A Memphis DVD company employee pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and illegal firearm possession, admitting to stealing and selling pre-release DVDs and Blu-rays.

Walt Disney Co. and Universal Pictures have filed a landmark lawsuit against the AI platform, Midjourney, for copyright infringement.

Stable Diffusion’s roots trace back to Germany, where computer scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich worked with the New York-based tech company Runway to develop the original algorithms. The university researchers credited Stability AI for providing the servers that trained the models, which require large amounts of computing power.