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.
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 dominates the Text-to-Image Arena leaderboard with a record Elo score of 1385, defeating 71 rival models across 5.6 million community votes, with Meta and Reve claiming second and third place respectively.
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.
NVIDIA-backed Luma AI reaches a $4 billion valuation after securing $900 million in Series C funding led by Saudi-owned Humain, and is now expanding to London with 200 new hires as its Ray3 world model reportedly outperforms OpenAI's Sora and rivals Google's Veo 3.
China's Kling AI, a Kuaishou spinoff valued at $15 billion, raises $2 billion in venture capital and reports explosive 300% year-over-year revenue growth, hitting $500 million in annual recurring revenue as the global AI video race intensifies.
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, delivering lightning-fast, low-cost AI image and video generation for developers and consumers, with images produced in just 4 seconds and video output available at $0.10 per second.
Google's Gemini Omni Flash leads a fiercely competitive Text-to-Video AI leaderboard with a top score of 1527, but Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba are closing the gap fast, claiming second and third place respectively among 41 competing models.
Figma unveils a powerful suite of AI-driven design tools at its Config event, targeting full team collaboration across the design-to-development pipeline — with CEO Dylan Field emphasizing that human creativity remains at the center, while AI handles the repetitive work.
A Washington Post test reveals major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Grok, and even models marketed as conservative, display left-leaning political bias in responses, with Google's Gemini standing alone as the only model consistently offering balanced perspectives — a troubling finding as nearly half of Americans now turn to AI for …
Cloudflare and beehiiv are teaming up to give 135,000 independent publishers a simple dashboard toggle to block or allow AI crawlers from accessing their content, offering real-time visibility into which bots are knocking and how much referral traffic they return.