TOKYO: Japanese researchers have unveiled a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/big-dreams-for-palestinian-teens-at-singapore-robot-fest" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer">robot</a>&nbsp;monk powered by AI that they say can dispense spiritual advice and maybe one day ease shortages of its human counterparts. Trained on even the most esoteric Buddhist scriptures, the University of Kyoto says the machine can answer sensitive questions that people may feel hesitant to share with other humans. In addition, &quot;Buddharoid&quot;, as the diminutive two-legged humanoid is known, can offer a sense of presence at religious sanctuaries in addition to voice communications. &quot;In the future, it is conceivable that they may assist with or replace some of the religious rituals traditionally performed by human monks,&quot; the university said in a statement on Wednesday. The robot is the latest offering from Seiji Kumagai, a professor at the university&#39;s Institute for the Future of Human Society. Using&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/robot-companion-eases-fear-loneliness-in-hospitals" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer">AI models</a> from OpenAI and others, he has worked with engineering firms to develop religious AI chatbots like Buddha Bot and a catechism bot. For his new creation, Kumagai installed his updated &quot;BuddhaBotPlus&quot; on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/indian-professors-robot-dog-claim-at-ai-summit-sparks-uproar" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chinese-made</a> &quot;Unitree G1&quot; humanoid robot to create the AI robo-monk. In a media presentation at a temple on Tuesday, Kumagai presented the robot &mdash; as yet without a face &mdash; wearing a simple grey garment. It held its gloved hands together in a prayer form and walked around in front of reporters and performed other tasks. As it sat on a chair, the humanoid gave advice to a young local journalist who confessed to thinking and worrying too much. &quot;Buddhism teaches that it is important not to blindly follow one&#39;s thoughts or rush headlong into things,&quot; it said in a soothing baritone to the journalist from national broadcaster NHK. &quot;One approach is to calm your mind and let go of the thought itself,&quot; it said. Religious chatbots powered by artificial intelligence are already popular tools &mdash;&nbsp;as well as contentious &mdash; across all major faiths, used by millions of people. Kyoto already has a non-AI android called Mindar that delivers sermons, and in Germany in 2017 a robot was unveiled with a touchscreen with glowing hands that gave blessings in five languages. But the new machine brings AI and robotics together, offering spiritual advice and holding religious conversations while also performing human-like physical motions. Kyoto University said that ethical discussions must continue about the proper use of such tools in religious settings. But with Japan&#39;s shrinking and ageing population making the labor market tighter, the university said the humanoids may take over some tasks in the future. &quot;In the future, AI humanoid robots are expected to be utilized in the religious field, such as assisting with or performing some of the religious rituals traditionally conducted by human priests,&quot; the university said. &quot;This is anticipated to bring about a paradigm shift in religious culture.&quot;

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Developed at Kyoto University, “Buddharoid” can offer spiritual guidance, answer sensitive questions, and perform rituals. Researchers say AI monks could help address priest shortages amid Japan’s aging population.

