China's streaming giant iQiyi predicts AI will produce most of its content within five years, launching the Nadou Pro suite — a powerful AI filmmaking toolkit covering everything from scriptwriting to final rendering — as the company undergoes its biggest transformation since its 2010 founding.
Voice actors worldwide are fighting back against Hollywood studios and AI companies rapidly replacing human performers with AI-generated voices, threatening over 2 million jobs and stripping non-English-speaking nations of cultural identity, as a stark economic divide emerges between those profiting from AI licensing and those facing unauthorized voice theft with …
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI clone of himself trained on his voice, image, and mannerisms so employees can interact with him directly, while Meta eyes expanding the technology to creators looking to engage their followers at scale.
Meta's AI app rockets to No. 6 on the US Apple App Store with an 87% download surge after the debut of Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the AI app landscape heats up with four of the top six free apps now AI-driven.
Spotify is rolling out AI-powered playlist generation for podcasts, letting premium users in select markets build personalized podcast feeds using natural language prompts, with customizable update schedules and AI-generated explanations for each recommendation.
Google launches free AI avatars, Veo 3.1 video generation, and AI music tools in Google Vids just as OpenAI shuts down Sora, positioning itself as the dominant force in AI video creation for both consumers and enterprise users.
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite at just 5 cents per second, dramatically undercutting competitors in the AI video market as OpenAI simultaneously retreats by scrapping its Sora model and abandoning a $1 billion Disney deal.
Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, its most affordable AI video generation model yet, offering developers Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video capabilities at less than 50% of the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast, with support for 720p and 1080p resolutions and flexible durations, available now through the Gemini API.
OpenAI launches enterprise-focused Codex plugins integrating Google Drive, GitHub, and Slack, while simultaneously shutting down Sora, ending its $1 billion Disney deal, and pausing adult content plans as the company aggressively pivots toward IPO readiness and a 50-50 consumer-to-enterprise revenue split.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app after just five months, triggering Disney to pull a $1 billion licensing deal as the entertainment giant's AI strategy hangs in uncertainty under new CEO Josh D'Amaro.