Tesla has avoided a 30-day suspension of its sales and manufacturing licenses in California after ceasing the use of the term "Autopilot" in its vehicle marketing within the state, according to TechCrunch. The decision, issued late Tuesday, resolves a nearly three-year-long case and allows Tesla to continue selling its electric vehicles in California, its largest U.S. market.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) had accused Tesla of violating state law by using deceptive marketing for Autopilot, its basic advanced driver assistance system, and its more capable Full Self-Driving driver assistance software, as reported by TechCrunch. The state regulator argued that the terms misled customers and misrepresented the capabilities of the advanced driver assistance systems. The DMV filed these accusations in November 2023.
In other news, ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant, has pledged to curb its AI video-making tool, Seedance, following a legal threat from Disney and complaints from other entertainment companies, as reported by the BBC. Videos created using Seedance have recently gained popularity online, but several Hollywood studios have accused the AI platform of copyright infringement. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, accusing it of supplying Seedance with copyrighted material.
Additionally, a federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform for personalized video messages from celebrities, and ordered OpenAI to stop using the name "Cameo" in its products and features, according to TechCrunch. OpenAI was using the name for its AI-powered video generation app Sora 2. The court found the name similar enough to cause user confusion. The AI company had previously been ordered to stop using the word and subsequently renamed the feature to Characters.
Meanwhile, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has warned that illegal skin lightening creams are being sold in butchers and specialist food shops across the UK, as well as online, according to the BBC. The CTSI has advised the public to avoid these products and report shops that continue to sell them. "As a black woman and a long-standing advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion, I want to be absolutely clear: the sale of illegal skin lightening products is not only dangerous, it is unlawful," said Tendy Lindsay, a CTSI member and former chair, according to the BBC.
Finally, popular streamers, including Alastair, known online as Eret, have expressed concerns about Discord's upcoming age verification process, as reported by the BBC. Eret, who has over a million followers on Twitch and around 60,000 members in his Discord server, is worried about the implications for user data. "A lot of people use the online world as a place where they can talk about..." he stated, according to the BBC.
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