Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, the company disclosed in a federal filing. The deal, completed in March, brings aboard InterPositive's 16-person te…
Bollywood star Jacqueline Fernandez is launching an AI-powered digital avatar, built by Galleri5 – Collective Artists Network's in-house AI studio, that gives audiences access to her personal book rec…
Netflix revealed in its second-quarter earnings report that roughly 300 programs across its library used generative AI in production this year, spanning concept to release. The company cited titles li…
The Raindance Film Festival has partnered with Israeli AI creative development platform IMGN to launch a £10,000 ($13,394) film fund and a dedicated development hub for independent filmmakers, announc…
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy criticized AI-generated characters in cinema during a Q&A at BFI Southbank on July 15, following the U.K. premiere of the 4K restoration of her film "In Which…
A hacker obtained Suno's source code and customer data, revealing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its models, according to a 404 Media …
Animator Jorge Gutiérrez backed out of Amazon MGM Studios' AI-generated series "Punky Duck" within 36 hours of its announcement after receiving death threats and having his home address published onli…
Ten filmmakers unveiled AI-native short films at the Raindance Film Festival in London, produced by Moonmax and built entirely on CapCut Video Studio in a 10-film series called 'Lost Canon.' The initi…
George Lucas said AI makes filmmaking 'easier' and 'there's nothing you can do about it,' while criticizing Hollywood for giving fans too much power through focus groups. The 'Star Wars' creator told …
Fountain 0 and director Ash Koosha, known for the AI-generated docu-drama 'Dreams of Violets,' are releasing 'Odysseus: The Fall,' a 135-minute AI-generated movie based on Homer's epic, available to r…
A new Edison Research at SSRS study commissioned by AI audiobook company Spoken found that 61% of fiction audiobook listeners rated Spoken's AI-generated Multi-Cast production favorably, compared with…
Christopher Nolan rejects Matt Damon's 'defeatist' view that their film 'The Odyssey' is the last of its kind, arguing that cinema continues to transform with new voices. Nolan also criticizes 'AI slo…
Andy Serkis, currently directing and starring in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' for Warner Bros. (release 2027), said his animated 'Animal Farm' adaptation sparked U.S. 'outrage' over pe…
Meta suspended an AI image feature that let users generate images by tagging public Instagram accounts, following backlash from talent agencies and performers over its opt-out policy. The feature, int…
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actor created by Particle 6, is set to star in the feature film "Misaligned," sparking backlash from Hollywood unions and performers who allege the AI was trained on hum…
The RIAA, Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and other music industry groups launched a new labeling program to indicate whether a song is AI-generated or AI-assisted, aiming to provide transparency for fans on strea…
Meta's new Muse Image model allows anyone to use public Instagram photos in AI-generated images without consent, prompting SAG-AFTRA to urge users to opt out. The feature, which is enabled by default,…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment and the company's No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role to focus on recovery from a chronic illness. She will transition to a part-time r…
Google India and Sony Pictures Networks India are integrating Google Gemini into the new season of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', India's version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?', hosted by Amitabh Bachc…
The New York Times and other news outlets filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of lying about its ability to search training datasets and output logs during discovery i…