ByteDance halts the global launch of its AI video tool Seedance 2.0 after Hollywood studios, including Disney, fire off cease-and-desist letters over viral AI-generated clips depicting celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, forcing the TikTok parent company to overhaul its intellectual property safeguards before proceeding.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announces his resignation after 18 years at the helm, sending shares plunging 7% despite the company posting record-beating quarterly revenue of $6.40 billion and tripling its AI-driven product sales year over year.
OpenAI is integrating its Sora video generator directly into ChatGPT, sparking deepfake fears as the tool has already been used to create realistic fake videos of historical figures, while the move signals a competitive push against Anthropic's rapidly growing Claude platform.
Arm's technology, found in 99% of smartphones worldwide, is revolutionizing on-device AI by bringing real-time generative features like creative style transfer at 30 frames per second to mid-range and entry-level devices, with a TECNO collaboration and KleidiAI optimizations delivering 30% faster AI compute across all price ranges.
Google's NotebookLM launches Cinematic Video Overviews today, using Gemini, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3 AI models to generate immersive, personalized videos from user content, available exclusively to Google AI Ultra subscribers aged 18 and older.
Google launches Nano Banana 2, a powerful next-generation AI image model boasting 4K resolution, multilingual text rendering, and real-time web data integration across Gemini, Google Cloud, and Google Ads — but its web-sourced training data is raising copyright red flags for enterprises.
Google launches Nano Banana 2, a major upgrade to its viral AI image editing tool that brings Pro-level precision, Gemini 3 world knowledge, 4K resolution support, and automatic AI watermarking to all Gemini users for free.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …
DuckDuckGo launches free AI image editing on Duck.ai, letting users upload and edit images via text prompts powered by OpenAI, with privacy protections that strip metadata and IP addresses before processing — no account required.
OpenAI recruits Instagram's former partnerships chief Charles Porch to spearhead Hollywood relations as the company pushes its AI video tool Sora into entertainment deals, following a massive $1 billion Disney licensing agreement while the industry remains wary of AI threats to jobs and creative content.