Midjourney, an AI image-generation firm, is seeking to compel three Hollywood studios to reveal details of their own artificial-intelligence usage as part of an ongoing legal dispute. The move attempts to expose the studios' reliance on AI tools even as they pursue litigation against the company. Source
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, has reportedly classified Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant, as high-risk software and banned employees from using it. The move reflects growing corporate caution around tools developed by foreign AI firms. Source
Fanfiction writers on Archive of Our Own have launched a movement to root out authors using generative AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT, but the detection methods being deployed are of questionable reliability and risk ensnaring writers who have not used AI. The campaign reflects broad community distaste for generative tools but threatens to create collateral damage across the platform. Source
Tech workers in San Francisco earning six-figure salaries are increasingly unable to afford the city's housing market as OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for public offerings and compensation for AI specialists widens the gap with the broader sector. Some employees doubt they can afford to remain in the region despite their nominal wealth. Source