Jess Weatherbed

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released the first images taken by its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera — the largest digital camera ever made — ahead of starting its 10-year survey of the southern sky. You can read up on details about these shots in PetaPixel’s report, and more images and video will be released later today following a Rubin Observatory livestream at 11AM ET.

The British broadcaster has threatened legal action against Perplexity for allegedly using BBC content to train AI, saying that the Perplexity chatbot was regurgitating its content verbatim. This is the first time that the BBC has taken action against an AI company, demanding that Perplexity cease scraping BBC content, delete copies of infringing material, and provide the broadcaster with “financial compensation.”

The preliminary findings of Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial “didn’t find a single ubiquitous solution” for the country’s incoming social media ban for under-16s, but trial director Tony Allen said there’s little stopping services like Facebook, Instagram, and X from implementing existing age-verification methods like facial scans, behavior assessments, and parental controls.

While Meta said ads will be globally introduced to WhatsApp’s updates tab “slowly over the next several months,” the company has now clarified to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DCP) that they won’t arrive in the European Union market until 2026. That gives EU privacy regulators time to discuss data-sharing concerns about the ad model.

The video platform is launching a new “open call” feature that allows creators to effectively audition for brand partnerships. Companies can publish campaign briefs to the YouTube Partner Program hub where creators then submit video content for the brands to review and approve, which may prevent smaller creators from being overlooked.