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Elon Musk said his AI platform Grok Imagine will create a full-length, historically accurate movie of Homer's 'The Odyssey' before the end of the year, criticizing Christopher Nolan's casting choices for his own film ada…
Business Insider has identified 22 VC firms actively funding social media startups, with AI driving down development costs and enabling new consumer apps. PitchBook data shows social startup deals peaked at 239 in 2021 b…
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that generates video with native audio for up to 20 seconds, a first for the company. The model outperforms Seedance 2.0 in internal tests, and the company…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed in a shareholder letter that the streaming giant has used AI to enhance 300 titles, including 17 minutes of AI-modified footage in the docuseries "The American Experiment" that was pr…
Alphabet said the Gemini app reached 950 million monthly active users, up from more than 750 million in February and more than 450 million a year earlier. The company disclosed the figure during its second-quarter earnin…
Microsoft AI on July 23rd 2026 launched public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, two purpose-built generative models trained on enterprise-grade data. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is priced at $5 per 1M text inpu…
Director Neill Blomkamp announced 'NIGHTBORNE,' his first full test AI film made using the Chinese model Seedance 2.0, and launched Barley Studios, an AI film studio. The announcement has been widely criticized, with out…
Microsoft's Mage-Flow image generation model, with only 4 billion parameters, outperforms larger models including FLUX.2-dev (32B) and Qwen-Image (20B) on GenEval benchmarks, scoring 0.88 against their 0.87. The model ac…
A developer built omni-skill-claude, a Claude Code skill that wraps Google's gemini-omni-flash-preview model in a FastMCP server, enabling stateful video editing from the terminal. The skill leverages Gemini's Interactio…
A single indie developer released CamFilterGpu, a zero-lag, GPU-accelerated video filter app with RVM-AI segmentation, background removal, and custom filter pipelines, priced at $2.45/month after a 14-day free beta. The …
Runway launched Runway Media Router, a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model based on a developer's priorities for quality, speed, or cost, marking the first model router built …
Reddit shares fell about 9% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has discussed cutting off Google's access to its content for AI, as its $60 million annual deal with Google nears expiration and referral tra…
A blogger argues that AI-generated signs and posters are aesthetically repulsive and far uglier than naive human design, urging small businesses and organizations to trust their own creative abilities rather than using A…
Black Forest Labs (BFL) launched FLUX 3, a multimodal AI model that generates 20-second videos with synchronized audio, processes images, and predicts actions for robotics, with early access beginning July 23. The $3.25 …
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a single model that collapses image generation, video generation, and robot control into one unified system. The company claims the model can handle all three modalities without separat…
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 on July 23rd, 2026, extending its image-generation technology into video with native audio and using the same model architecture to predict actions for robots. The model, built around a …
A developer has deployed a Gemini Interactions API server that maintains visual context across image edits using an interaction_id, enabling iterative refinement without re-describing the entire scene. The FastMCP server…
A new report from Common Sense Media found that 44% of U.S. teens have seen AI-generated sexual content, and nearly a quarter of those have seen content depicting themselves or peers. Bay Area lawmakers, including State …
Open-artifact, a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Claude Artifacts, enables users to view, store, and share LLM-generated Markdown docs and HTML artifacts across any provider. The tool allows deployment on persona…
A developer demonstrates how to perform real-time video face swaps in a browser using Vivify Realtime Face Swap. The tool requires a reference portrait and a webcam, processing live frames with AI to map expressions and …