Iran War in Information Fog. Britannica Sues OpenAI. OpenAI Seeks Deployment Partners. Nvidia Fuses 3D and Generative AI.

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Iran War, in Information Fog, Britannica Sews Open AI, Open AI Seeks Deployment Partners,

Nvidia Fuses 3D and Generative AI.

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The New York Times identified more than 110 AI-generated images and videos in the first two weeks of the United States Iran conflict.

They reached millions.

Analysis firm Syabra says the majority pushed pro-Iran narratives intended to exaggerate Tehran's military impact.

Fakes ranged from fabricated explosions in Tel Aviv to staged images of damage aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

At the same time, satellite firms extended a delay on high-resolution images for the region from four days to two weeks, limiting independent verification.

Fake Ocent accounts and manipulated images have proliferated, even reaching German newsrooms via an agency network that later removed suspect photos.

The net effect is an information fog where scarce real imagery leaves public perception shaped by synthetic visuals.

Britannica and Merriam Webster sued Open AI, alleging massive copyright infringement after nearly 100,000 articles were scraped and used to train chat GPT.

The complaint says outputs can reproduce verbatim passages and that Open AI's rag workflow, which scans the web for updated information, relied on Britannica content.

The suit invokes the Lanam Act, alleges hallucinations were falsely attributed to the publisher, and says chat GPT diverts publisher's revenue.

Britannica joins the New York Times, Ziff Davis, and more than a dozen papers in related suits.

A prior anthropic case deemed training use transformative, but led to a $1.5 billion settlement over illegal downloads.

Open AI did not respond to TechCrunch.

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Open AI is negotiating with private equity firms led by TPG on a joint venture to sell its products into investors portfolio companies and beyond.

The venture is expected to be valued at around $10 billion with investors contributing about $4 billion and gaining board influence.

Fiji Simo confirmed Open AI is building an internal deployment arm and shared adoption figures.

Over 1 million companies use Open AI products, Codex has over 2 million weekly users, and API use rose 20% after GPT 5.4.

Demand for Frontier exceeds capacity, so Open AI plans to embed engineers and customer companies.

Anthropic is pursuing a similar joint venture for Claude valued at $1 billion.

At Nvidia GTC on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang introduced DLSS-5, a new AI graphics system intended to make games more realistic while using less compute.

DLSS-5 combines structured three-dimensional graphics data with generative AI that predicts and fills parts of images, reducing how much GPUs must render.

Huang described this as fusing controllable virtual world data with probabilistic generative models.

He presented the approach as part of a broader shift beyond gaming, now a smaller share of Nvidia's revenue, and pointed to enterprise platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery as places where structured data could pair with generative systems, calling structured data a foundation for trustworthy AI.

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