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-Three teenagers, who allege that photos of them were used by Grok to generate child exploitation material, have filed a class action lawsuit against xAI in California.

-Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch wrote in a letter, "Seedance 2.0 poses a direct threat to the American intellectual property system and, more broadly, to the constitutional rights and economic livelihoods of our creative community."

-Krafton must reinstate Ted Gill as CEO of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company fired Gill and two other co-founders last year as part of a shakeup involving the long-anticipated sequel Subnautica 2.
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The agency anticipates about four launch opportunities between April 1st and 6th.
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-To capitalize on Claude's recent spike in popularity, Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for anyone using its AI chatbot during off-peak hours. The promotion started last Friday and runs until March 27, users on Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans will get double the usage limits in a five-hour window when using Claude outside weekday hours between 8 AM and 2 PM ET.

-A month after Seedance 2.0's launch in China sparked cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance over its use of copyrighted materials, its developer ByteDance has reportedly hit pause on the release of the AI video tool in other regions.

-Humans have taken some jobs back from AI. Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund recently told GamesIndustry.biz that the studio "re-recorded" some of the AI-generated voice lines in Arc Raiders with human voices.
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Google's Gemini chatbot is now also available through the app.
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-The International Data Corporation further cut its forecasts for the PC market in 2026, anticipating that global shipments would fall 11.6 percent.

-The Teamsters are primarily concerned with how merging the two companies will consolidate power, and eliminate jobs in the process.

-The TTP said that X's blatant disregard for U.S. sanctions law is concerning due to the fact that Elon Musk's companies have a contract with the Pentagon while X is actively profiting from U.S. adversaries.
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