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.
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.