Machine-learning practitioner Enze Xie unveiled SANA-Video 2.0 on July 24, 2026, a full-stack optimized video model designed for efficiency and high quality. The system uses a hybrid attention archite…
OpenAI retired ChatGPT Atlas on July 9, 2026, just nine months after its launch as a standalone AI browser, with the product ceasing to function on August 9 and its browsing capabilities being folded …
Tyler Perry is partnering with Synapse Virtual Production to convert an existing Tyler Perry Studios stage into a virtual production soundstage in Atlanta, using LED volume walls, advanced camera trac…
Elon Musk announced plans to produce an AI-generated film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey using his xAI company's Grok Imagine tool, challenging Christopher Nolan's blockbuster version which he accu…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup co-founded by Ben Affleck, according to the streamer's Q2 2026 Form 10-Q filed July 17. The 16-person team was abs…
A developer team tested the newly released open-source LTX Desktop app by Lightricks, which allows users to run the LTX-2.3 video model locally on their own computers with zero usage costs. The review…
OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora, the generative AI tool that production company Native Foreign was using to make the feature film *Critterz*, according to director and chief creative officer Nik Klever…
Decart AI released Lucy 2.5, an AI model that edits video frames in real time during live streams with sub-40ms latency at 30 FPS. The model uses techniques like MXFP8/NVFP4 quantization and dynamic s…
OpenAI's plan to launch a humanlike rechargeable smart speaker in 2026 enters a declining market, with IDC data showing smart speaker shipments fell 16.3% in 2023, 11.8% in 2024, and an estimated 9.6%…
A multi-agent AI video generation workflow can turn a single topic prompt into a scripted, voiced, and edited video in minutes, according to a guide that assigns dedicated AI agents to writing, voiceo…
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, …
Meta and Alphabet were found culpable for teen addiction related to social media algorithm designs, while Meta wound down Horizon Worlds after a $70 billion-plus VR bet and OpenAI shuttered Sora at an…
OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser Atlas, launched in October 2025, after nine months due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, slow performance, and legal issues. The browser's agent mode failed to d…
Meta launched an AI feature, Muse Image, that generated images from public Instagram posts, but removed it after three days following backlash over privacy and deepfake concerns. SAG-AFTRA and Creativ…
OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas browser, launched in October 2025, after less than eight months, folding its features into an updated Chrome extension that integrates ChatGPT into the browser's side…
OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas AI-powered web browser less than nine months after launch, with a deprecation date of August 9, 2026. The move is part of a broader consolidation around core …
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…