Recent entertainment disputes suggest fans judge AI work by consent, credit and craft, with key allegations still unresolved.

Microsoft offered voluntary exits to about 60,000 employees as Meta disclosed plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity amid heavy AI spending.

Walmart is building tools for AI shopping agents, while Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse. The divide raises questions about checkout, data and customer ownership.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says open-weight AI can cut token costs, but benchmarks and the costs of running hardware complicate the choice.

OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra is priced below its predecessor. Benchmark data points to lower costs per task at low and medium effort, with trade-offs.

OpenAI’s page titled “ChatGPT’s expanding world of work” connects ChatGPT with work, but the available details do not establish what changed or who is affected.

A review of 18 claims in Alan D. Thompson’s AI tracker finds real advances, but says its progress labels do not establish superintelligence.

ByteDance has denied a report that Seed AI research and development head Zhou Chang left to start a company. His status and plans remain unverified.