Nauka Wiadomości: 9 sierpień 2025 - 22 sierpień 2025

Technology News

  • AI firms face copyright lawsuits in 2025 as rights holders push back
    December 10, 2025, 1:54 PM EST. The three years since ChatGPT's debut have spotlighted a shift in how copyright is treated in AI. Major rights holders filed a wave of lawsuits alleging training data scraped from the internet-often including copyrighted works-violates copyright law. The most high-profile case pits Disney and Universal against Midjourney, accusing the image generator of training on their properties and producing outputs that copy iconic characters. Midjourney counters that outcomes can be transformative and fall under fair use. Legal experts like Andres Guadamuz warn that copyright isn't stopping AI progress. Governments are weighing in too: Japan asked OpenAI to respect cultural IP, including manga and Nintendo titles. In Sora 2, OpenAI limited depictions of public figures after objections, while opt-out provisions for celebrities remain controversial.
  • CoreWeave and the AI Financing Frenzy: Debt, Circular Deals, and the Data-Center Boom
    December 10, 2025, 1:52 PM EST. CoreWeave, a crypto-mining-turned-data-center operator, has become a focal point in the AI funding boom. Its March IPO was the biggest tech-startup listing since 2021, and shares have surged as the company lines into massive partnerships: a $22B OpenAI deal, a $14B tie-up with Meta, and a $6B arrangement with Nvidia. Yet CoreWeave's finances look precarious: expected $5B revenue against roughly $20B in annual spending, backed by $14B of debt and looming near-term maturities. Much of the revenue comes from a handful of customers-Microsoft alone could account for as much as 70%-with Nvidia both supplier and investor. OpenAI is also a major investor, tying CoreWeave to a web of circular financing that now underpins a broader AI-center expansion-and it may signal more 2008-style risk taking in tech finance.
  • Tesla End-of-Year Deals: 0% APR Financing and $449/Month Model Y Lease Spark Debate
    December 10, 2025, 1:50 PM EST. Tesla is pushing aggressive end-of-year incentives to boost Model Y deliveries, offering 0% APR financing on the base Model Y Standard for 72 months to buyers with credit above 720, with payments around $529 and $3,300 due at delivery. APR tiers range from 0.99% to 2.99% for lower credit bands. Separately, a 36-month lease on the Model Y Premium Rear-Wheel Drive runs around $449/month with $1,145 due at delivery, 10,000 miles/year, and a towering potential buyout of $287,756. While the financing and lease terms look favorable on paper, the deals target a decontented base variant and carry questions about value, depreciation, and long-term costs. If you're not chasing the latest tech or the best equity position, caution is advised-these deals may be attractive, but the fundamentals remain critical.
  • Adobe brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat features to ChatGPT
    December 10, 2025, 1:42 PM EST. Adobe is expanding ChatGPT's capabilities by surfacing features from its flagship apps. Users can tell ChatGPT to use Photoshop to edit specific image areas, remove or blur backgrounds, adjust exposure, brightness, and contrast, and apply effects with adjustable sliders. Through Express, the chatbot can fetch designs from its library, assemble themed creatives, animate elements, and edit designs. With Acrobat, ChatGPT can merge PDFs, edit or extract text and tables, and more. If you prefer, you can continue editing inside Adobe's apps. Availability is global: desktop, web, and iOS support all three, with Android currently limited to Express (Photoshop and Express support coming soon). OpenAI launched third-party app support earlier this year, and competition for usage within ChatGPT remains a key challenge.
  • Elon Musk pushes toward driverless Tesla robotaxis in Austin, targeting near-term full autonomy
    December 10, 2025, 1:40 PM EST. Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that its robotaxis in Austin could be fully autonomous and driverless within weeks, claiming the tech problem is largely solved and validation is underway. The Austin fleet could grow to about 60 Model Y robotaxis serving roughly 173 square miles, as Tesla doubles its local presence this month. The plan falls short of earlier promises for hundreds in Austin and thousands in the SF Bay Area by 2025. If Tesla removes safety monitors, it would join Waymo as the only widely available autonomous ride-hail option in Austin. Tesla relies on cameras rather than lidar or radar, a stance critics say impacts safety. Tesla has 15-30 Austin vehicles and seven crashes since June; Waymo operates about 100 vehicles with nine crashes across five metros.