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MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI company founded by Yan Junjie, released Music 3 on August 13, 2026, an open-weights model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a production brief. The model u…
Microsoft is consolidating its Copilot apps into a single unified app that keeps the 'Microsoft Copilot' name with a refreshed icon, allowing users to switch between personal chat/image generation and Microsoft 365 work …
Generative video models still cannot match human creativity in pacing and timing, according to a practical guide for AI-assisted filmmaking. The article argues that AI tools like Claude Code and video generators serve as…
Suno released Studio 2.0 on August 13 for Premier subscribers, adding MIDI tracks, built-in synthesizers, audio effects, parameter automation, and a chat bar that can generate sounds, presets, and plugins. The update mov…
Higgsfield.ai launched the Higgsfield Global Film Festival, a $1,000,000 AI film contest, as announced on its website. The contest page uses Inter, -apple-system, and Space Grotesk fonts, with design details captured by …
HeyGen, an AI video generation platform, announced that its Avatar IV diffusion model, which runs on more than 18B parameters, is now 1.86× faster on Google Cloud's eight-chip Trillium (v6e) TPU host compared to its firs…
Suno released Studio 2.0, adding MIDI support, multitrack arrangement, and stem generation for up to 12 stems, positioning its platform as a 'Generative Audio Workstation' for music production. The update, available only…
Higgsfield.ai's pricing page for its AI video and image generator uses the Inter font, as captured by Fudge, a design analysis tool. The page details pricing plans for the AI video and image generation service, with the …
A corporate consultant observes that employees are increasingly using AI to generate written communications, and warns that this practice is making human workers redundant faster than management-led automation. The autho…
MiniMax-H3, a 33-billion-parameter open-weight video generation model from Chinese AI firm MiniMax, ranks first in the Video Edit Arena on arena.ai with 1390 points, 32 points ahead of Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Om…
ApplyWise, an AI-powered job application platform, launched tools that tailor CVs and cover letters to specific job descriptions, score them against applicant tracking systems (ATS), and rewrite AI-generated text to bypa…
Suno released Studio 2.0, adding MIDI support, automation, effects plugins, and a chatbot to its AI music generation tool, moving it closer to a digital audio workstation. The update includes a built-in synth, a suite of…
A Brennan Center for Justice study found that major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, consistently disputed election conspiracy theories when challenged, but half of their re…
Apple Inc. is in talks with publishers over multiyear content deals to provide its revamped Siri AI with access to current news, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The discussions come as Apple released the fifth de…
Facebook is being flooded with AI-generated videos of fake podcasters, such as 'The Male Insight' and 'Uncle George,' who dispense relationship advice criticizing men, with clips reaching up to 280,000 views. The content…
California's AI Transparency Act, passed as SB 942 and amended by AB 853, will require large generative AI providers with over one million monthly users in the state to embed provenance metadata in AI-generated content s…
Vercel has made its v0 API generally available, giving developers programmatic access to its AI-powered application-building agent. The API supports synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming requests, allows creation from…
Higgsfield's AI-generated film 'Cully Hill Boys' showcases the platform's Cinema Studio suite and Seedance 2.5, but its best elements come from human artists, including a script by Tim Planagan and visual inspiration fro…
Warner Bros.' sci-fi thriller 'The End of Oak Street,' starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, opens in theaters on Friday, August 14, and will not be available on Netflix, with streaming expected on HBO Max, where sub…
Google is expanding its 'Ask YouTube' conversational search experiment to the YouTube mobile app, adding an 'Ask' button to the search bar for signed-in users aged 13 and older. The feature, which debuted on desktop on A…