Meta released an AI image generator called Muse Image that can pull photos from public Instagram accounts to generate images of users without their explicit permission, defaulting to opt-in for public…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model that accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs and supports 180-second beta video generation with multilingual creation. The model, dev…
Kling AI, a Chinese generative AI startup, raised $3 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent among the backers, according to a report. The company is developing a riva…
OpenMontage, an open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 52 tools, has surpassed 31,000 stars on GitHub. The system automates the entire video creation workflow from script to…
CNET updated its list of best AI video generators for 2026 after OpenAI discontinued Sora. Adobe Firefly, Google Veo 3, Runway, and Midjourney are top picks, with Firefly offering commercially safe co…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video generation model capable of producing 30-second clips at 4K resolution with up to 50 multimodal references, setting a new benchmark for long-form AI video.…
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5, a text-to-video model with 4K output and 30-second clips, alongside the Volcano Arc IP licensing platform that lets creators use licensed film assets with revenue shar…
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 Singaporean man, identified as Luke, discovered that a former schoolmate had been using AI to fabricate images of them as a couple, including fake pregnancy and baby photos, for years. The stalker p…
Chinese physical AI start-up Fysics AI launched Fysiverse, a physics-based world model that embeds real-world physical laws into its code, diverging from data-driven approaches used by OpenAI and Meta…
A24 announced a $75 million research partnership with Google's DeepMind to develop AI filmmaking tools, sparking backlash from fans who see the move as hypocritical given the studio's hit film 'Backro…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, a video generation model that produces 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 multimodal reference inputs. The company skipped four version …
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 i…
Elon Musk's xAI plans to produce a full-length AI-generated movie by the end of 2026, starting with an Alice in Wonderland demo. The company's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model, launched in June 2026, can …
Google researchers published a paper introducing S-CTS, a two-stage machine learning system that detects and terminates coordinated networks of AI-generated spam on video platforms by identifying clus…
Google researchers published a paper detailing a new system, the Scalable Cluster Termination System (S-CTS), designed to detect coordinated generative AI spam by analyzing organizational attack struc…
AI tools like Midjourney and Sora are breaking down Chinese opera into datasets for generative models, enabling users to create opera-style content with simple prompts. This digitization, accelerated …
AI company LTX released LTX Trainer, a framework enabling users to create custom AI video models trained on their own data without extensive coding. The tool, available on GitHub, allows filmmakers an…
Text-to-video AI has matured from experimental clips to hyper-realistic cinematic content, driven by a shift from U-Net to Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures. DiT offers linear scalability with…
OpenAI has appointed Thibault Sottiaux as head of core products, putting him in charge of transforming ChatGPT into a personalized "super app" that handles tasks across users' personal and professiona…