Japan introduces AI robot monk to the public

NEW YORK: An onslaught of <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/ai-revolution-looms-over-berlin-film-fest" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">artificial intelligence</a> agents that handle tasks from writing code to dispensing tax advice has the tech world and financial markets scrambling to pick winners and shed losers. Gone are the days of being satisfied with OpenAI&#39;s ChatGPT simply creating responses to text prompts. Makers of leading AI models have embraced &quot;agentic&quot; capabilities that provide software assistants capable of independently tending to tasks, such as creating software applications, based on simple descriptions. Futurum chief strategist Shay Boloor sees the moment as an &quot;inflection point&quot; where millions of AI agents will soon be routinely handling tasks long tended to by people. &quot;We&#39;ve never had a <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/openais-altman-says-world-urgently-needs-ai-regulation" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">tech disruption</a> at this scale before,&quot; Boloor told AFP. &quot;It&#39;s extreme. The market is underwriting that future uncertainty in a doom-based scenario.&quot; The turning point has been marked by rapid-fire releases of ever-improving AI models, including recent new versions from OpenAI and Anthropic. Add to that the November debut of autonomous AI agent OpenClaw that some have equated to the fictional &quot;Jarvis&quot; AI assistant from the &quot;Iron Man&quot; superhero films. The creator of OpenClaw was snapped up by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, signaling that the San Francisco-based startup has even more ambitious agentic aspirations. Future or fiction? Investors quickly saw <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/new-world-for-users-and-brands-as-ads-hit-ai-chatbots" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">AI agents</a> as a threat to software publishers, particularly those serving businesses. <a data-fr-linked="true" href="//Monday.com" style="font-size: 18px;">Monday.com</a>, which specializes in workplace collaboration, along with Salesforce and Thomson Reuters with its tax, accounting and trade software arms saw their stock value plummet 30 percent or more on Wall Street in a matter of days. Georgetown University management professor Jason Schloetzer recounted a recent chat with a chief executive who remarked about no longer needing consultants since there was &quot;one in my pocket&quot; thanks to AI. &quot;There&#39;s paranoia around AI in every industry,&quot; said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. &quot;I believe it&#39;s way overdone.&quot; He viewed the concept of AI models replacing enterprise software and cybersecurity firms as &quot;a fictional tale.&quot; Too much? As AI agents begin shaking up work, creators of large language models powering them continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into a battle for supremacy. Claude-maker Anthropic has OpenAI, Google&#39;s Gemini and even Grok from xAI nipping at its heels in the market for professional AI. Even though massive spending on AI infrastructure has some investors worried, Boloor contends &quot;the risk is not overinvesting, but underinvesting&quot; in the transformative technology. Schloetzer reasons that the economic impact of AI may not be clear for several years, the same way it took time for the internet itself to become a vital part of daily life. &quot;Suddenly, entirely new businesses that had no economic attractiveness without the internet started to exist, like Netflix,&quot; Schloetzer said. &quot;I&#39;m waiting to see these new companies or industries that are created (by AI).&quot; AI angst is spreading way beyond the tech industry. A recent blog post by US entrepreneur Matt Shumer titled &quot;Something Big Is Happening&quot; includes a prediction that AI will be tackling jobs in law, finance, accounting, consulting, medicine and other fields. The experience that tech workers had of seeing AI go from a &quot;helpful tool&quot; to something that &quot;does my job better than I do&quot; will ripple through the service sector, Shumer predicted. Some observers have criticized Shumer&#39;s post. In an opinion piece at the Mind Matters website, technology consultant Jeffrey Funk called it &quot;hype&quot; driven by fear. &quot;The markets are a rational mechanism,&quot; analyst Ives said of company shares being punished by AI worries. &quot;We&#39;re going to get to a crossroads here pretty soon where things will settle down.&quot;

AI processor, conceptual illustration. (Science Photo Library via AFP)

Rapid advances in autonomous AI agents are unsettling tech firms and investors, as companies release increasingly capable models, fueling debate over whether the technology will disrupt enterprise software and professional services industries.

AI agent invasion has people trying to pick winners

NEW DELHI: India tightened rules regulating artificial intelligence on Tuesday, requiring social media platforms to clearly label AI content and comply with takedown requests by authorities within three hours. The updated rules, issued by the Ministry of Information Technology, will come into effect on February 20 and shrink the window for removing content that violates local laws from the previous 36-hour window. India has more than a billion internet users, and AI generated misinformation is becoming widespread in the world&#39;s most populous country. The announcement comes as New Delhi is preparing to host a major global AI summit next week, which will be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and a host of other world leaders. The latest rules apply to content &quot;created, generated, modified or altered through any computer resource&quot; unless the information is generated in &quot;routine or good-faith editing.&quot; The rules, first issued in 2021, were amended to require online platforms like X, Instagram and Facebook to clearly label synthetic data or media manipulated by AI with permanent markings that cannot be suppressed or removed. The updated regulations define synthetic data as information &quot;that appears to be real [...] or is likely to be perceived as indistinguishable from a natural person or real-world event.&quot; They also require online platforms to deploy automated tools to prevent the dissemination of illegal content, including false documents and sexually abusive material. Last year, the government launched an online portal called Sahyog &mdash; meaning &quot;cooperate&quot; in Hindi &mdash; aimed at automating the process of sending government notices to social media platforms such as X and Facebook.

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Updated regulations define synthetic data as information "that appears to be real [...] or is likely to be perceived as indistinguishable from a natural person or real-world event"; also require online platforms to deploy automated tools to prevent the dissemination of illegal content, including false documents and explicit material.

