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Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount, Disney Send ByteDance Seedance AI Cease-and-Desist Letters
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in "blatant infringement" of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms.

Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount, Disney Send ByteDance Seedance AI Cease-and-Desist Letters
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in "blatant infringement" of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms.

This evil loser repeatedly breaks every one of the 7 Deadly Sins - Greed, Lust, Sloth, Pride, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath - and only NOW they ask if he's the Antichrist?
✅ Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/staun…

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist
The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Scouting strengths and weaknesses of 2026 NFL Draft's top 3 QBs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7044384/2026/02/16/nfl-draft-2026-quarterbacks-scouting-reports-mendoza-simpson/

"Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here’s why you should care."

Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here's why you should care.

ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100 countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedance-laun…

ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.0 Globally, Excluding the U.S.
ByteDance’s cloud computing unit has made the company’s Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers in more than 100 countries and regions around the world—but the U.S. is not among them. It is unclear whether the cloud unit, BytePlus, has any plans to offer the model in the U.S. later. The U.S. is not included in BytePlus’s list of countries and

The Raiders Have Established Their Stance with Wide Receiver Room https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-have-established-their-stance-wide-receiver-room

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/the-world-of-voice-ai-with-mati…

The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
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Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google and Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal as Company Rebuilds Military Ties
Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s ...

ByteDance says it "respects IP rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance" and it plans to "strengthen" safeguards, after Disney's legal threats (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wq6xqgy1o

Seedance: ByteDance to curb AI app after Disney legal threat
Videos featuring Spider-Man and other characters which are Disney's intellectual property have gone viral since Seedance's update.