Meta plans AI users as Suno loses German copyright case

Meta is adding millions of AI-generated “users” to Instagram and Facebook, while Suno lost a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by GEMA in Germany. Other major items included research suggesting generative AI could boost creativity, but only for some workers, and criticism that Google Earth has become more vulnerable to deepfake-related problems for researchers.

Policy and labor concerns remained central. The CHATBOT Act drew criticism for potentially pushing online services to collect more information from children and families, creating privacy and security risks. The Guardian also highlighted doubts that an AI jobs apocalypse is likely anytime soon, while Disney Accelerator announced its 2026 participants with a class focused on AI animation, AI video creation, large-scale AI simulations and AI for the physical world.

New tools and research spanned video, design and games. MiniMax H3 is now available in ComfyUI through Partner Nodes, Black Magic offers video-to-video IC-LoRA for LTX-2.3 22B, and Thrixel is positioned as a platform for creating and editing 3D assets. MLVC reported >70% MOS-based BD-rate improvement over hardware HEVC while averaging around 100 FPS for encoding and decoding on commodity NPUs from Apple, Intel and Qualcomm at 540p.