Technology News 12/6: Vivatech Paris 2025 opens, Hollywood embroiled in legal battle over AI.

Nvidia is pushing AI in Europe.

At the Vivatech 2025 technology fair in Paris, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans to increase AI computing capacity in Europe tenfold within two years. He also announced a multi-billion dollar partnership with Mistral AI, a leading French AI company. President Emmanuel Macron hailed it as a "historic" opportunity and emphasized the importance of humane, sustainable, and secure AI. This year's fair attracted 14,000 startups and over 3,000 investors from around the world .

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and French President Emmanuel Macron at the VivaTech 2025 conference.

Huang also announced that Nvidia will expand its cooperation with Siemens (Germany) and Schneider Electric (France), and build more data centers in seven European countries.

Vivatech 2025 attracted over 13,500 startups, 3,500 investors, and a host of major technology companies participating in the exhibition. Key themes at the event included practical AI applications, technological connections between Europe and China, and advancements in mental health.

Hollywood sues Midjourney for copyright infringement of AI images.

On June 11, 2025, Disney and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement by allowing users to create AI-generated images of characters such as Darth Vader, Shrek, Yoda, Wall-E, Stormtroopers, Minions, and many others. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, marked Hollywood's first major lawsuit against an AI image-generating company.

Midjourney is an AI-powered image synthesis service that allows users to input text prompts to generate new images. However, film studios allege that the platform uses copyrighted data without permission, collected from the internet through bots, crawlers, video downloads, and other tools.

Visual evidence in legal filings shows that AI can generate high-quality images containing copyrighted characters from film studios.

Before filing the lawsuit, Disney and NBCUniversal attempted to negotiate with Midjourney, but the company continued to develop the service without proper adjustments. Several other major studios, including Amazon, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Sony, and Warner Bros., have not yet joined the lawsuit, even though they are also members of the Motion Picture Association.

This lawsuit marks a new front in Hollywood's copyright battle with AI, where studios are not only protecting actors' images but also fighting for intellectual property rights over iconic figures in the film industry.

Foxes 'invade' Google's $1 billion headquarters in London.

A pack of foxes has taken over the top floor of Google's King's Cross headquarters in London, causing numerous problems for the rooftop garden. The foxes are digging burrows, roaming throughout the building, and even leaving tracks on unused ground.

Urban foxes are frequently seen in London, England.

According to pest control experts, they feed on rats – a common species in London – and food left behind by construction workers. Some theories suggest they appeared during the early stages of the building's construction and exploited the food sources available at high altitudes.

Although no one knows for sure how the foxes got here, they have orchestrated a bizarre "invasion" right inside one of Europe's largest technology headquarters.

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