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Meta agreed to unmask the accounts behind threats to Filipino kids.

Meta promised Philippine officials it will pull AI deepfakes faster and share account data on flagged threats, Rockstar said no generative AI went into GTA 6, and South Korea picked three companies to give every citizen a free AI.

01Top Story

Meta promised to pull AI deepfakes in PH

Meta, which owns Facebook, told a Philippine government delegation in Singapore it will take down harmful AI-generated deepfakes faster and give investigators subscriber and traffic data once a threat to children is identified.

why it matters
A Meta team flies to Manila in mid-September to put the promises in writing.
Read at Inquirer.net
02Games

GTA 6 was built with no generative AI

Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson said no generative AI went into Grand Theft Auto 6, which ships November 19 with more than 600,000 animations, against roughly 55,000 in GTA 5.

why it matters
The studio is selling the fact that people made all of it, at a moment when almost nobody else is.
Read at Neowin
03South Korea

South Korea will give everyone free AI

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT picked SK Telecom, Kakao and KT out of six bidders to run free, unlimited AI chatbots for every citizen, with a beta in September and full rollout in December.

why it matters
The government is handing the three groups 512 Nvidia chips this year and will subsidise the running costs from 2027.
Read at The Korea Herald
04Music

Sony and Warner are suing over Claude

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and its co-founders in a California federal court, accusing them of torrenting and scraping songs to train Claude, and are asking for up to $150,000 per song.

why it matters
Anthropic was already ordered to pay $1.5 billion in a similar case over how it got the books it trained on.
Read at TechCrunch
05OpenAI

SpaceX bought Cursor. OpenAI cut it off.

OpenAI told SpaceX it will wind down the contract that puts its AI inside Cursor, a coding app SpaceX just bought, with a proposed cutoff of November 12, saying it is not confident Musk's companies will follow its rules.

why it matters
Musk admitted under oath this year that xAI, now part of SpaceX, had violated OpenAI's terms.
Read at OpenAI

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