Overview

• Hollywood agencies and industry groups criticized Sora for exploiting copyrighted works and likenesses, and OpenAI said it is removing generated known-character content and will offer finer controls to rights holders after initially using an opt-out approach.
• Dozens of counterfeit “Sora” apps flooded Apple’s App Store, racking up roughly 300,000 installs and more than $160,000 before most were taken down, raising questions about app review and brand protection.
• Morgan Stanley reported leading developers plan roughly a 10x jump in training compute by end‑2025 that could yield a 2026 capability leap, while warning about a potential “scaling wall,” power constraints and regulatory risks.
• Productization accelerated with Figure AI unveiling the Figure 03 home-service humanoid—with autonomous demo tasks and its Helix neural architecture—while Didi Autonomous Driving secured RMB 2 billion in D-round funding to speed L4 deployment.
• Wiley’s global survey found AI adoption among researchers rose to 84% as confidence in AI’s readiness fell, with heightened concerns about hallucinations, safety, privacy and ethics.