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Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic over 274 songs
The licensing platform Authentic Brands Group and its co-plaintiffs allege Anthropic trained Claude on the songs without permission and stripped songwriter credits.
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ASAP Rocky
ASAP Rocky accused of copying a 2019 parkour clip with AI
VFX artist Cache Bunny says a six-second stretch of the Shroom Clouds video matches footage published in 2019 with parkour athlete Jason Paul.
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Ghana's National Film Authority faces backlash over AI video
The breast cancer awareness video used real Ghanaian actors' voices but visuals made entirely with AI, and critics said it bypassed local production crews.
Swedesboro Brewing Company
Swedesboro Brewing's AI spokesperson drew nearly 300 complaints
The New Jersey brewery answered with a video of the AI character reading mean comments, and founder Marvin Bowe III said he is not backing down.
BBC
Blue Planet III keeps rough footage in to prove it is not AI
The BBC series is leaving in murky water and visible boats so viewers trust that its deep-sea creatures were really filmed.
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NO FAKES Act stalls in the Senate after Cruz objects
The RIAA's chief executive says the voice and likeness bill has a real shot in the lame-duck session, but its House companion has sat untouched since May.
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Fake AI clips spread worldwide, each debunked a different way
A West Bank olive grove video, an Indian Army officer and India's NSA were all targeted by clips fact-checkers and detectors flagged as fake.
James Talarico
Viral Talarico clip is a deepfake, fact checkers say
Researchers attribute the fabricated video to Storm-1516, a Russia-aligned network, and the former student whose face it used says it is not him.
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Grok Imagine's 7-minute AI Odyssey draws ridicule
Startup Fortune reports the clip runs seven minutes and twelve seconds in 4K, short of Elon Musk's July promise of a full film.
Yung Lean
Storm director says AI copies made him want to quit filmmaking
The viral AI remakes, many built with Higgsfield's Genjutsu, have the director of the Yung Lean music video exploring legal action.
Mississippi
Mississippi AG tells Colom to pull fake AI video of Hyde-Smith
Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the posts appear to violate a 2024 deepfake-election law and warned of an injunction if they were not removed.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's AI ad law requires disclosure on deceptive ads
Governor Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 806 on October 22, 2026; it takes effect December 21 and lets the attorney general seek civil fines up to $3,000.
UCLA
YouTube tops TV and film as a story medium in UCLA survey
The UCLA survey of 1,500 young people found 28.2% felt fascinated and 25.6% excited watching a story about AI, even as doom grows with age.
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Korean studio VCAT says it made AI action scenes for TV Asahi
VCAT says it generated characters, backgrounds and buildings for the seven-episode period drama, which premiered on TV Asahi on Oct. 23 and streams on Netflix in more than 190 countries.
Equity
Equity warns over AI rights assignment in game casting
The UK performers' union says it cannot name the game or studio under an NDA, and has not seen the detailed terms it is advising members to scrutinize.
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Spain's conservative opposition ran a fake AI election ad
One person whose likeness the fabricated video used filed a legal challenge, as a majority of nine legal experts told El País the ad was not illegal.
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Two-thirds of microdramas outside China are AI, report says
Owl & Co.'s report for the third quarter of 2026 says the AI share rose from 3 percent in the first quarter to 28 percent in the second.
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EU Socialists draft a bloc-wide ban on harmful deepfakes
The group's tech objectives, seen by POLITICO, would put the duty to stop deepfakes on platforms and AI providers, and name no mechanism for the ban.
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National Trust pauses all TikTok ads after AI ad error
The charity says it is working with TikTok to find out how the automated feature ran AI-generated ads and to add safeguards.
Val Kilmer
AI Val Kilmer western revives the AI actor debate
Kilmer's estate approved the AI likeness for the indie western, but the Guardian's critic calls the performance rigid and missing his voice.