Google's Flow Sessions program unveils short films blending real actors with AI-generated worlds, revealing both the creative acceleration AI offers filmmakers and the ethical tensions surrounding non-consenting artists whose work may have trained the models powering it.
Google wraps its fourth Flow Sessions cohort, unveiling AI-powered short films created by artists who spent six weeks collaborating with Google Flow, the tech giant's generative AI creative studio.
Google launches Lyria 3.5, its most advanced music AI model yet, bringing smarter lyrics, emotionally expressive vocals, richer melodies, and greater creative control over tempo and duration to Google Flow Music.
Google launches a groundbreaking AI Search feature in the U.S. that lets users shop, design, and stream through connected apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music — all without ever leaving their search results.
Roblox launches 'Build,' a mobile-first AI tab that lets anyone create fully functional games from simple text prompts, with a public alpha rolling out July 28 in New Zealand.
Spotify launches a new AI chat feature allowing eligible Premium users in the U.S., Ireland, and Sweden to control playback, discover music, and get real-time song information through typed or spoken conversation directly within the app.
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' a surreal coming-of-age story developed by U.K. studio Particle6, sparking fierce backlash from SAG-AFTRA, which accuses the technology of using stolen performances to displace human actors.
The US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models, Google DeepMind partners with A24 in a landmark filmmaking-AI collaboration, and Tencent unleashes a massive 295-billion-parameter open-source model as US-China AI rivalry intensifies.
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs — about 2.1% of its global workforce — hitting gaming and commercial divisions hardest, as the tech giant reshapes operations amid an AI-driven transformation that is fundamentally changing how work gets done.
Luma COO Caroline Ingeborn declares that true AGI demands omnimodal AI systems capable of processing text, video, images, and audio simultaneously, as the company sets its sights on revolutionizing creative industries while insisting the technology will empower — not replace — human creativity.