Disney has accused Google of copyright infringement on a ”massive scale,” alleging that the tech giant is training its AI tools on protected materials as well as allowing those tools to generate infringing images and videos. Varietyreports that Disney attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday.

“Google is infringing Disney’s copyrights on a massive scale, by copying a large corpus of Disney’s copyrighted works without authorization to train and develop generative artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models and services, and by using AI models and services to commercially exploit and distribute copies of its protected works to consumers in violation of Disney’s copyrights,” reads the letter, which Variety reviewed.

Seth MacFarlane‘s Ted series is ready to come out of hibernation.

All eight episodes of the Peacock project’s second season are set to premiere on the NBCUniversal-owned streamer on March 5, 2026. The first stills from the new batch of episodes can be seen above and below.

A new benchmark from Google Deepmind aims to measure AI model reliability more comprehensively than ever before. The results reveal that even top-tier models like Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.1 are far from perfect.

Researchers at Google Deepmind have introduced the FACTS Benchmark, a testing environment designed to evaluate the factual accuracy of large language models (LLMs) across multiple disciplines. The benchmark aggregates performance in four specific categories: visual understanding, internal knowledge, web search, and text-based evidence.

Disney has agreed to invest $1bn (£740m) in OpenAI as part of a deal which will let people use many of its iconic characters in the chatbot ChatGPT and video-generation tool Sora.

It is the first major studio to license parts of its catalogue to the tech giant, in a move which could have major implications for the studio’s future plans.

It means fans will be able to generate and share pictures and videos of more than 200 characters from Disney’s franchises, including Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.

The move comes as OpenAI faces mounting questions about how its rapidly advancing tech is used – and as anxiety in Hollywood increases over the impact of AI on the creative industries.

Sharon Osbourne has revealed that she nearly sent some faeces to Roger Watersfollowing his attack on Ozzy Osbourne.

The Osbournes came to blows with the former Pink Floyd member recently, when the latter took part in an interview with The Independent Ink podcast shortly after Ozzy’s death, and said that he wasn’t a fan him, his time on television, or his music.

“He was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense,” he said “I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less.”

Apple has been accused of breaking the law by failing to comply with US sanctions after the App Store was found to have contain dozens of apps from sanctioned companies. The same was true of Google, though at a smaller scale.

The banned apps were identified by the Tech Transparency Project, which says it demonstrates that Apple failed to live up to its promises that the App Store represents a safe and trusted source …