Tesseract Academy AI & Web3 News 6/13/2025

AI Snippets

1. Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement: Studios including Walt Disney and Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney in federal court, alleging the AI image generator unlawfully scraped and reproduced characters like Darth Vader and Elsa without permission, seeking injunctions and damages in what they describe as “a bottomless pit of plagiarism.” reuters.com

2. Critical zero-click vulnerability discovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Security researchers at Aim Security uncovered “EchoLeak” (CVE-2025-32711), the first known zero-click AI vulnerability, which could have silently exfiltrated sensitive data from Copilot simply by sending a crafted email, prompting Microsoft to issue an advisory and patch the flaw before any reported exploitation. cybersecuritydive.com

3. Stanford researchers generate GPU kernels via AI that match expert code: A Stanford team showed that test-time LLM-driven synthetic data generation can produce pure CUDA-C kernels rivaling or surpassing PyTorch’s hand-tuned versions—achieving 101% of reference speed on matrix multiplication and 179% on Conv2D—revealing AI’s potential to automate low-level ML optimizations. crfm.stanford.edu

4. Open 8 TB “Common Pile” dataset released for public LLM training: The “Common Pile” offers an 8-terabyte corpus of exclusively public domain and openly licensed text sourced from over 30 archives—including ArXiv, Project Gutenberg, and government records—enabling developers to train competitive LLMs without proprietary data. Access the dataset jack-clark.net

5. Reddit sues Anthropic over alleged comment scraping for Claude training: Reddit filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against Anthropic, accusing the startup of deploying bots to scrape user comments for training its Claude chatbot without consent, marking a fresh legal challenge over dataset licensing and user privacy. cur.at

Web3 Snippets

1. PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin surpasses $1 billion market capitalization: PYUSD, PayPal’s native stablecoin, rebounded to an all-time high of $1.01 billion in circulating supply—doubling since January—and now ranks as the tenth-largest stablecoin by market cap as demand shifts from incentive-driven growth to organic adoption. thedefiant.io

2. Ondo Finance debuts $693 million treasury token on XRP Ledger amid growing real-world asset trend: Ondo launched its flagship OUSG tokenized U.S. Treasury fund on the XRP Ledger, enabling qualified investors to mint and redeem shares 24/7 via RLUSD, contributing to a $7.2 billion onchain treasury market and marking one of the largest RWA launches to date. Read more coindesk.com

3. Ethereum Foundation unveils $1 trillion security initiative for network resilience: The Ethereum Foundation announced plans to mobilize up to $1 trillion in funding—via grants, audits, and bug bounties—to bolster protocol security and support widespread adoption of Ethereum as it scales to institutional usage. thedefiant.io