Hollywood talent agencies consider signing AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood from studio Xicoia, sparking fierce backlash from prominent actors like Melissa Barrera who threaten boycotts against agencies representing digital performers as the entertainment industry grapples with artificial intelligence's growing presence in film, TV, and gaming.
Tencent launches HunyuanImage-3.0, the world's largest open-source AI image generator with 80 billion parameters and revolutionary autoregressive architecture, featuring 64 experts in a Mixture of Experts design that delivers superior text-to-image generation with advanced world-knowledge reasoning capabilities.
Hugging Face releases Smol2Operator, an open-source system that transforms a basic 2.2B vision model into a powerful GUI coding agent capable of understanding and interacting with mobile, desktop, and web interfaces through innovative two-phase training.
Meta unveils 'Vibes,' an AI-powered video platform delivering endless streams of music video-style clips featuring pets and landscapes, but users slam it as an 'infinite slop machine' that prioritizes technical polish over meaningful storytelling in Zuckerberg's quest to create an MTV-like scrolling experience.
Companies scramble to address a human skills crisis as AI integration makes creativity and collaboration more critical than ever, yet only 35% offer development programs while breakthrough AI-powered tutoring delivers personalized learning 32% better and 23% faster than traditional training methods.
OpenAI releases GPT-5-Codex, a specialized AI that achieves 51% accuracy on code refactoring tasks and operates autonomously for over seven hours, dramatically outperforming standard GPT-5 while using 94% fewer tokens on simple coding requests.
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Pulse, a groundbreaking feature that works overnight to deliver personalized daily briefings by analyzing users' chat history and connected apps, currently available exclusively to Pro subscribers on mobile with Google Calendar integration for enhanced meeting preparation and scheduling assistance.
Spotify removes 75 million spam tracks in 12 months and introduces new AI disclosure requirements for music, partnering with 15 record labels to combat AI-generated content problems including artist impersonation and lack of transparency.
Meta hires former OpenAI strategic explorations leader Yang Song as research principal following Zuckerberg's aggressive summer recruitment of 11 top AI researchers from rival companies, even as several scientists simultaneously exit Meta's Superintelligence Labs for competitors.
Major AI companies including OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI face multiple copyright lawsuits across U.S. courts as publishers, artists, and content creators demand damages for allegedly using their copyrighted materials without permission to train generative AI models, with trials extending into 2027.