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150,000 AI-Generated Papers and Counting: ICML 2026 Researchers Hunt for a Watermark That Can’t Be Broken

Researchers at ICML 2026 show how watermarking AI generated images and text remains a challenge.

While watermarking is viewed as a safeguard for tracing AI-generated content, research presented at ICML 2026 shows that building watermarks that are secure, robust and stealthy at the same time remains a fundamental challenge.

400 Newspapers Drag Microsoft and OpenAI to Court for “Stealing” Journalists’ Works

35 Publishers running over 400 newspapers across U.S. have filed a federal lawsuit against OoenAI and Microsoft for training their AI models on journalists' works.

Unlike legacy media houses, this time newspapers owned by small businesses and families have filed a lawsuit seeking fair compensation for their work.

OpenAI Appoints Prabhjeet Singh as India MD for ChatGPT’s Second-Largest Market

Prabhjeet Singh has been appointed Managing Director for India, where he will lead OpenAI's operations as the company expands in its second-largest ChatGPT market after the United States.

Singh, former Uber India and South Asia President, will report to OpenAI’s Managing Director for Asia Pacific, Kiran Mani, and lead the company’s India operations as OpenAI expands its presence in India, home to more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users.

Samsung Deploys ChatGPT and Codex across its Workforce

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across its workforce as part of one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deployments to date.

Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in Korea and its global Device eXperience division as the company expands the use of AI across technical and business operations.

Zhipu AI Market Cap Tops HK$1 Trillion as Shares Soar 42%

Zhipu AI, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Knowledge Atlas Technology, became the first Chinese AI company to go public in January 2026. (Image: Zhipu AI)

Zhipu AI, one of China’s six ‘AI Tiger’ companies, saw its total market capitalisation cross HK$1 trillion (US$128 billion) on Monday as its Hong Kong-listed shares soared as much as 42%, days after the open-source release of its GLM-5.2 model.

Florida Attorney General Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman Over ChatGPT Safety Claims

State of Florida has sued OpenAI and Sam Altman

The lawsuit has alleged ChatGPT’s involvement in incidents of harm to individuals (including shootings), self-harm, and excessive use among minors. 

Over a Third US Students Use Gen AI, 9.3% Admit Cheating: Study

A new SERU Consortium study of more than 95,000 US undergraduates finds that 37.1% use generative AI tools almost monthly, with a notable gender gap in frequency of use. (Representational image)

According to the study 37.1 percent of students reported using generative AI tools almost monthly while 9.3 percent admitted to using it for cheating.

OpenAI Launches New Tool to Verify AI Images Generated by ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched a new tool to verify ai generated images made from openai tools.

OpenAI has claimed that users can check for images generated by other AI tools as well but a confirmed assessment will only come for images generated by OpenAI tools.

OpenAI Launches Personal Finance Agents Within ChatGPT for U.S. Pro Subscribers

OpenAI has introduced personal finance AI agents within ChatGPT

The new AI tool, packaged as “your personal financial advisor” by OpenAI comes in the wake of its competition Anthropic AI launching a suite of pre-built AI agents for banks, insurers and asset managers in early May.

On a $2,500 grant, a Chandigarh researcher just cracked ICML

Kunvar Thaman, 26, an independent AI researcher from Chandigarh, became the third solo independent author to land a paper at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) since ChatGPT launched in 2022. His research, funded by a $2,500 grant from Indian non-profit Exception Raised, evaluated 13 frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek for "reward hacking" — instances where AI models cheat to complete tasks instead of solving them honestly.

Kunvar Thaman’s research asks a question the AI industry would rather not answer: how often do frontier models cheat?