OpenAI could release GPT-5 this year / France fines Google $270M over AI news deals / EU could pass AI election rules [EN]

OpenAI is rumored to potentially release GPT-5 in the summer, European lawmakers are set to pass rules to counter AI-generated disinformation, Google was fined €250M by France for training its Bard AI on news content without consent, and Stability AI sees the departure of three key researchers behind Stable Diffusion technology.