BuzzFeed debuts AI slop apps in bid for new revenue

BuzzFeed unveiled new AI-powered social apps at SXSW, but its demos drew muted reactions.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexit…

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexit…

Steven Spielberg says he’s ‘never used AI’ in any of his films

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg said AI has uses in many fields, but not when it comes to replacing creative people in film and TV writing.

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking i…

Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

InterPositive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of con…

Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

The US Department of War has issued the first such designation ever applied to an American company, demanding that defence contractors certify they do not use Claude. Anthropic says the action is unlawful and retaliatory. For months, the conversations …

Why SXSW Is Ground Zero For The New Rules Of Human Expression

AI is the newest tool in a long line of human expression. Ahead of SXSW, Superhuman makes the case that AI should empower creativity, not replace it.