Raindance Film Festival, CapCut, and Moonmax partnered to produce 'Lost Canon,' a series of 10 AI-native short films created entirely within CapCut Video Studio. The project challenged filmmakers to i…
OpenCut, an open-source CapCut alternative with 69,000 GitHub stars, is rewriting its video editor around a Rust core, plugin architecture, headless batch rendering, and an MCP server for AI agents, a…
TikTok Shop generated $64.3 billion in global sales in 2025, nearly doubling year-over-year, and sellers can open a store with zero followers. A complete AI ad—virtual model, scripted dialogue, 10-sec…
ByteDance is preparing to launch Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates native 30-second clips in a single pass, with an API release targeted for July 16 after a delay from an earlier July 9 d…
Runway and Seedance 2.0 enable solo creators to produce cinematic video intros and location transitions without a production crew. The workflow uses Runway's keyframe feature for controlled motion bet…
ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, 2026, positioning it as a direct rival to OpenAI's GPT-Image 2 with features like layer separation, multi-reference fusion, and multilingual text renderi…
ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a multimodal AI image generation model supporting 2K native resolution, 4K upscaling, and typography in 15 languages, intensifying competition in the generative AI…
A developer automated TikTok video production by connecting ChatGPT's API to FFmpeg Micro's text-overlay feature via n8n or Make.com. The workflow generates scripts under 100 words and burns them onto…
ByteDance is set to launch Dreamina Seedance 2.5, reportedly on July 9, enabling AI video generation up to three minutes. The update extends from short clips to 30-second standard and 180-second exten…
ByteDance's Volcano Arc platform and Seedance AI video model are addressing the IP problem in AI video generation by licensing real actor likenesses and film assets through a revenue-sharing model. Th…
A free AI Creator Kit, built on a Notion workspace with memory-persistent AI agents, templates, and a creator CRM, aims to help founders automate content creation and outreach. The kit, offered by The…
A new report from video editing software company Kapwing found that 57.4% of TikTok videos targeting children are AI-generated slop, with the #cartoonkids hashtag almost entirely composed of such cont…
Palmier launched Palmier Pro, a free video editor that integrates AI media generation directly into the timeline, allowing users to generate, edit, and export AI videos without leaving the editor. Bac…
BytePlus, the enterprise technology arm of ByteDance, hosted a closed-door AI roundtable at APOS 2026 in Bali, drawing senior executives from broadcasters and streaming platforms across six Asian mark…
Meta is adding an AI assistant and a desktop version to Edits, its video-editing app that competes with ByteDance's CapCut. The AI assistant analyzes a creator's Instagram performance data to suggest …
Clement Levallois has compiled a curated list of 164 generative AI applications for visual creation, organized into 11 categories. The list ranks tools for creating, editing, and enhancing images, vid…