AI video company Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from investors including General Atlantic, Nvidia, and Adobe to develop revolutionary 'world models' technology that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
Consumer Technology Association CEO Gary Shapiro announces his retirement after 35 years leading the organization behind CES, with current president Kinsey Fabrizio set to take over leadership in May 2026 while Shapiro transitions to executive chair.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.
Meta launches standalone Vibes app featuring exclusively AI-generated videos in TikTok-style format, directly challenging OpenAI's Sora while planning premium subscriptions for enhanced video creation capabilities.
Roblox launches revolutionary 4D generation technology that transforms text prompts into fully functional game objects like drivable cars, with early testing showing players created 160,000 objects and experienced 64% longer play sessions.
Deezer launches commercial AI detection tool that identifies fake music with 99.8% accuracy after catching 13.4 million AI-generated tracks, as fraudulent uploads now comprise 39% of daily submissions with 85% attempting to steal artist royalties.
OpenAI's Sora video app crashes with downloads plummeting 45% in January and consumer spending dropping 32% as copyright controversies and fierce competition from Google's Gemini and Meta AI send the once-promising platform tumbling from top charts to No. 101 on App Store.
Music publishers escalate their legal battle against Anthropic with a massive $3 billion lawsuit over 20,000 song copyright violations, while Deezer's new AI detection tool identifies 13.4 million generated tracks with 99.8% accuracy amid growing industry tensions over artificial intelligence's role in music creation.
Groundbreaking AI-animated short film 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors' premieres at Sundance, utilizing custom Google DeepMind technology that transforms rough animator sketches into polished painterly scenes through fine-tuned Veo and Imagen models, marking a revolutionary collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence in filmmaking.
Chinese tech giant Kuaishou's Kling AI video platform explodes to 12 million users in just six months, generating $240 million in revenue while directly challenging Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora in the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence video generation market.