Runway has introduced Runway Ruby, a new model that converts SDR video up to 16-bit HDR in ProRes and EXR sequences, compatible with any existing uploaded video or generated output up to 30 seconds. E…
Building AI video agents in 2026 has shifted from single API calls to multi-step systems that plan, generate, check, and fix outputs, with model rankings changing monthly—Runway's Gen-4.5 topped the A…
Backblaze announced the results of its Generative AI Media Hackathon, held from June 22 to August 3, 2026, with 1,314 participants competing for a share of a $10,000 prize pool. The winning project, f…
Adobe has made three AI audio tools—Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects—broadly available in its Firefly platform, all cleared for commercial use. The company also added Google…
Runway is the most balanced AI video tool for marketing teams, while Kling excels in realism and motion, Pika suits fast social clips, Luma fits cinematic moodboards, and Sora requires careful verific…
Adobe has launched Firefly AI Video Generator, a free tool that integrates top AI video models—Google Veo, Runway, Kling, and Adobe's own Firefly Video Model—into one environment, offering precise con…
Adobe's Firefly AI Video Generator integrates top AI video models—Google Veo, Runway, Kling, and Adobe's own Firefly Video Model—into one environment, offering precise controls and a built-in editor w…
In a test of 48 AI-native startups, a language model with no web access correctly described only 4 by name, while 44 drew a blank. However, when asked category questions, 28 of the 48 were recommended…
Higgsfield, an AI video platform founded by Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation, more than quadrupling its January valuation of $1.3 billion in …
CoreWeave shares surged about 14% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the AI cloud provider reported record second-quarter revenue of $2.575 billion, up 112% year-over-year, and a revenue backlog of …
World-model startups raised roughly $3.5 billion in a single quarter, with Fei-Fei Li's World Labs closing a $1 billion round, Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion, Odyssey valued at $1.45 bill…
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3 Video, an AI video generation model now available on Runway and Leonardo, capable of producing clips up to 20 seconds long with a focus on realistic physics. The comp…
Generative AI has reduced audiovisual production costs by 50% to 90%, enabling businesses to create professional video ads, product photography, and digital avatars at a fraction of traditional costs,…
Generative KI hat die audiovisuelle Produktion bis 2026 so weit verbessert, dass Unternehmen Werbevideos, Produktfotografie und digitale Avatare zu 50% bis 90% geringeren Kosten als bei traditioneller…
VideoAll, a new platform, offers a tracker and comparison service for AI video models, allowing users to see model fit, cost, and capability before generating videos. The platform supports ten top mod…
Google launched Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language action model, along with Gemini Robotics ER 2 and On-Device 2, to enable humanoid robots to reason and act with whole-body control.…
Nscale, the AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power, has agreed to buy Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework, in a deal announced …
MiniMax teased H3 as a unified multimodal model for Hailuo AI, saying only 'It's coming.' on X. The model, previewed at WAIC 2026, aims to interpret a shared context from text, images, video and sound…
Google's SynthID watermarking technology, designed to label AI-generated content and survive edits, is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, Runway, and others, but experts question whether invisible water…
Lenny's Product Pass expands to 34 products with the addition of 11 new tools including Runway, Higgsfield, Waking Up, Brain.fm, Customer.io, Resend, Pangram, Mercury Personal, Supercut, Readwise, and…