India ramps up AI rules for social media platforms

SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to allow its users this year to create AI versions of themselves for video sharing, matching a feature from Sora, the video-creation app from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.&nbsp;&quot;AI will be a boon to the creatives who are ready to lean in,&quot; CEO Neal Mohan wrote in an annual letter outlining the platform&#39;s priorities for 2026.&nbsp;The Google-owned video platform sees AI as the next transformative technology for content creation, comparing it to earlier innovations like the music synthesizer and Photoshop.&nbsp;More than one million channels used YouTube&#39;s AI creation tools daily in December, according to the company.&nbsp;Mohan said YouTube plans to dramatically expand artificial intelligence tools for its creators this year, including allowing them to produce games from simple text prompts.&nbsp;The ability to generate short videos using your own likeness would follow Sora&#39;s cameo feature, which was launched last year by OpenAI and allows users to insert their likeness and voice into AI-generated videos.&nbsp;Google and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/openai-introducing-ads-to-chatgpt" target="_blank" style="color:#0073e6;" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenAI</a>&nbsp;are caught in an intense AI rivalry, with the search engine giant pushing out generative AI abilities to products such as Gmail and Maps, as well as promoting its Gemini chatbot, a competitor to ChatGPT.&nbsp;In an email to AFP, Google said it would release more details about the feature soon.&nbsp;In his letter, Mohan insisted that &quot;AI will remain a tool for expression, not a replacement&quot; for human creators.&nbsp;This addressed growing concerns about AI-generated content quality and authenticity as well as fears about the long-term survival of creative industries in the face of the technology.&nbsp;The platform will require creators to disclose altered or synthetic content and plans to give them tools to manage unauthorized use of their likeness in AI-generated videos.&nbsp;Mohan said YouTube is also building systems to combat &quot;AI slop&quot; -- low-quality automated content -- by adapting existing anti-spam and clickbait measures.&nbsp;The video service has been the top streaming platform by watch time in the United States for nearly three years, according to Nielsen data. Its short-form video feature, Shorts, now averages 200 billion daily views.

YouTube plans to let creators generate AI videos using their own likeness, expanding AI tools while requiring disclosure, combating low-quality content, and positioning AI as a creative aid amid rivalry with OpenAI this year globally.

YouTube to match OpenAI with AI likeness feature

LONDON: London mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday joined the chorus of warnings on the impact of artificial intelligence for jobs, saying that the UK capital risks &quot;an era of mass unemployment&quot;.&nbsp;The Labour mayor&#39;s comments are to be included in a London speech late Thursday outlining the opportunities and risks posed by AI.&nbsp;With the UK capital home to a large number of finance, professional services and creative jobs, London is &quot;at the sharpest edge of change&quot;, Khan was to say according to excerpts of the speech sent to media.&nbsp;Khan will point also to &quot;huge potential benefits&quot; of the technology if used responsibly, as he unveils a review into its impact on the capital&#39;s jobs market alongside free AI training for millions of Londoners.&nbsp;He will urge swift action to harness those benefits before the technology &quot;becomes a weapon of mass destruction of jobs&quot;.&nbsp;The debate continues over whether AI will destroy jobs, with answers remaining elusive.&nbsp;Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#39;s office on Thursday said that &quot;AI is going to reshape the world of work&quot;.&nbsp;A Downing Street spokesperson added: &quot;Some jobs will be more impacted than others, but the new roles and opportunities it will create is something that we will embrace.&quot;&nbsp;The United Nations recently warned that AI and automation could exacerbate global labour market challenges, particularly for educated young people in wealthier countries seeking their first high-skill jobs.&nbsp;Most forecasts see gradual change.&nbsp;Management consultancy McKinsey recently forecast that 30 percent of US jobs could be automated by 2030, with 60 percent significantly altered.&nbsp;Analysts from US research firm Gartner have suggested that AI will create more jobs than it eliminates by 2027.

London mayor Sadiq Khan warned AI could trigger mass unemployment in the capital without swift action, while acknowledging benefits if managed responsibly. UK leaders and experts say AI will reshape work, with uncertain job impacts.

