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Being able to generate videos from short prompts in about a minute, OpenAI’s Sora 2 app quickly found success following its release this past September, reaching one million downloads in under 5 days according to Time Magazine. Despite the technology’s seemingly endless capabilities, the platform still laid down some ground rules–videos had a clear Sora 2 logo, consent was needed to make clips of living people, and prompts that were intentionally fraudulent, sexual, or violent would not be generated.

April 22, 2025 Allison Bennett

Spirited Away or Stolen Away? AI, Studio Ghibli, and the Battle for Copyrights/AI-Generated Ghibli Studios: Art at a Hidden Carbon Cost

A social media trend emulating the work of Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli began to go viral just days after OpenAI launched its most advanced AI image generator to date, highlighting both the technology’s capabilities and the copyright concerns that have been raised.

Sports Business and Culture Business

February 18, 2025 Samira Ali

AI at War: Chinese DeepSeek Competes Against American ChatGPT

On January 27, Wall Street was upended by an unprecedented event: Nvidia’s stock crashed by 17 percent, wiping out $589 billion in market value in a single day, the largest loss of a company in United States history. The catalyst behind the sudden crash was the announcement of DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that has developed a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model that is cheaper and more resource-efficient than its American counterpart, ChatGPT.

AI 2024 World International News

January 30, 2024 Neve Walker

54th World Economic Forum Tackles Climate Change, AI

The 54th annual World Economic Forum occurred in Davos, Switzerland from January 16-19, providing a forum that aimed to “provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency, and accountability,” the organizers said and as reported by Sustainable Tech Partner. The goal was also to rebuild trust, generate new ideas, and create partnerships to advance solutions to challenges the world faces.

September 2023 2023 AI Focus

September 25, 2023 Hamzah Khan

FOCUS on the Rise of AI: Climate Change

AI contributes to emissions in three ways: the burning carbon to build computer chips, the energy expended on training models, and electricity usage every time the product is used.