola’s clickbaity chumbox is evolving into an AI chatbot

DeeperDive will appear at the top of USA Today’s homepage. Taboola, the company best known for serving up those weird, clickbaity advertisements you often find beneath online articles, has created an AI chatbot. The tool, called “DeeperDive,” is launching in beta on USA Today and The Independent, and will answer readers’ questions using information “sourced…

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Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters

Disney and Universal sued Midjourney on Wednesday for generating Shrek, Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, and a host of other copyrighted characters in the first major legal showdown between Hollywood and generative AI. The complaint, filed in a US District Court in central California, calls Midjourney’s AI image generator a “virtual vending machine, generating endless unauthorized…

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A Steven Universe spinoff is in the works at Amazon

Though Steven Universe‘s time on Cartoon Network has come and gone, Amazon is stepping in to keep the story going. During a Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe panel at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar announced that Amazon is moving forward with a new spinoff series focused on side…

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