Generative AI

A24, the independent film studio behind 'Backrooms,' has accepted a $75 million investment from Google to develop AI tools for storyboarding and filmmaking through a new initiative called A24Labs. The partnership aims to…

Google invests approximately $75 million in independent film studio A24, marking its first direct stake in a film studio. Under the agreement, A24 will collaborate with Google DeepMind to develop and test AI tools for fi…

Getty Images shares surged 124% after announcing a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to license its image library for AI training and integrate OpenAI's generative AI tools into its products. The deal follows Getty's ea…

Guest support platform Host & Guest Fix+ founder Daniel Bell explains how short-term rental hosts can use AI to create host-approved troubleshooting guides, reducing out-of-hours interruptions. The AI drafts property-spe…

Eco Wave Power, an NVIDIA Inception member, uses NVIDIA AI infrastructure and digital twins to convert ocean wave energy into clean electricity. The technology leverages existing marine structures and AI-driven optimizat…

Newsletter writers are increasingly offering personal ads to connect like-minded readers, creating a hyperlocal dating trend. John Fulton's Eastside Rag in Los Angeles and other Substack authors like Miranda July and Ava…

OpenAI signed a multi-year partnership with Getty Images to display licensed visual content in ChatGPT and AI search results. The deal follows Getty's earlier agreement with Perplexity AI and marks a shift from its previ…

AI agents are transforming enterprise applications from passive transaction systems into active decision and coordination platforms, moving beyond simple automation to embed intelligence directly into operational workflo…

AI is transforming marketing, elevating chief marketing officers to some of the most powerful executives in business as they take on growth, technology, data, and AI strategy. A Boston Consulting Group survey found 90% o…

European retail association EuroCommerce has asked EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt some AI-generated advertisements from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that ads not intended to mislead users, such as…

Getty Images shares surged approximately 160% in Monday trading after announcing a licensing agreement with OpenAI. The deal will allow Getty's images to appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features. The stock had f…

Lenovo is partnering with FIFA to power AI and technology solutions for the FIFA World Cup 2026, including FIFA AI Pro for match analysis, an Intelligent Command Center for operations, and AI-powered avatars for officiat…

Cory Doctorow argues in a new book and podcast interview that the AI boom is driven by unsustainable hype and power dynamics that benefit bosses at the expense of workers, coining the term "enshittification" to describe …

AI-generated websites, deepfake videos, and convincing phishing campaigns are making World Cup scams harder to spot ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Over 13,000 FIFA-themed domains were registered between January and Ma…

Diffusion Language Models (dLLMs) offer a faster alternative to autoregressive LLMs by generating multiple tokens in parallel, but face consistency challenges. Recent innovations like DFlash, DiffusionGemma, and Nemotron…

A developer who built a Swift tutorial series and a mascot generator app with Google AI Studio in the same week found that each workflow builds a different kind of understanding. Writing Swift line by line sharpens mecha…

A developer built Reconalyst, an AI-powered tool that generates company intelligence reports in about 20 seconds by pasting a company URL, aiming to streamline research for job interviews and applications. The MVP uses N…

Samba, a media-measurement company, acquired GenAI ad platform Bestever AI to advance agentic advertising. Bestever founder Apoorva Govind will join Samba as Director of Product. The deal combines Samba's first-party dat…

The AI Warning for Steam browser plugin has been updated to add Steam search filtering, allowing users to blur or hide games that use generative AI. The plugin, previously a script, now provides an unmissable pop-up and …

Researchers introduced Reflective Masking (RM), a post-training method that enables Mask Diffusion Models to iteratively revise their own outputs by re-masking uncertain tokens and remembering previous attempts. Tested o…