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Represents some KQED employees in the settlement class; did not respond to comment requests

KQED, the San Francisco public media nonprofit whose newsroom covers wage theft, will pay nearly $900,000 to settle a class action accusing it of the same. More than 580 hourly employees who worked at the station between August 2019 and May 2025 will share about two-thirds of that money.

Updated 5 days ago

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Successfully forced OpenAI to tighten Sora deepfake guardrails in late 2025

OpenAI previewed Sora as a glimpse of cinema's AI future in February 2024. Twenty-six months later, on April 26, 2026, the company switched off the Sora consumer app for good.

Updated May 31

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Won industry‑wide AI safeguards for performers; now watching studio–AI alliances warily.

Mickey Mouse just shook hands with the algorithm Hollywood spent two years trying to tame. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, letting Sora and ChatGPT Images legally generate short videos and images of more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters — not the actors who play them.

Updated May 11