A California mother pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal after she allegedly left her baby in a hot car while she got lip filler.
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It didn't take long for a Chinese-owned AI company to get slapped with reality from American companies.
ByteDance, known for its short-form video app TikTok, released Seedance 2.0 on February 12, allowing users to create realistic AI videos from simple text prompts.
'Stealing human creators' work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture.'
Quickly, users were recreating lifelike scenes that included everything from influencer videos to Hollywood action sequences. However, it only took Hollywood about 24 hours to make the call to its legal teams about what was being posted online that featured its copyright-protected material.
Disney was seemingly the first to let ByteDance know it needed to stop what it was doing, and the company sent a letter to ByteDance that accused it of pre-packaging its product with "a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney's coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art."
According to Axios, Disney attorney David Singer also accused ByteDance of "hijacking Disney's characters by reproducing, distributing, and creating derivative works."
"ByteDance's virtual smash-and-grab of Disney's IP is willful, pervasive, and totally unacceptable," the lawyer added.
In response, ByteDance assured the concerned parties that it would be acting to prevent the use of unauthorized materials.
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The company told CNBC that it "respects intellectual property rights" and has "heard the concerns regarding Seedance 2.0."
"We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users," a spokesperson claimed.
It wasn't long before huge groups like the Motion Picture Association jumped in to back Disney up; the MPA represents not only the Mickey Mouse company, but Netflix, Paramount Skydance, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., and Discovery.
"In a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale," MPA chairman Charles Rivkin said in the statement.
Rivkin said the "infringement" affects "millions of American jobs" by disregarding the well-established copyright laws that are already on the books.
The Human Artistry Campaign — which represents groups like SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America — also chimed in and said that Seedance 2.0 was attacking every creator around the world.
"Stealing human creators' work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture: stealing isn't innovation," the group said in a statement.
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For reasons unknown, the AI video generator became popular very quickly with those looking to recreate Hollywood-tier fight scenes with some of their favorite comic book characters, like Superman and the Incredible Hulk.
However, other fight scenes included bringing cartoons like "Dragon Ball Z" to life, while others featured rooftop fisticuffs between celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
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While the Miss America pageant has long been known for featuring the most beautiful women in the country, organizers are now opening the competition up to biological men and removing the crowns of those who disagree.
When Miss North Florida Kayleigh Bush refused to sign a contract that featured the pageant’s updated policies because it changed the language to claim that men can be considered women and eligible to compete, she was stripped of her title.
And BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is seriously disturbed, saying, “Miss America is now allowing trans people to compete.”
“Now they’ve got updated rules. Contestants have to be women aged 18 to 28, unmarried, no children, and U.S. citizens. However, ‘women,’ air quotes, includes those born female or an individual who has fully completed sex reassignment surgery via vaginoplasty,” she explains.
BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is as shocked as Gonzales.
“The mental gymnastics that they have to go through — which is, by the way, going to tank the organization. It’s going to be over,” he says, before pointing out that it’s a “communist play.”
“They want to say that ugly is beautiful. They want to say, ‘Look at that beautiful building.’ And you go, ‘Uh, it’s a concrete building.’ … But isn’t it funny? That’s what they’re doing,” he says.
“What they’re trying to do is mess with your head. I mean, really, they’re trying to tell you, ‘Hang on a second. Beauty is ugly. Ugly is beauty. Don’t look at this. Don’t look at that. A man’s a woman. A woman’s a man,’” he continues.
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China's latest autonomous robots display has some viewers worried while others can't even believe it is real.
China held its annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, which is an annual performance that shows off the latest the country has to offer in tech.
'Some "imperfection" movement of the robots is really scary.'
The event saw a reported 677 million viewers across platforms, according to China Daily, and an alleged 13.5 billion views on clips after the fact.
What caught the most eyes in the West though, was the performance of humanoid robots from tech company Unitree Robotics. Unitree was one of four robot companies to put on displays, but it seemingly caught the most eyes with its robots' drunken boxing routine, performed alongside acrobatic children.
The performance included sword and staff work, gymnastics, and even breakdancing. According to NBC News, new innovations in multi-robot coordination and fault recovery were a focus in the display, with the latter referring to a robot's ability to get up after falling down.
Reactions online were a mix of shock and awe, along with worry.
"This is getting scary and creepy," one user commented on YouTube.
"Some 'imperfection' movement of the robots is really scary," another viewer added.
However, there exist claims that the robots are not actually this advanced, and some sort of postproduction was involved.
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On X, one viewer pointed out the drastic difference between the robotic capabilities on display at the festival in 2025 versus 2026. Last year, robots were stumbling around waving handkerchiefs, while this year they are in choreographed gymnastics and martial arts displays.
"In just one year, they have evolved from robots to 'humans,'" AI entrepreneur Tansu Yegen wrote.
Another user disputed the video, saying he saw the same robots at a live demo "a month ago in Shenzhen."
"They're slow, shaky, & can barely shuffle let alone do any of this. This isn't the first time unitree has used cgi to fake capability," he claimed.
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Last year, Unitree put on a Humanoid Robot Boxing event that showed robots sloppily competing in martial arts with one another. The capabilities this February would likely be considered a vast jump from what was seen in May 2025 by the fighter bots.
Still there is yet to be any concrete evidence that Unitree or China was faking the event.
At the same time though, Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. Ltd. launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-Out Legend event a week earlier.
The company plans to have "Chinese Robot Kung Fu" robots battle it out for a 10-kilogram pure gold belt worth about $1.4 million.
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Stephen A. Smith has made some comments that will not be appreciated by the Democrat base whose support he may or may not seek to have in 2028.
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