Heineken to cut up to 6,000 jobs in AI-driven 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales The move aims to save €400–500 million annually through productivity gains, including AI and digitisation in business services and operations.

Disney has sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over its new Seedance 2.0 AI video tool. The letter accuses ByteDance of including a pirated library of Disney characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other franchises, treating them like free public domain clip art. Disney calls the infringement willful and pervasive, with examples like Spider-Man, Darth Vader, and Grogu. No lawsuit yet

Sony has patented a new asset streaming system that aims to reduce the size of PS5 and PS6 games to combat rising SSD prices, potentially shrinking initial downloads from 100GB+ to around 100MB. High-detail assets would stream from Sony servers on demand while core game logic runs locally on the console, lowering SSD storage needs. It remains only a patent and is not confirmed for release.