Meta and Hollywood Giants Sue AI Firms

Meta is taking legal action against a company accused of flooding its platforms with ads for non-consensual AI-generated nudity, while Disney and Universal have launched a separate lawsuit claiming one of the world’s most popular image-generating tools is built on stolen intellectual property. Meta Targets CrushAI in Major Legal Push Meta has filed a lawsuit…

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Pollinger’s Productivity : June 2025

WhatsApp Finally Comes To Ipad After years of user requests, WhatsApp has officially launched an iPad app. It syncs seamlessly with your phone and supports all the usual features, including voice notes, calls and media sharing. Insights: It’s taken long enough but great that we finally have WhatsApp on iPad. Now if only Instagram could follow suit…

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Grok Blocked : Quarter Of EU Firms Ban Access

New research shows that one in four European organisations have banned Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot due to concerns over misinformation, data privacy and reputational risk, making it far more widely rejected than rival tools like ChatGPT or Gemini. A Trust Gap Is Emerging in the AI Race The findings from cybersecurity firm Netskope point…

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OpenAI New ‘Super Campus’ Could Be Bigger Than Monaco

The AI giant is reportedly backing a 5-gigawatt data centre in Abu Dhabi, a facility so vast, it would dwarf Monaco and could reshape global AI infrastructure. A Bold Expansion Into the Gulf OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is reportedly helping to develop one of the largest AI data centre campuses on the planet, a…

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Pollinger’s Productivity : May 2025

Edits – a New Powerful Standalone Video Editor Instagram has released a new standalone video editing app called Edits, designed to give creators professional-level tools in an easy-to-use format. Edits offers an improved camera, advanced editing options, AI-powered animations, generative captions, and a variety of overlays including sound effects, filters, and stickers. Once complete, you…

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OpenAI Wants To Buy Chrome

OpenAI has declared its interest in buying Google Chrome (if Alphabet is forced to sell it following an antitrust ruling against the tech giant), raising major questions about the future of internet browsing, AI, and search. OpenAI’s Interest Made Clear During Antitrust Testimony Speaking during a landmark antitrust trial in Washington DC, OpenAI’s Head of…

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Backlash Over New WhatsApp AI Intrusion

WhatsApp users are pushing back against the forced rollout of Meta’s new AI chatbot, which appears in the app without warning and offers no option to disable it. Forced AI Integration Leaves Users Fuming Meta AI, a chatbot integrated into WhatsApp, is being promoted as a virtual assistant that can answer questions and spark ideas,…

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ChatGPT’s False Murder Claim

In this week’s featured article, we look at how a false murder claim by ChatGPT has fuelled fresh concerns over AI accuracy and hallucinations. A Father Falsely Accused by AI In quite a shocking story, a Norwegian man has filed a formal complaint after ChatGPT falsely claimed he murdered two of his sons! The case,…

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Alexa Voice Recordings Being Sent To Amazon

From March 28, a change to a long-standing Amazon Echo privacy feature will mean that every Alexa request will be transmitted to Amazon’s cloud by default, rather than being processed locally on the device. What’s Changing? For years, Amazon Echo users had the option to keep some of their voice interactions with Alexa private. For…

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“OpenAI To Charge $20,000 a Month for PhD-Level AI Agents”

According to a report by The Information, OpenAI is gearing up to introduce a new wave of specialised ‘AI agents’, with some of its most advanced offerings set to cost as much as $20,000 per month. New Revenue Stream For OpenAI With AI development costs rising fast, OpenAI reportedly lost around $5 billion last year due…

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