AI risks 'mass unemployment' in London: mayor

Muhammad Usman Amin

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board (KPITB) has officially designated 2026 as the &ldquo;Year of AI,&rdquo; signaling a shift from basic digitization to a future where artificial intelligence becomes a standard public utility. One of the province&rsquo;s most ambitious initiatives under the Smarter Governance Program is the rollout of GovGPT, an AI-driven tool developed through the Durshal Government Fellowship Program. The system is designed to assist government employees across KP in navigating complex regulations and procedures efficiently. &ldquo;We are working on governance digitization that provides real facilitation to citizens as well as the people who serve them,&rdquo; said Ibrahim Saleem, who oversees key projects at the Durshal Fellowship Lab, speaking to Pakistan TV Digital. Complementing this initiative, the Dastak App now features AI chatbots to respond to citizen queries, while Citizen Facilitation Centers (CFCs) serve as physical hubs where AI-backed systems help process documents such as birth and death certificates or domiciles, allowing citizens to track progress through a single window. KPITB is also using AI as a tool for social change. Karishma Zakaullah, head of growth and partnerships at Code for Pakistan, highlighted a gender-inclusive initiative under the D4WEE (Digitization for Women Economic Empowerment) program, run in collaboration with UN Women. The program trains 6,000 girls from Mardan, Swabi, and Peshawar in advanced AI and digital skills. &ldquo;This is the first-of-its-kind Women Digital Internship,&rdquo; Zakaullah said. &ldquo;Girls from far-flung areas like Chitral and DI Khan receive a stipend of Rs30,000, plus mobile phones and internet access, to learn high-demand ICT skills remotely.&rdquo; For urban residents, AI is being deployed to improve daily life. The KP Open Data Portal now powers intelligent traffic management, automatically adjusting congestion points using camera data and traffic flow metrics. Geospatial mapping and air sensors are being used to identify pollution hotspots and improve environmental health. Looking ahead, Voice2Gov is being developed to allow rural residents to access government services via voice commands in local languages such as Pashto and Urdu. By training both graduating students and government personnel in AI, KPITB is ensuring that the &ldquo;Year of AI&rdquo; represents a long-term transformation rather than a temporary trend. &ldquo;Our goal is the proper utilization of the full potential of AI to make life simpler for every citizen of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,&rdquo; Saleem said. A female visitor at the Durshal offices added, &ldquo;The focus is to make Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a leader in Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence while making people&rsquo;s lives easier and smarter.&rdquo;

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System is designed to assist government employees across KP in navigating complex regulations and procedures efficiently; Dastak App now features AI chatbots to respond to citizen queries, while CFCs serve as physical hubs where AI-backed systems help process documents such as birth and death certificates or domiciles, allowing citizens to track progress through a single window.

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa declares 2026 'Year of AI,' drives inclusive governance

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ISLAMABAD: While much of the world tracked Pakistan&#39;s economic challenges in 2025, its scientists were quietly rewriting the country&#39;s technological narrative. Where a quantum physicist simulated radar systems that could detect hypersonic threats invisible to conventional technology, a teenager from Rawalpindi outcompeted students from 70 nations to claim biology&#39;s biggest prize. Moreover, twin satellites, launched from opposite sides of the world, began beaming back images to monitor everything from melting glaciers to ripening crops. The year 2025 also brought Pakistan&#39;s most significant scientific advances in decades, spanning quantum computing, space technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and human achievement on the global stage. Quantum leap in defense tech Dr. Zuhair Ahmed doesn&#39;t work in a laboratory with billion-dollar equipment. Instead, the chairman of the Centre of Excellence for Technology, Quantum, and AI Pakistan connects remotely to IBM&#39;s quantum processors to conduct cutting-edge research. In October, his team achieved 99.1% quantum fidelity using a technique called Quantum Time Reversal Interferometry on IBM&#39;s 133-qubit Torino processor. The breakthrough demonstrates error correction essential for making quantum computers reliable enough for complex calculations. However, Ahmed&#39;s November achievement grabbed more international attention: Simulating quantum radar capable of tracking stealth-coated hypersonic missiles. Using a three-qubit quantum circuit, the system locked onto simulated targets at 83.2 kilometers and calculated mid-air interception at roughly 40 kilometers altitude. Both studies, published through SSRN and Elsevier, position Pakistan in an elite group of nations exploring quantum applications for defense and computing. Eyes in orbit Pakistan now has four satellites providing real-time intelligence from space, including two launched in 2025 through partnerships with China and T&uuml;rkiye. The HS-1 hyperspectral satellite was launched on October 19 from China&#39;s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. Managed by the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, it captures hundreds of spectral bands invisible to the human eye, providing data crucial for predicting floods, monitoring glacial melt, and identifying geological risks along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The PAUSAT-1 CubeSat, a collaboration between Pakistan Air University and Istanbul Technical University, launched January 14 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Its multispectral imager achieves 1.5-meter ground resolution, sharp enough to distinguish individual vehicles in urban areas. Pakistan also launched its first domestically produced observation satellite, PRSC-EO1, in January and the KS-1 agricultural monitoring satellite in July. Rawalpindi student makes history Abdul Raffay Paracha had competed internationally before, but never won gold. That changed in July at the International Biology Olympiad in the Philippines. The Siddique Public School student became the first Pakistani to claim gold at the IBO since the country began participating in 2006. He competed against top students from more than 70 nations at the 35th edition of the competition. The win validates a decade of investment by the STEM Careers Programme, a partnership between the Higher Education Commission and the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences that identifies and trains talented students. AI for farmers Mahroosh Umer&#39;s team didn&#39;t set out to win a United Nations competition. They wanted to solve a problem: how to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change without expensive consultants or technology. Their solution, AgriGuard.AI, uses artificial intelligence to deliver climate-smart agricultural advice. In August, it won first place at the AI 4 Good Incubator 2025 in Dubai, part of the UN&#39;s AI for Good Global Summit organized by the International Telecommunication Union. The team beat hundreds of global entries and received seed funding, mentorship and connections to scale the platform for farmers worldwide. What it means The 2025 achievements reflect both growing international partnerships and homegrown talent. The quantum research advances Pakistan&#39;s capabilities in cryptography and materials science. The satellites strengthen disaster preparedness. And the human achievements prove Pakistani students can compete at the highest levels.

