The Motion Picture Association strikes its first-ever copyright deal with an AI company, reaching a landmark agreement with ByteDance to enforce stronger intellectual property protections in its AI video tool Seedance and image tool Seedream, following allegations that the tools were trained on copyrighted material and generating unauthorized content featuring …
AI video and image platform Higgsfield raises $400M in a Series B round, skyrocketing to a $5.4B valuation — quadrupling its worth in just eight months — as it reports $700M in annualized revenue, 30 million users, and partnerships with 390 Fortune 500 companies.
Alibaba's new Qwen 3.8 27B vision AI model runs on consumer laptops as a 17GB file, delivering impressive code generation and image analysis capabilities, but its default 'xhigh' reasoning setting causes excessive overthinking on simple tasks, and speed remains limited at 15–30 tokens per second — though a 72% boost …
A new open-source benchmarking tool, Talkify Latency Bench, exposes dramatic speed differences between macOS speech-to-text engines, with Talkify leading at just 123ms and MacWhisper lagging nearly 10x slower at 1149ms across 20 measured trials.
A new open-source tool called 'watermarks-remover' is surging on GitHub with 4.8k stars, offering developers the ability to strip AI watermarks from text and images across multiple file formats — but creators warn it's best-effort only, lossy on statistical watermarks, and intended for legitimate privacy use, not fraudulent claims of …
Google unveils the Pixel 11 at its Made by Google event, introducing AI-powered features like Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photo mode, and multi-step task execution, while strategically avoiding the 'AI' label and rebranding Android as an 'intelligence system' to shift smartphones toward goal-oriented interactions.
Google launches the Pixel 11 lineup starting at $899, bringing powerful Gemini AI capable of handling multistep tasks across 40+ apps and major camera upgrades including Magic Capture and faster Night Sight, with retail availability beginning August 20.
A powerful new open-source inference engine called h3.c now enables native AI video generation on Apple Silicon Macs, slashing render times nearly in half using Metal GPU acceleration and cutting memory usage from 36.5 GiB to just 2 GiB.
QwenLM launches Qwen-MM-Plugins, an open-source plugin system that gives any AI agent powerful multimodal capabilities — including image, video, audio, and document understanding — with modular tools supporting 3D modeling, web search, video editing, and more, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
Google's Pixel phones are pushing AI photography to unprecedented limits, with generative AI solving once-impossible challenges like low-light and zoom quality, but as features like sky replacement and adding absent people to photos emerge ahead of the Pixel 11 launch, a provocative question looms: at what point does AI-enhanced photography …