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In-house legal teams are increasingly adopting AI tools to streamline operations and reduce costs, according to a Financial Times Technology series. The report highlights how legal departments are using generative AI for…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert its pages into markdown and generate agent ads formatted …
Researchers introduce WildShadowRemover, a framework that adapts a pretrained video diffusion model via LoRA fine-tuning for robust video shadow removal in unconstrained real-world scenarios. The method augments the froz…
Researchers introduce LumaGuide, a training-free framework that shapes output distributions of pretrained diffusion models to generate high dynamic range (HDR) content without retraining. By steering the sampling process…
A new study from arXiv proposes a zero-shot detection pipeline to characterize human-likeness in AI-generated poetry, finding that GenAI poems are the most difficult to distinguish even without modification. The research…
Sungkyunkwan University and the University of Toronto co-hosted the 2026 Seoul Forum on AI and University on Monday to discuss the role of universities in the AI era. Professor emeritus Myaeng Sung-hyon of the Korea Adva…
A growing body of evidence suggests that new coding large language models (LLMs) are training on synthetic data generated by earlier AI models, creating a feedback loop that degrades output quality. Researchers are adopt…
ByteDance's Seedance AI model is enabling Chinese studios to produce comic dramas in weeks instead of months, cutting costs to as low as 25,000 yuan per 80-minute project, according to Zhou Xiangxiang, founder of a Shenz…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced on the company's earnings call Wednesday that Microsoft will soon release a super app combining its Copilot AI assistant experiences, including coding, chat, coworking tools, and aut…
Textideo launched an AI Facebook Ad Video Generator that turns product images, text prompts, and ideas into professional video ads in minutes, requiring no editing skills or production teams. The tool helps marketers cre…
A study by the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education, published in March 2026, found that generative-AI toys like Curio's Gabbo fail to engage in pretend play with children, instead declining invitations to part…
Google Labs screened short films from its Flow Sessions artist residency at New York's Metrograph theater on Wednesday, aiming to counter the narrative that all AI-generated content is 'slop.' The 11 resident artists use…
Val Town's July 2026 community roundup highlights user-built vals, including Mitch Jacovetty's three-headed hydra experiment, Vincent Termini's AI-slop linter, and Paul Chin Jr.'s lava lamp fluid simulation. Paul Chin Jr…
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports MiniMax H3, a model that generates 2K video from text prompts, images, keyframes, or reference material including images, video, and audio. The model outputs mp4 at 2K resolution, 5 to 15…
MuseGen Team's July 30, 2026 analysis concludes that AI music tools like MuseGen cannot yet fully replace Epidemic Sound, as libraries retain advantages in sound effects, browsing finished work, and batch consistency, wh…
A hands-on test pitted open-weight Kimi K3 against Claude Opus 5 on generating a fully explorable 3D world from a single reference image using the Klein agent harness. Opus 5 produced a more polished result with better p…
A new pedagogical approach called the Generative AI Studio, developed by Laura Zarrow at the University of Pennsylvania, treats generative AI as a creative medium rather than a tool, using art and design education method…
A developer argues that technical writing must offer real depth and experience to survive the era of AI-generated content. The post advises writers to lead with specific incidents and painful trade-offs rather than gener…
A report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues that AI-generated speech should be protected under the First Amendment, citing Supreme Court precedent extending free speech protections to new technologies. A…
A coalition of record labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music proposed new guidelines on Wednesday requiring AI-generated tracks to be "substantially human made" and use authorized serv…