From quantum computing milestones to space launches and an Olympiad gold, Pakistan marked its strongest year yet in science and technology. 

Pakistan's Quantum, Space And Glory — All Rolled In 2025 

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday announced a pact with allies to secure supply chains for minerals needed for artificial intelligence, hoping to secure a key resource as China quickly takes a lead. The United States signed an agreement on the supply chains with key Asia-Pacific allies concerned about China&#39;s growing clout &mdash; Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Australia &mdash; as well as Israel. Dubbed the &quot;Pax Silica,&quot; adapting the Latin terms for peace and silicon, a key material in AI, the partnership aims to secure supply chains and ensure that the countries are not dependent on China. &quot;Pax Silica is a new kind of international grouping and partnership &mdash; one that aims to unite the countries that host the world&#39;s most advanced technology companies to unleash the economic potential of the new AI age,&quot; a State Department statement said. The United States, which said other countries would join, was vague on the practicalities but said countries would work together to ensure timely supply chains. &quot;We believe that this gathering and grouping matters because the global system is shifting from &#39;just in time&#39; to strategically aligned,&quot; said Jacob Helberg, the State Department&#39;s undersecretary for economic affairs. &quot;Pax Silica ultimately ensures that these countries have reliable access to the inputs and infrastructure that determine AI competitiveness,&quot; he told reporters ahead of the signing. China has quickly taken a dominant position in the race for resources in the fast-growing area of artificial intelligence, mining around 70% of key rare earths. The signing in Washington comes despite President Donald Trump this week announcing he will allow the export of Nvidia&#39;s advanced artificial intelligence chips to China, reversing a decision by his predecessor, Joe Biden, who voiced national security concerns in sharing the key technology. Other countries participating in the meetings in Washington on supply chains, without formally joining the Pax Silica, were the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and the Netherlands, as well as the European Union as an institution.

The signing in Washington comes despite President Donald Trump this week announcing he will allow the export of Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips to China, reversing a decision by his predecessor Joe Biden who voiced national security concerns in sharing the key technology.

