LEGO launches groundbreaking SMART Play platform in March 2026, featuring intelligent bricks with over twenty patented technologies that make Star Wars creations respond with realistic sounds and character interactions without requiring any screens.
Revolutionary AI-powered virtual pet Sweekar debuts at CES 2026, physically growing larger through life stages from egg to adult over months of care, launching on Kickstarter for $150 as the high-tech successor to the beloved 1990s Tamagotchi.
Developer Rodrigo Delduca successfully creates a functional NES emulator using AI-generated Lua scripts that runs Donkey Kong in web browsers, though the groundbreaking AI-coded system performs 40 times slower than traditional emulators.
Disney partners with Meta to bring AI smart glasses to Disneyland, offering visitors ride information and wait times, as tech giants including Google, Samsung, Amazon and Apple race to launch competing AI glasses despite sluggish market adoption with only 2-3 million units sold globally.
Lemon Slice secures $10.5 million in seed funding to launch its groundbreaking 20-billion-parameter AI model that transforms single photos into real-time digital avatars capable of livestreaming at 20 fps, challenging industry giants like D-ID and HeyGen in the rapidly expanding digital avatar market.
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio channels with over 2 million combined subscribers for creating AI-generated fake movie trailers that deceived viewers, while major Hollywood studios including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony secretly profited from the misleading content by collecting ad revenue instead of protecting their copyrights.
Adobe Firefly revolutionizes video editing by launching text-command capabilities that modify specific video elements without recreating entire clips, while integrating powerful third-party AI models including Runway's Aleph and offering unlimited generations to subscribers through 2026.
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses iconic Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel characters for the Sora AI video generator, marking Hollywood's major embrace of artificial intelligence technology with fan-requested content launching in early 2026 on Disney+.
Disney fires cease-and-desist letter at Google, accusing the tech giant of running a 'virtual vending machine' that mass-produces unauthorized AI images of beloved Frozen, Star Wars, and Marvel characters through its systems, escalating a major copyright battle between entertainment and artificial intelligence industries.
Disney CEO Bob Iger defends the company's OpenAI partnership that grants exclusive access to 200 Disney characters through the Sora platform while excluding voices and likenesses to respect creators, as he simultaneously calls for regulatory scrutiny of Netflix's proposed Warner Bros. acquisition.