Hollywood studios and top filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck are secretly racing to produce the first major AI-generated blockbuster, investing heavily in AI tools despite public skeptici…
A developer investigating FLUX.1 [dev] for commercial use found its non-commercial license and questioned whether AI model vendors can track self-hosted deployments. The article concludes that technic…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2-klein-4B, an image-to-image model under the Apache-2.0 license, now available on Hugging Face with over 470,000 downloads. The model is designed for use with diffuser…
Cerebras and Black Forest Labs CEOs discussed open-source AI, AGI, and Martin Scorsese's use of AI tools, highlighting wafer-scale chips and reasoning models as key advances. Cerebras claims to have e…
Mistral AI offers the Le Chat assistant and a model family including Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4, and Mistral Medium 3.5, with flagship models featuring a 256K token context window and 675B total…
AMD Quark, a quantization library optimized for AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs, enables MXFP4 quantization for Diffusers and xDiT FLUX.1-dev image generation, achieving up to 1.92× speedup over BF16 eager an…
GitHub, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and other LLM-gen-AI companies oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (SB 1000), arguing that provisions requiring revocation of licen…
Martin Scorsese's role as an advisor to AI firm Black Forest Labs has sparked backlash from the Art Directors Guild, which accused the director of betraying human artists. Scorsese's team held a phone…
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite on June 30, 2026, a text-to-image model that generates 1K-resolution images in four seconds at $0.034 per image, embedding it across Search, Google Ads, NotebookLM, …
Nvidia AI Labs researcher Ziv Ilan presented at GTC 2026 that video diffusion models can achieve real-time performance without 50 denoising steps by using a stack of quantization, caching, and distill…
OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…
GitHub joined an open source coalition including Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, and Mozilla Corporation to advocate for amendments to California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942/SB 1000), arguing that …
Runway's fourth annual AI Film Festival in Santa Monica showcased ten AI-generated short films, highlighting rapid advancements in generative AI tools for filmmaking. Industry figures argued that AI d…
Anjney Midha, founder of AMP, argues that the AI scaling race is not just about acquiring more GPUs but about maximizing the efficiency of existing hardware, citing xAI's sub-10% Model FLOPs Utilizati…
Ash Koosha's 'Dreams of Violets,' the first AI-generated film programmed at a major festival, premiered at Tribeca. The Iranian protest drama is dramatically numbing but serves as a startling portent …
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform achieved the fastest AI training results at the largest reported scale, powered by 512 Nvidia H200 GPUs delivering a 28% speedup over prior configurations. The milesto…
Kane Parsons, director of the film "Backrooms," told Variety he opposes using generative AI in filmmaking, saying he would eliminate it if possible and finds it creatively unrewarding. The 20-year-old…
Filmmaker Boots Riley accused Martin Scorsese of accepting a large payment to join AI company Black Forest Labs as an advisor, suggesting the 83-year-old director "doesn't give a fuck" about the techn…
Martin Scorsese, the 83-year-old Oscar-winning director, joined German AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser, becoming the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace generative AI for storyboarding and fi…
Filmmaker Boots Riley publicly criticized Martin Scorsese for endorsing AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing the 83-year-old director of prioritizing financial gain over industry concerns. Scorsese …