US launches pact for AI supply chains to face China

SAN FRANCISCO: Walt Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing deal on Thursday that will allow users to create short videos featuring beloved Disney characters through artificial intelligence. The deal marks the first time a major entertainment company has embraced generative AI at this scale, licensing its fiercely protected characters &mdash; from Mickey Mouse to Marvel superheroes and Star Wars&#39;s Darth Vader &mdash; for AI content creation. The partnership represents a dramatic shift for an industry that has largely been battling AI companies in court. Disney and other creative industry giants have been suing AI firms like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic, accusing them of illegally using their content to train their technology. The entertainment giant continued that legal campaign on Wednesday, separately sending a cease-and-desist letter to Google over the illegal use of its intellectual property to train the search engine giant&#39;s AI models. For OpenAI, the deal comes as it faces increasing questions about the sustainability of its business model, with costs skyrocketing far faster than revenue &mdash; despite nearing one billion users worldwide. Under the agreement, fans will be able to produce and share AI-generated content featuring more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars franchises on OpenAI&#39;s Sora video generation platform and ChatGPT. Launched at the end of September, Sora aims to be a TikTok-like social network where only AI-generated videos can be posted. From the outset, many videos have included characters directly inspired by real cartoons and video games, from South Park to Pok&eacute;mon. Facing license-holder anger, CEO Sam Altman promised OpenAI would offer rights holders more control to put a stop to these AI copies. The partnership includes a $1 billion equity investment by Disney in OpenAI, along with warrants to purchase additional shares in the ChatGPT maker. Disney shares rose more than 2% Thursday after the announcement. Disney CEO Robert Iger said the collaboration would &quot;thoughtfully and responsibly extend the reach of our storytelling.&quot; Characters available for fan creations will include Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Elsa from Frozen, and Marvel heroes like Iron Man and Captain America, as well as Star Wars icons including Darth Vader and Yoda. The agreement excludes talent likenesses and voices from actors amid deep concern in Hollywood about the impact of AI. &quot;This does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all &mdash; in fact, the opposite. I think it honors them and respects them, in part because there&#39;s a license fee associated with it,&quot; Iger told CNBC. Hollywood&#39;s leading actors union, SAG-AFTRA, said it would &quot;closely monitor&quot; the deal&#39;s implementation, while the Writers Guild of America said it will meet with Disney to probe the terms and underlined that OpenAI had stolen &quot;vast libraries&quot; of studio content to train its technology. 30 secondsIger, in a joint interview with Altman on CNBC, insisted the deal only includes videos no longer than 30 seconds and the technology wouldn&#39;t be used for longer-form productions. Beyond licensing, Disney will deploy OpenAI&#39;s technology to build new products and experiences for Disney+, the streaming platform. &quot;Disney is the global gold standard for storytelling,&quot; Altman said. &quot;This agreement shows how AI companies and creative leaders can work together responsibly.&quot; Both companies emphasized their commitment to responsible AI use, with OpenAI pledging age-appropriate policies and controls to prevent illegal or harmful content generation. In Disney&#39;s complaint against Google, OpenAI&#39;s biggest rival in the AI space, the entertainment giant accuses Google of infringing Disney&#39;s copyrights on a massive scale by copying a large corpus of content without authorization to train and develop AI models and services. &quot;We&#39;ve been aggressive at protecting our IP, and we&#39;ve gone after other companies that have not valued it, and this is another example of us doing just that,&quot; Iger told CNBC.

The deal marks the first time a major entertainment company has embraced generative AI at this scale, licensing its fiercely protected characters for AI content creation.

Make your own Mickey Mouse clip — Disney embraces AI

SAN FRANCISCO: Computer and printer maker HP announced on Tuesday a sweeping restructuring plan that will eliminate about 10% of its workforce globally as the company pivots toward artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency. According to its latest earnings report, the tech giant expects to reduce its global headcount by between 4,000 and 6,000 employees to focus on adopting AI to increase innovation and customer satisfaction. HP&#39;s move reflects a broader trend across the tech sector, where companies are investing heavily in AI development while using the technology to reduce operational costs. Major tech firms including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced workforce reductions over the past two years, with many citing the need to reallocate resources, including jobs, toward AI initiatives. Industry analysts say AI automation is particularly affecting roles in customer support, content moderation, data entry, and certain computer programming tasks. HP said its AI plan aims to generate approximately $1 billion in annual savings by the end of fiscal 2028. The company has been working to transform its business model amid changing demand patterns in the PC and printing markets. HP CEO Enrique Lores told the Wall Street Journal that the company plans to raise the prices of its computers and work with new suppliers to help offset the higher costs of AI computing. In its latest quarter, HP posted a profit of $795 million, compared with $906 million a year earlier. Revenue rose 4.2% to $14.64 billion, topping analyst estimates with sales in PCs offsetting a decline in printer sales.

Tech giant expects to reduce its global headcount by between 4,000 and 6,000 employees to focus on adopting AI to increase innovation, customer satisfaction.

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